The Story of Film Episode 14 – New American Independents & The Digital Revolution

The 1990s: The First Days of Digital – Reality Losing Its Realness in America 12:12 and Australia.

Looks liked it was filmed on a helicopter

Put the camera on a giant crane

The metal liquid looked like it was in the helicopter

Jerry looked like he was drawn

Shots filmed  in deep space to show the hight of the boat and the length of the jump

The first mainstream feature ilm to be made entirely with a computer

Had the look and sound of cam-quarter video footage

The man’s voice is closer to the camera due to the internal mic

The bean that was flicked towards the drums was computer generated

The motion blur was also computer-generated

Images doing things that they could never do before

The ganster at the end of the film looks right into the camera, a very post-modern thing to do

There is little dialogue

One of the most influential gangster pictures of the 90s

The lighting is much brighter

To emphasis the dialogue, they use static shots

Long lens

wide shot then close-ups

long lens

wide shots then close-ups

Fast cut close-ups of the main characters

Has a scene shot on film with a green tint and on a glide camera

The hat is in focus and the trees are out of focus

The film shot in blue and navy

The film was shot in empty landscape

The film was shot in the 4 by 3 screen ratio

The study cam showed the driven almost trans like walking of gunman in northern Ireland

FIlmes felt like video games which became an influence in 90s cinema

Shows the beauty of walking

The film is full of fixed shots

Also had fixed shots like Jeanne Dielman

The bugs are CGI

The look was “Bright and shiny”

The soundtrack is “Explovisve”

The film has a close up onto a piece of chalk

Used very suggestive images and sounds

Long lens

The gunfight shot in close up

Tracking

Goes through computer-generated and modeled alleyways in Paris

Reverse angle editing

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