Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Camera-less Filmmaking

The idea of camera less filmmaking is almost an oxymoron. Because, technically filmmaking requires cameras. But, I guess if I had to think of different types of "filmmaking" without using "cameras" I can at least try. The first one that comes to mind is digital picture camera because they usually have a function that can shoot video. Although the quality is pretty low it would look very interesting. Another device could be cell phones because current cell phones have more power than some computers. Although the video quality is so bad it would look like you were shooting a snuff film. Like a killer sends a video of him torturing a man's wife to the husband. A third media would probably be web cams just because technology of web cams has come a long way from the jittering low quality mess they used to be. Some laptops even come with web cams attached. I guess with this you could make a sequel to you’ve got mail with a twist. As a fourth method you could use a scanner and scan a series of images to make them animate and tell a story. A fifth method could be combining clips from different movies a splicing them all together to make a story. It would be kind of like found footage except maybe more of a narrative than collage. Another method might be to draw everything and use a computer to animate it, and record audio for dialogue and sound effects. There are many methods in making movies without actually using a camera. So we have a number of options to choose from.

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