‘Create a blog post highlighting the key narrative and technical conventions of the French New Wave approach to film making. Talk about the difference between the left and right bank approach.’

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There are many key narrative and technical conventions of the French New Wave approach to film making.

The narrative in French New Wave tends to be improvised or written as if it were unscripted which can make it sound almost absurd due to the randomness of it. Along with that, it doesn’t tend to be necessary to the plot as it usually leans away from the films story.

French New Wave tends to use a variety of experimental techniques when filming such as focusing on the character’s emotion through the use of a long shot rather than using a shot reverse shot when filming dialogue, focusing more on aesthetic instead of advancing the plot. It also tends to lack establishing & master shots, allowing the viewer to focus on the characters more than the scene itself as the French New Wave typically uses the left bank approach [they were more focused on expressing film as an art rather than creating films for the sake of creating films.]