THE NEW WAVE was a term used for a group of film makers in 1950s/60s. The most influential new waves were from the French movement in Paris. This form of cinema experimented with hand held portable cameras, editing and visual style. “New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of classical cinematic form and their spirit of youthful iconoclasm.” Wikipedia.
Along with the new way of filming there appeared a new way of editing, a inspirational film maker, Jean-Luc Godard started the uses of ‘jump cuts’, ‘mismatches’ and other editing processes that when against the ‘editing rules’. This emerged when one of his films ‘A bout de souffle’ was too long meaning he had to reduce it to just one and a half hour.
The new ‘editing style’ for the French new wave now did not conform to the editing rules, there were free styled shots, discontinuous images and insertion of unconnected material. Including shooting on location, natural lighting and improvised dialogue turning it into a more documentary type style. Although many French new wave film makers used their friends as the cast, Goddard and Beauregard and Ponti managed to show off Jean Seberg in ‘breathless’ and Corrine Marchand in ‘Cleo 5 to 7 Varda’ in a classical French aura. Both dressed in timeless outfits and minimal, elegant make up.
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