Part of having a strong interest in no-budget directing is seeing the rather amazing evolution regarding the sort of equipment available to those making features with no (or next to no) money. Super-8 used to be the standard in the 70s, giving way to shot-on-video in the 80s/90s and – eventually – digital video in the early 2000s. Now consumers have access to affordable high-definition cameras that can nearly emulate the image quality of much larger budget productions. Perhaps now more than ever, inexperienced directors have – for better or for worse – the opportunity to truly show what
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