French New Wave

Signature style in the BishBashBosh style library. Silvery black and white; or bright, flat primaries — red, blue, yellow — against white walls.

Camera: Light hand-held 35mm and long tracking shots through real streets; jump cuts, whip pans, characters glancing into the lens
Lens: Wide spherical primes, 25mm–35mm, close-ups on a 50mm; widescreen for the colour films
Film stock: Black-and-white 35mm pushed for available light, grainy and silvery; Eastmancolor widescreen for the colour films
Lighting: Only the light that is there: café windows, white walls, street lamps and shop signs at night, hard Mediterranean sun
Colour: Silvery black and white; or bright, flat primaries — red, blue, yellow — against white walls

6 named looks in French New Wave

Café close-up

Camera: Long-held close-ups, the face filling the frame, eyes just off the lens
Film stock: Black-and-white 35mm, fine grain, a soft silvery print
Lighting: Soft grey daylight from a café window, no fill
Colour: Black and white: silvery greys, soft blacks

Night walk

Camera: Tracking backwards ahead of a figure walking the boulevard at night
Lens: Fast lenses wide open, the lights behind turning to soft discs
Film stock: Black-and-white 35mm pushed two stops for the night streets: heavy grain, blooming highlights
Lighting: No lights of its own: shop windows, cafés and street lamps only
Colour: Black and white: deep blacks, lamps blooming into soft discs

Neon

Camera: A glance back over the shoulder, caught on the street at night
Lens: Fast lenses wide open, the lights behind turning to soft discs
Film stock: Black-and-white 35mm pushed two stops for the night streets: heavy grain, blooming highlights
Lighting: Neon signs and street lamps, the face lit by the sign
Colour: Black and white: glowing neon letters against night blacks

Promenade

Camera: Hand-held, walking with them along the seafront on a long lens
Film stock: Black-and-white 35mm in hard sun: whites blown out, visible grain
Lighting: Harsh Riviera sun, wind, white light off the sea
Colour: Black and white: bleached whites, hard blacks

Sea horizon

Camera: A lone figure held small in a wide frame, the horizon cutting it in two
Film stock: Eastmancolor in widescreen: bright, flat colour, fine grain
Lighting: Bright hazy sun, a long soft shadow
Colour: Terracotta, flat sea blue, a pale hazy sky; a pink blouse

White wall

Camera: Close-ups against a bare white wall, looking straight into the lens
Film stock: Eastmancolor in Techniscope widescreen: bright primaries, a little soft
Lighting: Flat, shadowless daylight off white walls
Colour: White walls, pale blue, a pinned picture's red and blue

USE THIS LOOK ON EVERY SHOT.

Pick French New Wave in BishBashBosh's style guide and it's written into your master prompt, so every shot in the film carries it, on whichever video model you shoot with.

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