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Digital SLR in Feature Film
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Zaida Bergroth's new feature film, The Good son, premiered last Friday. Judging by the image quality, one might be surprised to learn that the Finnish movie was filmed entirely with digital SLR cameras costing around EUR 2,000 apiece, rather than with actual movie cameras.
Zaida said that she insisted on operating one of the cameras herself, and that these days it is possible to shoot high-quality video with digital SLRs. The visual narrative of the movie is sophisticated, with different scenes featuring background and foreground action simultaneously. The depth of composition appears well though out, and Zaida says that the they were at liberty to improvise and shoot alternate takes because the cost of the film was kept low. In all they shot around 40 hours' worth of material, which would have been way beyond the budget of the film had it been shot using a conventional film camera.
