FLUCTUATIONS BETWEEN NEW HOLLYWOOD STYLE

AND CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD STYLE OF

FILM MAKING

By Gruff Pugh and Joe Healey

STRUCTURE OF CLASSIC NARRATIVE

The Three act structure

Act 1 (Setup) used as an introduction to main characters

Act 2 (The Development) the plot becomes more complicated

Act 2 often includes a false resolution.

Cause-Effect Relationship used to propel the characters along the

story

Act 3 (The Resolution) or the climax this is the final segment

showing the ending and with the classic narrative the hero would

win

BREAKING THE NARRATIVE

Citizen Kane uses non linear narrative to break the

current system

BREAKING THIS

Orson Welles has lead other film makers to follow

his lead

HOW IT WAS BROKEN

Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote

Citizen Kane broke normal narrative by making it

un-linear by having it as a look into someone's life

and not just having the camera follow someone's life.

CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD STYLE

Camera at distance

Long shot

Static camera

Melodramatic acting style (a bit of overacting)

A lot of eye level shots

BREAKING THIS

Citizen Kane broke allot of these rules using close

shots

more subtle acting

Wide angle lens

Allot of focus on whole screen allowing background

To be seen

BREAKING THIS

Citizen Kane breaking this showed other modern

movie makers to do the same and follow Orson

Welles lead

LIGHTING

Classic Hollywood uses lighting to make the actors

look as good as possible.

LIGHTING

New Hollywood still tries to make the actors look

as good as possible but it also uses lighting for affect

to the story and the character's personality and the

situation over making them look nice.

EDITING

Classic Hollywood uses linear editing style making

it simple and easier to follow what is happening. This

is still used allot today in certain films like Boyhood

EDITING

There have been changes to how films are edited

over the years no with different styles of editing to

create different films like Christopher Nolan’s non

linear film inception

180 DEGREE RULE

The 180º rule is used so as to not confuse audience

members.

The 180 degree rule put the two actors on one side

of an imaginary line, so that the positioning of the

actors, and direction of them is simpler to follow.