Saturday, September 18, 2010

STYLES

Auteur – The word Auteur is used to describe film makers as well directors, producers and writers. Directors who have a status of an Auteur are supported by published studies of their body and work.


Cinema Verite- Cinema Verite is simply a style of documentary film making, combining naturalistic techniques with stylized cinematic devices of editing and camera work. Stage set ups and uses of the camera to provoke subjects, its is also known for taking a provocative stance towards topics.


Avante- Garde film - Avant-garde describes certain film makers, as they want to experiment with new ideas, forms, techniques, and expressions--and are often said to be "ahead of their times." Avant-garde films are characterized by a high degree of experimentation--whether it be in manipulation in narrative materials, in highly stylized visual representation, or in radical departures from the norms or conventions current at the time, avant-garde film is always a vehicle for the filmmaker’s expression.


Film noir - The term film noir describes a type of film that is very dark and depressing. The word noir is French for 'black', and it was during the 1940s that film noir came into its own. The term was coined by film critics just after World War II.


The French New Wave was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s. the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of classical cinematic form and their spirit of youthful iconoclasm and is an example of European art cinema. Many also engaged in their work with the social and political upheavals of the era, making their radical experiments with editing, visual style and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm.

Lars Von Trier is a Danish film maker, he came up with the dogma style.

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