1. NEW AMERICAN/ HOLLYWOOD WAVE

2. MACBETH
A short tragedy play written by William Shakespeare about a man who receives a prophecy from three witches about being the next king and becomes greatly consumed by this idea.
We decided to use the ‘is this the dagger’ soliloquy.
We also thought it would be interesting to use this soliloquy as it subverts one of the New Hollywood's Cinema convention of being ‘naturalistic’.
This soliloquy is the first glimpse of Macbeth’s insanity, where we see the crime that is responsible for his mental torment.
We wanted to create an eerie atmosphere by setting the scene outside the cathedral. It’s also contradicting because the soliloquy conjures up images of satanic and earthly evil.

3. BEFORE THE NEW HOLLYWOOD WAVE THERE WAS CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA
Between 1920s to 1960s
Films were operated under the studio system, principle of continuity editing and the haze code.
Provides comprehensive beginning, middle and end.
The characters goals are visually psychologically rather than socially motivated. Also, there is conventionally a goal driven protagonist whose desire is to solve the problem.
Camera and editing techniques are used to help deliver story information.
Some often used the Brechtian style and an exaggerated style to make a political point.
Ended because commercialism was dominating Hollywood and people weren’t interested anymore.

4. NEW HOLLYWOOD CINEMA
Between 1960s to 80s New generation of young filmmakers in the US.
They had a naturalistic approach towards cinema and stayed faithful to the reflection of the society.
They wanted to engage the younger demographic .
Film and media was studied and directors/producers thoroughly thought through what they were producing.
They subverted the haze code and films were more: raw, had nudity, illicit sex, foul language, homosexuality, lustful kissing and so on.
The narratives were more ambiguous and oblique. There didn’t have to be the beginning, middle and end structure.
The use of editing was still an important factor. Artistic effect was used to reflect feeling.
Location was important because it heighten the sense of realism.
Ended because cinema was commercialised again and because of the other uses of media that evolved eg books, magazines etc.

5. DUEL 1971
This film was directed by Steven Spielberg, a well known director who was considered as one of the founder pioneers of the New Hollywood era
The synopsis follows a business commuter who is pursued and terrorized by a wicked driver of a massive tractor.
The New Hollywood conventions that we noticed in the film were: location shooting ( café, service station, living room, roads) which added to the naturalistic effect, artistic effect – showing different angles of the character to allow the audience to enter their subjective state of mind, the narrative was oblique.
We were particularly inspired by the scene from and the gents room scene, where as spectators we were living through the protagonist vicariously by the use of different angles of the character and there is a voice over of him sharing his stream of consciousness.

6. WHAT WE DID Our one minute piece was greatly inspired by the DUEL 1971
We took various shoots of the protagonist (female Macbeth), especially close ups to create communication between the audience and the character.
We used a voice over in order for the audience to explore Macbeth’s mind and his thoughts
Filmed it outside to create a sense of realism and we filmed outside the cathedral to further enhance the idea of blasphemy – which could contribute to the convention of an oblique and ambiguous narrative.

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