New Wave Film Evaluation

Upon Completion of my Dogme 95 text, I believe it was successful in portraying the conventions of the Dogme 95 movement, with heavy technical inspiration from Thomas Vinterberg's 'Festen' and Ake Sandgren's 'Truly Human', which is evident through the use of flash-panning (inspired by Truly Human) and through defiance of the 30 degree rule (as seen in Festen), with one cut actually having the camera not move at all. Due to the little time I had and the non-existent budget, I could not produce a stereotypically 'Dogme' narrative in the essence that it was not about a shocking, taboo subject, as seen throughout Festen through the means of child abuse, so I instead produced a text based around the ideas of paranoia and isolation, and how these can cause a frantic, erratic lifestyle, and I believe the style of filming and editing within the Dogme 95 movement portrays this message quite clearly. The slow shutter speed causes a lot of motion blur within the film, which is something I was looking for when producing the film, as this can be seen throughout Dogme texts, as when shooting with 35mm there is often quite a bit of motion blur. Unfortunately I was not able to use a 35mm camera as I was limited to the equipment I had at hand and had no budget, so therefore used a DSLR and adjusted the settings to allow for the best Dogme look I could gain. As I was creating a text based on the Dogme 95 movement, I could not experiment with lighting or add any colour to the scene, as this would be subverting the rules of the manifesto, so all lighting in the text had to be natural, therefore certain scenes are under-exposed due to lack of lighting. I also decided to produce the title sequence through just writing down the name of the film. I also decided to incorporate rolling dice into the film to add an element of randomness and luck, so I decided to produce the 'Dogme certification number' through rolling dice. Unfortunately, the  actual Dogme movement ended over 10 years ago, therefore I was not able to gain actual certification, but this would have severely added time to the pre-production, as I would have to wait for the film to be certified before filming. All sound and imagery was produced from the camera itself, as I did not use any professional recording equipment, however the microphone on the Canon 700D is significantly better than the base microphone on any camera I have experienced before, as there is very little that the microphone was unable to pick up. overall, I am very pleased with my text, because in my opinion it perfectly displays the rules of the Dogme movement.