Realist movies

Style

•Realism is a style of film. It tries to show things in a logical, realistic manner. Realists try to preserve the illusion that their film world is unmanipulated, an objective mirror of the actual world.”  •Lighting in realism is used depending on the setting of the scene. •It is usually of regular brightness. Outdoors: it is warm during the daytime and cold at night. •Indoors: it can be either one unless there is one more suitable to the scene. •Realist film makers will always try to make the set as believable as possible. •It should reflect reality, so they try to film in actual places instead of sets. •Colour is used moderately (E.g.: like 9 Lives, not The Wizard of Oz.) Realism tries to keep camera angles at around the height of the actors eyes to simulate that you are actually there. Regular angles, not to high nor low, as someone would ordinarily witness it. •Great use of deep focus, to keep cuts as minimum as possible and to simulate the way the human eye works. •Slow pace of action. Because it has less cuts, the viewer has to wait for the action to actually happen. Good for creating suspense.

•Steady chronology. Few jump cuts forwards of backwards in time. •This makes up the majority of sound in realist films. •Diagetic sound in conventional realistic films is composed by dialogue, and (if needed) sound effects and background noise. •Realistic films have very little non-diagetic sound.

•This is because there is no non-diagetic sound in real life. •If non-diagetic sound is present, it is usually subtle and for dramatic purposes (E.g creating an atmosphere, increasing the tension).