HNC Creative Media

Kill Us All- a Montage of Youth Evaluation: In evaluation, I feel that my film adequately conveys features of New Wave production; I was particularly inspired by the first scene of ' Easy Rider'(Dennis Hopper, 1969), and the idea of a road film. In my film, I wanted to show the youth of Britain today in a different and much more inclusive light, with the intention of displaying that contrary to media headlines and common opinions, that today's youth are curious, interesting and active; in order to do this, I decided to shoot BMX riders in a skate park, on an urban exploration trip and whilst I was out with my friends. In my first shot, I used my iPhone 7 camera to film in homage to hand held film cameras such as the Bolex 16mm and the Arriflex 35-BL that were commonly used in the American New Wave by directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Dennis Hopper and Martin Scoursese in their lower budget production. Although this created camera shake due to not being ab...

The Development of Editing Techniques The birth of cinema... Auguste and Louis Lumiere were "pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion picture camera and projector called the Cinematographe" ( Editors of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 2013) Early Editing...   The first editing technique to come into play in the world of cinema was cutting; before cutting directors would film in one continuous shot with no editing. "Cutting is so fundamental to the medium that it began to emerge relatively quickly" ( filmreference.com). Cutting became more widely used when directors and audiences alike desired for longer films became higher and there was only a small amount of magazine a film camera could hold. Being able to cut scenes allowed for a longer and more complex narrative "by assembling a series of scenes, with each scene filmed in a single shot" ( filmreference.com). In the 1900s cutting was achieved by actual...

New Wave Film Brief I plan on creating a new wave film, focussing on the effect that Brexit is having on the working class in the UK. My film will be two to three minutes long and the narrative of my film will follow the story of a woman, representative of Britain, dancing with the devil of the Conservative Government. I intend to shoot footage in an interview style with my peers, asking for their opinions on the current political climate and the government which I will then edit in a jump- cut manner with stock footage from political sources to demonstrate the swiftly darkening opinion of the 'tory' party in the youth in Britain. Further to this, I intend to make a statement within my film, insinuating the demise of the UK at the hands of our Government; in order to do this I intend to use low-key lighting in a dimly lit room, personifying Britain in the character of a woman  and I will shoot Britain dancing with the devil, using edge lighting and rembrandt lighting to gi...

A Contextual Study Exploring the American New Wave from 1969-1987       This writing explores the American Cinematic New Wave from the period of 1969-1987, taking into consideration social, moral and political influences on cinema and upcoming directors. I will investigate the flourish of a fresh creative freedom that the new wave brought to America, allowing a generation of passionate filmmakers to break through the boundaries of traditional Hollywood films. Works such as ' Easy Rider'  ( Dennis Hopper, 196 ), ' Taxi Driver' (Martin  Scoursese , 1976',  and  'Full Metal Jacket' (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)  embodied the raw self- awareness and evident rule breaking of new wave cinema, with a determination to shatter studio censorship within films and to present their audiences with a different, more cynical and critical perspective on the societies which they portrayed.    The Second World War altered Hollywood productions t...