This film is revealed through her eyes, nothing is known outside of the main character. There are certain times when there is a sense of unrestricted narrative, where the main character is no longer in the mise en scene. Yet the only time that they do this is to foreshadow where Selma is going next. One example of this is towards the end of the film when Selma and Jeff are driving around together. The camera cuts to a shot of the play that Selma was staring in earlier in the film. The audience sees the actors on the stage and then the cameraman walks behind the actors on stage and view Selma in the doorway. The mise en scene is very basic. There is nothing in the shot that doesn't need to be there. There is no clutter and nothing to make the scenes seem unrealistic. Props and sets were not allowed to be brought in, according to the Dogme Vows of Chastity. If certain props were needed, then they had to do the filming where this prop could be found. Because of this, it makes the film seem more realistic since noting is really out of place. It was all there to begin with. One of the other vows also help make the film more realistic, and that is the one that the filmmakers are only allowed to use hand held cameras. Since it is hand held, there is a lot of shaking as the camera people are moving around, but that just adds to the reality perspective of it all. As for the editing of the film, there didn't really seem to be too much of that for the length of the film. The takes seemed to be very long, having the camera angle stay the same for a really long time. During the scenes, the camera didn't seem to change from one to the other very often. It seemed to have stayed the same camera for a while. Usually .
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in movies there are several cameras placed throughout the set and through editing all of the cameras cam be used, making the audience see from all angles of the shot.
