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Lesson Objective: To understand the characteristics of the independent film industry
Independent Film
Indie films share mechanical and narrative attributes, which differ from Hollywood’s.
Hollywood:
• Adheres to continuity editing, the films of the indie genre
• Films need medium close shots and shot/reverse shots to keep the film together
• Big Budget/famous actors
Hollywood vs Independent Film
Independent:• makes use of techniques that conflict
the basic purpose of Hollywood editing e.g. handheld camera
• Make use of other types of shots more so than Hollywood does.
• Refusal to use epic establishing shots
• Small budget/less well known actors
“In a scene where Juno (Ellen Page) and Leah (Olivia Thirlby) are at the mall, there is no establishing shot. The narrative opens directly into a conversation between Juno and Leah at a new setting the audience has not seen before. A mall is something many audience members can recognize, so they eventually understand where they are, but with no exterior long shot, it takes a few moments. This is the opposite of what continuity editing tries to maintain. Here viewers are unsure and not kept totally clear on what is happening inside the film”
(King)
Juno• Lack of establishing shot (Thompson 2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fERhVMc30JU
Indie filmmakers use other techniques beside the distance of the shot to make their films stand apart from Hollywood’s. One unique method is using a mismatch of sound and image(Tzioumakis)
Handheld Camera
Inexact or off-centre framing – disorientating
Unconventional use of split-screen
Narrative structureHollywood:
• Linear
• Beginning, middle, end
• Equilibrium (Todorov)
• Chronological
Independent:
• non-linear
• Explorative
• Not necessarily in chronological order
• Unstructured
“some independent features are marked by their lack of strong, forward moving narrative drive, opting instead for more relaxed or de-centred structures…” (King)
CharactersHollywood:
“Hollywood protagonists tend to be active, to seek out goals and pursue them rather than having goals simply thrust upon them”
(Thompson)
Independent:
The characters are generally “goal-oriented, psychologically motivated”
(Tzioumakis)
Socially topical rather than timeless
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