German Expressionism - Research

Due to our opening sequence having clips where there is an item that reflects the character, Reno, one of our media teachers told us that we should look in to German expressionism to help us further this idea.

After researching on the Internet i found out that German expressionism related to the creative German moments after the first world war. Due to little money after the WW1, Germany could not compete with the lush sets of Hollywood and therefore used the mise-en-scene and different types of symbolism to create deeper moods across the audience. Sets contained wildly non-realistic, geometric designs and different designs to represent the different lighting and shadows which is shown on the left by a picture from the film "The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari"

It is a way of expressing psychological turmoil of space by characters and had had themes of madness and insanity- which would fit in with our idea of our psychotic man. German expressionism has influenced many film genres such as the horror film and film noir. Also it has influenced such films as Frankenstein, Dracula, citizen Kane and psycho. An example of German expressionism would be of the film "The Cabinet Of Dr Calligari" in the opening credits.