UFO phenomenon, space aliens and film making technology are interesting to me. I have been watching documentaries on UFO phenomenon and space aliens lately. It is an interesting topic if you are a believer or nonbeliever that extraterrestrial life exists and has visited this planet. There is excellent entertainment based on the subject of alien abduction and invasion. Orson Welles caused panic and hysteria with The War of the Worlds radio drama he narrated and directed as an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel in 1938. Steven Spielberg thrilled movie audiences with Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The whole space alien and UFO phenomenon for whatever reason got me to thinking about the film making process. Movie production technology keeps getting better each year. It is almost like science fiction reality when you look back at the history of cinema. Nowadays people can shoot an entire feature film with their iPhone, edit it on their computer, and stream it on social networks to millions of viewers across the globe.
The only downside to this freedom to create movies is sometimes we as filmmakers depend too much on the film and editing equipment we are using and neglect the basic core of entertainment – telling a good story. I caught myself recently getting too distracted by which camera to rent to shoot Internet Predator. We are only at the budgeting stage of production, but I am already thinking RED is the only family of digital cameras we should be using. I caught RED fever.
