Hollywood Style

America has a rich form of art, which is film. The Hollywood Style introduces the broad themes and stylistic conventions of a classical Hollywood film. It examines American production methods, basically on how Americans use the basic materials of filmmaking in a manner that is different from their foreign allies. Also, it provides us discussions of how different directors achieve different effects with the available materials they have.

On the documentary that we have watched, which is entitled “Hollywood Style”, it opens our eyes on how beautiful the films are. Aside from the actors, the men behind them especially the directors also contribute a lot to make these films better. They work hard on various elements like the style, structure and cinematography to make the story of these films effective. Also, the use of camera and editing are crucial elements of motion picture; that’s why as a student studying cinema, it is important for us to know how they achieve these effects with their materials and for us to learn how to critic various films as well.

Hollywood Style was indeed one of the most effective tools of American cinema.

We learned in this documentary that Hollywood has a unique style. They used the term “Classical Hollywood cinema” which includes both visual and sound style for making motion picture used in the American film industry. As the host in the documentary have said, time in classical Hollywood is continuous and they use flashback to manipulate time. They use flashbacks to introduce a memory sequence of a character, just like in Casablanca. To effectively tell their story, filmmakers rely on style, structure, narrative and visual elements. Some premiere directors like Martin Scorsese discussed how classical Hollywood style affects the films over time.

The magic of movies is that they make their own universe. Each film has a certain story that makes each of us travel and go into a new world out of the reality. American cinema proves this through their unique style. The Hollywood style is truly one of America’s finest and one of the reasons on how they developed great movies from the classic films up to the present. And because of this, Hollywood made a profound effect on cinema across the world on our generation.