Bristol New Wave Short Brief

New Wave Brief

After studying the Italian Neorealism new wave cinema movement, I have been inspired to create my own new wave film. After studying three of Roberto Rossellini's films I have decided to do my new wave film on everyday life but focusing on groups, this is paying homage to Rossellini because for his neorealism trinity he would place a camera into a busy square or a high traffic area and then chose his actors through their expressions and inquisitive looks into the camera. My new wave is going to take place in Bristol, I am going to take a number of shots of my group travelling to Bristol, some shots of Bristol and then some shots of the city itself. My film is going to be roughly around 2 to 3 minutes long and is going to follow a non-linear narrative of a kind of fly on the wall style documentary about Bristol.

In my short film I plan to use a poem over the top of the sequence so that it is being recited over the top of it, Rossellini referenced apoem in Francesco Giullare Di Dio (The Flowers of St. Francis). I have chosen to film in long takes, using only handheld, this is to create a more realistic sense of film and makes it seems more rough and new wave. My lighting will be natural lighting and I will rely heavily on the natural lighting of the area, I hope to recreate a sense of realism in my films and using natural lighting will help this. I plan to use a lot of pictures in my film and possibly overlap or featuring them within the film. This is to create a snapshot of each area and to give it a new wave vibe.

I am going to edit my film quite smoothly and make it so that it is continue without any jump cuts. This is to create a flow throughout the film. I want my video to have a flow because it makes viewing it more pleasurable and it goes against modern cinema because it involves very little editing, something that cinema relies heavily on. I plan on using a couple of shots over and over again to focus on their significance.

My main video technique is the overlaying of the pictures of Bristol that I have taken and overlapping that with footage of the journey to bristol, this is to create two perspectives and to create a unconventional image, the use of pictures creates a snapshot of an image and allows me to present more images and places within the film itself, this paired with the use of a poem as non-diegetic sound will create an immersing experience of a new wave film that encourages the viewer to delve deeper into the art of the new wave.

My choice of new wave is Italian Neorealism that came about after the fall of Mussolini and his government, due to the end of the facist regime, the film industry that was funded to make propaganda collapsed once the funding stopped, the film industry within Italy lost its epicentre, film-makers like Roberto Rossellini wanted to give something new and present, a true reflection and image of italy after the damage of Mussolini and his government. Poverty, famine, oppression, injustice and desperation became common themes in the films. For Example Stromboli by Rossellini is a film about a woman who escapes an internment camp by marrying an Italian POW and tells a story about a small Italian town and its conservative harsh views against a foreign woman and how the town has become bitter after the war.