Thursday, April 27, 2017

Top things we learnt from Louis Malle - Zazie dans le metro


"Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears."


1) A man speaking and changing places - jump cuts a la michel gondry too
2) pan to a static object and jump cut to subjects reaching there repeatedly
3) When a character is speaking - the other character comes from all the directions. E.g in LS the two characters A is to the left and B is towards the right. Then we goto close up of B and find that A is on the right of him. And next instant A is towards the left of him.
4) People crowding a small space and moving our key character 
5) Group of people talking to eachother - in a tight shot we pan from one new face to another and come to another new face.
6) When introducing a new location - a group of characters are doing a to and fro activity and creating a rhythm
7) Exagggerating the backdrop by using a green screen. 
8) shots from extreme perspectives - much below and much above
9) Close of a man but not frontal but rear or anything eelse 

Also check Mack Sennett and Buster Keaton.


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