Adopting the steadicam approach, the movie comes off like a found-footage disaster flick.
Tellingly, perhaps, their previous two films were both set in Haiti after the earthquake ("Sun City Picture House" and "Baseball in the Time of Cholera"), and moving quickly is something they've learned to do in their work providing footage from disaster zones not only for news outlets like the BBC and CNN but also nonprofits in those areas.
They will provide real-time footage to disaster responders on the ground, who can request specific information from the drones using hand-held electronic devices.
The footage of disaster relief tents and limp cheese sandwiches in polystyrene boxes highlighted on the two documentaries now streaming on Netflix and Hulu might be funny, but millions of dollars of tickets were sold for an event that didn't exist.
Medium Cool follows television news cameraman John Cassellis (played by Robert Forster) as he shoots hard-to-get footage of disasters, accidents, and other unseemly incidents that his network demands.
By dawn, news helicopters were capturing live footage of the disaster.
Released last month, Disaster Footage at Night is the duo's second album and features original lyrics and melodies.
America has a deserved reputation as the gleeful purveyor of shock imagery, disaster footage or anything that Hollywood could guess you had never seen before.
There is just enough disaster footage to convey a sense of catastrophe, and the movie periodically cuts away to a bar in Red Hook, the Brooklyn neighborhood hit hard by the storm, for a sense of hometown solidarity.
Michael Bay has apologised to the families of four US Air Force officers who died in a 1994 plane crash after footage of the disaster found its way into a new film from his production company.
Eyewitness accounts backed by security camera footage of the disaster suggested the eight-carriage train was travelling at high speeds as it took the pronounced left-hand curve through a deep culvert.
