Rollin Hunt

The most important thing I learned in film school (I dropped out too) is that every shot should have a purpose. Whatever you can do to convey meaningful information is what works. My favorite movies that are shot with digital cameras are ones that completely embrace reality and don't try to gussy everything up and try to compensate with meaningless tricks. I think that perhaps what irks us is the lack of originality in storytelling. I think there is a limit to technical trickery with any camera that's trying to capture a narrative. I think classic cinematography is going the way of the opera and at some point the digital aesthetic will be fully embraced as the norm.

HEY! I found an overhead projector on the street and I opened it up and started pulling the plates of magnifying sheets apart. You know those floppy plastic magnifying sheets? I have a dof adaptor for my XHA1. I cut out a piece of the magnifier and placed it behind my 50mm lens. It does make the streaks, not nearly as beautiful as an anamorphic lens, but by darn it works alright. Those magnifying sheets have the etched lines for the 2 point. With it behind the lens it didn't make too much distortion. Just a little. TRY IT!

To me this is obviously 3D effects. UV map real images of walls and buildings onto faces in a 3D program, perhaps even from original footage with the character actually in frame. Rotoscope him so that he isn't distorted by 3D camera movements.