Digital Cinematography

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Crewing

For fiction

There is an unfortunate misconception among producers that if you shoot digital you can work with a much smaller crew than with film. To make the judgement simply on the recording format is, in my view, foolish and probably comes from looking at the history of the two mediums from the wrong perspective.

It is true that most, but not all, video shoots to date have used smaller crews. This is because they are conceived from their beginnings as low-budget productions and, had the decision been made to shoot them on film, it too would have been done with the smallest crew possible.

This argument also applies to the minutes of cut film per day that can be the expected output from the crew. It is not film that limits the average ...