Week-5

By zggaofei

                                  dogville_for_web.jpg dogville2.jpg dogville-grundriss.jpg                                                   Dogville is a movie that works as a demonstrating of how a good idea can go wrong. The director Lars von Trier set the story in a Rocky mountain town during the Great Pression, but doesn’t provide a real town. The first shot looks straight down on the floor of a large sound stage, where the houses of the residents are made out with chalk outlines, and there are only a few props-some doors, desks, chairs, beds.We can just see some basic living props. Is it a peacefull town. Yes it is. But just in the begging.

People always like to develop their living quality. When something new and beautiful come to the villedge, people begin to change. Thus, everything will change when residents of Dogville see such a beautiful woman who escaped away from the  gangsters. Residents will be excited to ask the new women about what she saw, what she experienced and what’s the novelty of her surroundings. This means residents want to get connection with the out world. So, the beautiful woman will be found in the end. On the other hand, there’s no wall of the all the house in the town gives a feeling to audience that the place can’t hide anything. Thus, the woman must be found.

Dogme 95 is a collective of film directors founded in copenhagen in 1995.t expressed goal of countering “certain tendencies” in the cinima today which is the raging of technological using in the film. The goal of Dogme is to purify filmmaking by refusing expensive and spectacular effects, postproduction modifications and other gimmks.The emphsis on purify forces the filmmakers to focus on the actual story and on the actors’ performances. The rules of  Dogme known as Vow of Chastity. “Filming must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found). The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs within the scene being filmed, i.e., diegetic). The camera must be a hand-held camera. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted. (The film must not take place where the camera is standing; filming must take place where the action takes place.) The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera). Optical work and filters are forbidden. The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.) Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now.) Genre movies are not acceptable. The final picture must be transferred to the Academy 35mm film, with an aspect ratio of 4:3, that is, not widescreen. (Originally, the requirement was that the film had to be filmed on Academy 35mm film, but the rule was relaxed to allow low-budget productions.) The director must not be credited. “

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95

Leave a Reply