INTRODUCTION

In the late of 1950s, a group of French people and filmmakers are trying to break all the traditional filmmaking techniques in shooting a film. It is called French New Wave. They are few directors like Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy have been tried out this new way of filming, most of them were being influenced by the movement, both in France and abroad. In generally, they are trying to explore another type of movement rather than follow all the typical traditional camera shots in order to fulfill the specific genre.

The directors have created a new cinematic style by using breakthrough techniques and a new approach to convey the story. This kind of techniques will able to express the ideas in more complexity in both direct and emotionally. Besides that, they are also using jump cuts that are seldom exist in the traditional films because they feel that it is very bored and will lose attention from the audiences easily. Oppositely to French New Wave filmmakers, this is the point they would like to emphasize.

Out of the first time, the filmmakers do not rely too much on big studios. They do not hire professional actors and actresses. They do not want to mix any sounds in studio. They do not focus too much on the quality which is being edited nicely. They want things onscreen to be as real and natural as possible. A simple example is that if there is a shot that shoots a character walks alone on a street, there is possible to have other street people pass by. These young men love films and wanted to get something different into French commercial cinema.