Cinema verite films aim to present realistic documentary-style footage while still being constructed. It uses techniques like handheld cameras, mirror shots showing no camera operator, and on-screen titles/dates to make the audience feel they are watching true, unstaged footage even though the scenes are planned. Saving Private Ryan is an example of a cinema verite film that aims to reveal the truth about war but still guides the audience's observations through its constructed style of shooting.
2. Cinema verite is all constructed and made
to look like a documentary.
Saving private Ryan
is an example of
cinema verite.
What is cinema verite?
3. Cinema verite film makers found it the best way to tell the
truth about cinema.
Cinema verite often wants to reveal the truth about
something and wipe out any other observations that the
audience as thought about before.
This sort of “realism” was later then criticised for its
deceptive construction of reality.
History of Cinema Verite
4. Saving private Ryan: Hand
held camera was used to
create a sense of realism.
Showing the camera through the
mirror to show that there is no
one controlling it.
Titles and date and time
to show “real times
footage”
5. Using the hand held
camera and POV to
show that it is “real
footage” and that
whatever happens
it has no been
“staged”. It puts the
audience in their
shoes.