The Classical Hollywood Narrative Style
The Classical Hollywood Narrative Style Conventions for contriving believable images and sounds in film narratives. Conventions has a shared meaning: Development: Conventional style in the U.S. for film and TV. There is a dominance of U.S. culture which expands and globalizes. It is mostly single camera. Classical: Also known as conventional style, it is the accepted model. Conventions are things we don't usually have to think about. For example the conventions of editing are determined by continuity editing, we do no think about the cut because the cut tends to be invisible. Style for contriving believable images and sounds. We believe in the possibility of what we see in film narratives associated with american films but the conventions for narrative cinema are worldwide. Hollywood is just the word that represents the american style. There are competitive advantages in the industry. "Willing suspension of disbelief" This is the phrase used to describe t...