My New wave short film - Evaluation

To execute the factors involved with creating a new wave film, I decided to experiment with jump cuts, diegetic and non diegetic sound, and length of shots. My short film doesn not follow a narrative which helps exaggerate the "uniqueness" of the choice of editing and shots.
Through the beginning of the film, I used diegetic sound only but introduced a repeat in fountain noise. As it jump cuts to diffetent locations and images (the Godiva Statue, the fountain, the walkway), the sound of the fountain plays over this which is quite loud and not pleasant to here. This contrasts the usual choice in audio as film is usually made to be pleasant to watch for the audience; this is where the New Wave broke these rules. As Ray walks through the walkway towards the camera, the sound of the fountain suddenly stops, leaving silence. I believe my choice to do this also conforms to the broken rules of the French New Wave.
I then decided to add a non diegetic song but keep only a repetitive instrumental of two chords on an keyboard. Ray is seen entering a telephone box and talking on the phone. For a split second he looks at the camera and smirks, to show the self awareness and the break of the fourth wall used in the New Wave. I beieve that I could have done this better, by making him hold the gaze a little longer, making it more obvious, or cutting to a close up as he looks at the camera. I should have taken inspiration from films such as "Breathless" (1960) which displays many examples of self awareness.
There is a rule in film that prevents a good camera man to never point the camera towards the sun or at direct light as it creates glare; another rule broken by La Nouvelle Vague. Although my film was shot at night (using muted tones creating a moody feel) I managed to include this by panning the camera to face a direct source of light, such as streetlamps.
Now I have looked back on the filming and editing process of my film, I feel as though i have a better understanding of how the New Wave came around and how that there wasn't much thought put into the filming process; it was just done easily and cheaply. I believe this was easy to execute and came more naturally to me.