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Classic Hollywood Cinema - Coggle Diagram
Classic Hollywood Cinema
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Narrative Structure
Classic Hollywood Cinema typically used a deadline structure to create a narrative that is action-focused on a time scale, maintaining the audience's attention.
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Characteristics
A convention of Classic Hollywood Cinema is continuity editing as it felt natural to the audience and so was easily understandable, making the films easy to follow.
Specific crew, especially directors and actors, would be expected to be seen in films by certain companies. For example, Cecil B. DeMille and Richard Arlen would be expected to work for Paramount.
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Editing
In this era of film, it was preferable to have seamless, almost invisible editing. Small rules/traditions such as fading in on a long shot also existed. With European influence, more innovative editing methods were used, such as cutting away before a scene is completed.
Shot/Reverse shot was often used during conversation and continuity was expected, the only exception being a flashback.
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Mise en Scene
Classic Hollywood cinema devoted a large amount of effort to ensuring that film's were seamless - they wanted their products to take you into another world entirely, for you to forget that you were watching a film, and the mise-en-scene heavily contributed to this. It was a form of point making in which various elements comprising the onscreen world were so meticulously organised that they functioned as a critical tool.