10 Awesome Innovations That Changed Cinema Forever

2. Low-Budget Filmmaking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJml4i85TRM The combination of affordable non-linear editing suites for home laptops and cheap, high-quality digital cameras has meant that anyone can theoretically make a film at a pretty minimal cost. The digital revolution was kick-started by filmmakers like Thomas Vinterberg, whose debut film Festen was shot on handheld digital cameras and became a huge critical hit. Today, cameras like the Canon 5D can be rented for only a few hundred pounds a week, and produce high-quality HD results that look on par with just about any film out there (provided you have a DP who knows what he's doing). The clincher is that it can then all be fed into your computer at high-speed and edited super-fast. Though the old-guard might decry the fact that just because everyone can make a film it doesn't mean they're making good ones, the democratisation of the medium can only be viewed as a good thing. If it allows creative minds to put their energies into a project that might just put them on the map one day, then one can hardly say that it's a bad thing.