Professional Filmmaking at a Glance
Traditionally, filmmaking is a high-cost and very complex undertaking, at least when it comes to the grand productions that first come to mind, but in recent years as the advances in technology have dramatically reduced the price of entry-level equipment, there has been an explosion of a different type of filmmaking, the kind you see posted on YouTube and GoogleVideo and other similar websites that gives people an immediate means of expressing themselves on video and immediate audience to communicate with.
Some quickly dismiss the three-minute video of some buddies lip-syncing to their favourite song as having nothing at all to do with filmmaking, while others are quick to say that it is just another part of the spectrum for an art form that puts captured moving elements in front of someone who appreciates whatever the subject matter is.
While that debate will rage on, and likely get more intense and technology continues to impact and change this form of communication, it can be said that filmmaking is both a creative process and a technical process, regardless of the length or complexity of the presentation.
In addition to these extreme examples on the high and low ends of the spectrum, there are myriad other examples of filmmaking and two specific categories, guerilla and zen, are two examples of unique approaches.
