History of film continued- Free Cinema and protest

· Short films can be fictional or non-fictional, or documentary and be influenced by historical features.
· A protest to the dominance of the mainstream is the British Free Cinema movement of the 1950’s
· British free cinema was generally black and white film, documentary fly on the wall type films. Most films in free cinema are short films and ‘Cinema Vérité’- True cinema-French.
· These films are on a shoestring budget and they usually have an unpaid crew.
· The camerawork is usually handheld and using a 16mm film stock Bolex cameras.
· Filmmakers of today take too much advantage of technology that is available to them and don’t have enough focus on the narrative, only on things such as SFX and what technology allows them to do, as opposed to the raw material.
· BFC has an experimental approach to sound.
· BFC had style and attitude and was funded by the British Film Institutions experimental film fund, just by featuring working class people at work and in society.