Prima Visione and Seconda Visiona - which were made for the middle classes seen as a 'sophisticated' audience and usually played in major cities. The audience would select to go see the film they wanted to watch.
Terza Vision - was for the lower classes with cheap tickets. Due to (in the 1970's) the working classes going to the cinema's practically every night films were created at a low budget and were more formulaic. The viewing habits of this audience were more like a television audience, they would use the time there as a time for socialising, eating, drinking and talking whilst the movie played. They would be able to walk in on half the film, then watch the first half later (As it would be played in a loop) not worrying that the film was therefore not sequential.
Dialogue therefore wasn't too important, and stronger visuals were needed to catch the viewers attention. In the lecture we looked at a clip from Sergio Leone's 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' which
has an incredible use of sound and music despite the lack of dialogue. The use of eyeline and constant close ups, camera fragmentation of the body, and scale creates and incredibly tense and gripping scene.
Dario Argentino another director, is spoken of as an 'Italien Hitchcock'. He has slightly Auteur tendencies when it comes to giving himself a cameo in his films, he has a staple of placing himself as the killers black glove in films (similar to Hitchcock having a background cameo in his own films). He would direct very visually capturing pieces in his films to capture the audiences attention.
Fellini is taken seriously as an auteur, his stylish films comment on superficiality of middle class existence. He would use sunglasses in a lot of his pieces, perhaps illustrating reflection and emptiness - a lack of depth.
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