Contextual study evaluation

The first stage of studying the Dogme 95 movement was to gather information from a variety of sources so that I could begin to develop my overall understanding of the Dogme movement, firstly by uncovering who the directors were behind the initial concept of the Dogme movement. After this, the next logical step was to look into the rules that these directors would have to follow in order to abide to the Dogme manifesto, and looking into what exactly 'the vow of chastity' entailed. After my knowledge of the new wave had been vastly improved, I proceeded to view texts within the movement, and analyse the texts whilst having the 'ten commandments' of the Dogme manifesto in mind, in order to see if the directors followed every rule to the letter, often finding that directors would bend the rules to their full potential, or break one or two rules but still manage to produce a text that has an overall Dogme feel, such as with 'Truly Human', as Åke Sandgren subverted the rule that 'The sound must never be produced apart from the image or vice-versa', as in some scenes there is non-diegetic sound. Most of the research I acquired was from books and online in order to study different people's interpretations of the text whilst I had my own opinion. Whilst studying these books, I was careful not to stray into anything that was not relevant to the essay I was producing, as with the essay I was not able to stray from the subject at hand as there was very little leeway to "colour outside the lines" so to speak. I believe that after my study of the Dogme 95 movement, I have developed an in-depth opinion of the new wave, and I will be able to produce a piece following the majority of the conventions of Dogme 95.