1. Flim Style’s

2. For part of our homework we had to research film style’s and what they meant. Along with some example. Below are the film style’s we were asked to research: Auteur Avant-Garde film Cinema Verite (Ture in french) French New Wave Film Noir

3. What as Auteur is? A Auteur is a film director who is know for his/her distinctive individual film style so that his/her artistic skill in creating the overall product of the film makes him/her itsauthour- or auteur.

4. What is Avant-Garde Film? Avant-Garde films are experimental and outside the mainstream - and can be the subject of fierce discussion and debate because they can challenge what has become the norm. What was regarded as avant-garde in the past has often become the norm with the passage of time and changing views and standards.

5. What is Cinema Verite? Cinema Verite is a genre of a film that the film-maker shoots as a documentary-style along with the documentary-style the film-maker tries not to interferawith the scenes being the filmed. The film-maker normally shoots the scenes with a hand-held camera. Cinema Verite can also be know as Direct Cinema.

6. What is French New Wave About? New Wave is a style of film-making that developed in the late 1950s and 1960s that was a reaction against established French cinema and emphasised the unvonventiakity and individual styles of directors. Examples of infulential New Wave fim-makers were Francois Truffaaut and Jean-Luc Godard.

7. What is Film Noir? Film Noir are often dark crime thrillers and the style has developed as a genre characterised by highly stylised techniques and fatalistic themes. A good example is 'Double Indemnity' which is moody and beautifully designed with a wife's murder of her husband at the centre of the plot. Four main aspects of film Noir have been identified: 1) A narrative based on investigation, 2) Extensive use of devices such as flashbacks and voice over, 3) A complex representation of the female character, 4) A visual style that makes greast use of shadow and contrast in black and white (Gledhill, 1980).