CINÉMA VÉRITÉ

Cinéma vérité "truthful cinema", is a documentary style of cinematography. it combines naturalistic techniques with cinematic editing, camera work and stage set-ups.

it was developed by French film directors in the 1960’s. Their production techniques did not depend on star quality actors, sets, props, casts of thousands, special effects and big budgets which was and is the trend in Hollywood films. The cinema verite directors would tend to use non-actors, small hand- held cameras, and actual homes and surroundings as their location for a film.

Cinema verite reminds me of the dogme 95 technique which i learnt about in film studies last year. The techniques used are fairly similar in terms of them using fairly basic equipment and filming is done on location without the use of props and sets, although there are a number of other rules which don't apply to cinema verite.

Here is an example of a Cinéma vérité