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Description of Video
This video is a tribute to French New Wave
movement. We applied most of French New Wave characteristics in this video. The
aesthetics of French New Wave in this video is most of the scenes in shooted in
the real location such as restaurant and play ground.
Next, only direct
sound and available light used in shooting this video. As you can see from the video, the main character is sleeping in his room with natural room light from the window. Then he goes to a restaurant. We can clearly hear the noise of the restaurant showing that the noise was not removed in the
editing. We use handheld camera
to shoot the whole video.We can see the scene that the main character is chased by a group of people, is very shaky and unstable. The shaking of the camera demonstrates the low budget shooting typical of French New Wave films. We can see from the beginning to the end of the video that the dialogues
are very natural where is it not planned earlier. The actors are asked to
talk on the spot when shooting so they can create their own dialogue. We can
also see many jump cuts in the restaurant scene. This is to attract the
audience to give attention to the video.
The main character is a young anti-hero and loner who does not have family ties. He behaves spontaneously and act immorally. He cheats people money by asking them to give money to him for investment and he gambles to earn fast money. But he still cares about a girl who stays in the same orphanage by giving her money and take care of her. This shows that although he does immoral activities, he still have someone who cares about. This video ends with the main character whacked by people and he walks away alone. It is an open ending story and no answer to be found what is his real characteristics.
French New Waves is truly a great film movement which has unique characteristics. We are honored to make a video as a tribute to French New Wave. Hope you all enjoy our video.
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