BSA 206 - The Name of This Film is Dogme 95
The Dogme 95 film movement is a Danish film movement that was based on a set of rules created in 1995. This set of rules was imposed to create a more pure sense of film free from the distractions of Hollywood style of film making. The rules of Dogme were first enforced by 4 main directors. These 4 were Lars von Trier, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Thomas Vinterberg, and Kristian Levring. The films that these 4 created were the first in this stand out movement and the first films to gain awareness in this movement.
The rules of Dogme are as follows
1. Shooting must be done on location. Any props required must be able to be found on set. No artificial sets
2. The sound must come from the film. Nowhere else.
3. The camera must be hand held, no other equipment.
4. The film must be in colour, and no special lighting is to be used.
5. Optical work and filters are no to be used.
6. The film must not contain superficial action, action must take place in the film.
7. The film must take place in the here and now.
8. Genre movies are no acceptable (Detective films, gangster films, etc)
9. The film must be filmed on Academy 35mm
10. Director is not to be credited
The Dogme95 movement ended in 2005 as the original creators felt that the movement had become too formulaic. I feel as if this movement would have been very restrictive as some of the rules had to actively be avoided. On top of that the amount of freely available scenarios was a lot more limited as the films could not have anything superficial, which meant that only more down to earth or real scenarios could have taken place. Credit must be given to the original directors though with how well they conducted their unique ideas. Even with said imposed limitations they proved that there is some element on identity and uniqueness in that film type.
The rules of Dogme are as follows
1. Shooting must be done on location. Any props required must be able to be found on set. No artificial sets
2. The sound must come from the film. Nowhere else.
3. The camera must be hand held, no other equipment.
4. The film must be in colour, and no special lighting is to be used.
5. Optical work and filters are no to be used.
6. The film must not contain superficial action, action must take place in the film.
7. The film must take place in the here and now.
8. Genre movies are no acceptable (Detective films, gangster films, etc)
9. The film must be filmed on Academy 35mm
10. Director is not to be credited
The Dogme95 movement ended in 2005 as the original creators felt that the movement had become too formulaic. I feel as if this movement would have been very restrictive as some of the rules had to actively be avoided. On top of that the amount of freely available scenarios was a lot more limited as the films could not have anything superficial, which meant that only more down to earth or real scenarios could have taken place. Credit must be given to the original directors though with how well they conducted their unique ideas. Even with said imposed limitations they proved that there is some element on identity and uniqueness in that film type.
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