My apologies for the camera quality, it was shot in a crowded conference hall with my Flip cam.
In addition to the blatant propaganda vibe, the videos have strikingly high production quality — they are shot in HD and include sophisticated graphics and logos.
Only someone who has never experienced the attention-focusing qualities of being shot at can write self-assuredly about a draft's character-building benefits.
Distance, literal distance, in this case from the people he is shooting, represents a quality of estrangement and conveys the otherworldliness of the camp.
(The hours of unbroken footage for "Bergensbanen" would have been all but impossible in an era when high-quality images needed to be shot on film).
Whatever their qualities, none of these were shot for $27,000 raised on a credit card, as Clerks was in 1994, or paid for by selling bodily fluids for medical experiments as Robert Rodriguez's $7,000 El Mariachi was in 1992.
Judging by the quality of these productions, they are shot with some pretty nifty equipment, an acquisition which seems somehow to have ducked the age of entitlement.
"After he loses his original camera, though, and somehow obtains a better one, improving the image quality (and how! the movie was shot with an Alexa, which can start at $60,000), he increasingly uses his telekinetic powers to operate his new toy," Ms. Dargis wrote.
"After he loses his original camera, though, and somehow obtains a better one, improving the image quality (and how! the movie was shot with an Alexa, which can start at $60,000), he increasingly uses his telekinetic powers to operate his new toy.
