Pay attention to how lighting and color (or lack thereof) create a specific feeling.
If you can find a digitized copy of Any Evening After Work (1955), grab it. It’s a 20-minute silent reel featuring a couple in a walk-up apartment. Nothing happens except real life—smoking, laughing, and the clanking of a radiator. It is cinema verité at its most honest. Desi Homemade Blue Film flv
: Characterized by grainy 8mm or 16mm film, high contrast, and lack of sound. Pay attention to how lighting and color (or