My new wave film is essentially a montage of shots, edited to coincide with music. The main theme was movement and transport, specifically centring around trains. I achieved this by including an erratic and constantly changing editing style, incorporated with camera shots that would move in unusual ways, and different speeds. By making sure all the shots were filmed in this way, I hardly had to spend any time on the editing, as the movements worked well with each other.
My initial plan was to simply have creative shots of the trains in coventry and the urban environment that surrounded it, but after i'd finished editing, I decided it would be a good idea to duplicate my new wave film, except have it in an old fashioned style, and place it alongside my initial edit. This basically created a comparison of transport, new and old, and gave me an opportunity to experience the role of a director of photography, since i had a list of shots that needed to be taken, so it would match the initial edit.
A technique I used frequently was the choppy editing found in Breathless. In Breathless, there's a montage of shots of the female lead in a car with a voice over narrator. These shots, so as to convey the passing of time are staggered and mixed up to create a jumbled up effect. This influenced my montage heavily and made for a great effect on some of my longer, slower moving shots, however I feel as though the editing could have been more concise, so that it moved perfectly in line with the visuals.
