Film Studies Blog

Experimental film – Fallen Angels: Explore how far ‘Fallen Angels’ challenges conventional approaches to narrative.  Wong Kar Wai’s 1995 film challenges conventional narrative choices in many ways including structure, camera shooting styles, and the way scenes are constructed. With also thematical and genre style differences too. One scene in particular featuring very unconventional narrative choices would be the montage sequence involving forcing a man to eat ice cream, and going into stores after they’ve closed to rob them of their goods. Nothing like this would be seen in a mainstream movie. For this reason, it is quite a shock to see the events unfold and makes us somewhat question what is actually going on? Not only this but its comedic too, the dark humour is executed well however one must consider whether an audience of long-time experimental films would find it humorous in the same way audience who are not familiar with experimental films. This whole sequence aesthetically fe

Evaluation With our silent short film project, we attempted to capture the aesthetic of an authentic silent film however add a twist of the 21st century within our production. The concept of a chase sequence was a big factor in deciding our plot, we also opted for an enigma within our narrative and that’s where the notion or having a double came into play, given as during the German expressionist movement having a double in a film was common. The soundtrack we applied also gave the sense of a very exaggerated scenario, as well as facial expressions being highly exaggerated. To improve however we could have added black title cards to alert the situation and also held camera shots for a longer duration, with little cuts throughout the film.