First attempt at a Research Evaluation table for Festen

Here I have my first attempt at trying a Research Evaluation for sources I looked at to research the film Festen- I will later use this format for my Small Scale Research Project. I haven't posted the actual sources themselves as some of the articles are quite long.

Research Method	Secondary	Secondary	Primary
Source Details e.g. book with author, title, publisher and date noted	Review by Jason Best for BFI: Sight and Sound	Mark Brown Written for EUFS Programme (Edinburgh University Film Society) Autumn 2002	Survey asking a 21st century audience their opinion on the effectiveness of the Dogme 95 manifesto in Festen
Key Findings e.g. summary of what you found in the book. Note quotes with page numbers, in full where appropriate	“…far from stripping away the spurious layers of art, the miasmic cinematography and meat-cleaver continuity comprise nearly the most outré style imaginable. This would appear to make rather a hash of the manifesto's stern caveats against auteurism (none of the Dogma directors receives official screen credit) - especially as Vinterberg comes incestuously close to plying the same faux-naïf techniques originated by von Trier for The Kingdom television series and Breaking the Waves.” “you can't quite bury your misgiving that half the commotion is dictated by the need to justify the camerawork, instead of the other way round”	“The idea of the manifesto…was to "peel" film of its glamour and start an intellectual game with the language of cinema. “ “Like Peter Mullan's Orphans it uses humour to alleviate the bleakness of the subject matter, mostly a black version of the social comedy of films such as Eat Drink, Man Woman along with some lampooning of formal ways of doing things”	“I think it made it more real, like it was a home video of the event” “It made it more realistic and believable which made the content even more surprising! Was a bit slow in some places though”
Evaluation of Method E.g. how the item related to the research, what it contributed to the project, reliability, comparison to other items, where it might lead you next	Gives a very detailed plot summary of the film helped my understanding of the storyline and this article also gives background on the Dogme movement - it questions whether Festen fully follows the Dogme manifesto. However, I did find the wording quite difficult to understand.	Again, this article gave some background on the Dogme ideas and links Festen to some other films, however I had mostly found out the information in here previously in the other article.	Helped give me an idea of audiences’ reactions to the idea of the Dogme 95 manifesto and its effectiveness as a technique. I would like to further this research by asking more audience members their views of Festen.