experimental films is the subversion , stretching and breaking of normal convention and narrative, genre and film form elements. experimental films are very substantive, removing and break the rules of traditional film. for example editing linear time , cause and effect, consistent rise en seen, charter motivation, charter motivation , relationship with the audience e.g 4th wall breaks and many many more. they are made to alters audiences responses as traditional pleasures such as narrative closure and suspension of disbelief are absent or subverted. disorientation, active spectatorship and a sensual experience might be in the foreground.
post modernism
post modernism snt as extreme as experimental film they tent to slightly bend the rules of narrative and film form conventions wothin a fairly traditional structure or features a more concitent use of casue and effect and mise - en scene. "It opposes all of the traditional structural theories and claims that the nature of modern life is so complex and fragmented that no theory can address all of these elements. Culture and identity are either self-constructs or defined by a new and ever changing set of relationships."
central elements of postmodenisum
reflexivity: where a media text draws attention to it self being a pice of fiction e.g breaking the 4th wall
eclecticism: where a wde range of influences andtechnques are used including high and low culture text
pastiche/ parody: a humours or satircal imation of a media text setting, genra and key elements of film formcan be pastiched or parodied
hyper reality: "the idea that we are all living in a "virtual" mediated world with little or no direct "real" experiences. It can also refer to the artificial constructed world of images we see in films which are not the same as the real world." - Baudrillard,
films like the matrix and incetions reference hyper reality.
acts againest modenism key elements
- disultion of linar time
- inconcitent mise en scen
- ditruction of casue and effetc
