How Digitisation is affecting moviemakers (Monsters)

In the last few previous lessons we have been learning about digitisation. Digitisation is making it easier for indie film makers to create there own films and publish them. Instead of having to use massive rigs to film and have a large amount of crew members not to mention a hefty budget, you can now just have a laptop, a HD camera and an idea to create a film. This is what were doing on a very small scale for our coursework.

Film Poster for "Monsters"

An example of this is Monsters which is an sci-fi adventure film set in Mexico, we watched a behind-the-scenes episode on the making of this film, we were astonished to learn that they have 5 crew members and 2 actors, paying small amounts of money for people to be in there film. They had 250 animated creatures designed and used throughout the film. They also had a production time of 3 months to film. This was made easier by the accessibility to edit. They were editing while filming, which meant if there were any shots that they didn't like they could easily re shoot the scene, instead of having to go to more expense to re shoot it after they had edited it or simply cut the scene out.