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"Eyeborg" - Canadian filmmaker to shoot with camera in eye

TheSeeker

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BRUSSELS -- A one-eyed Canadian documentary filmmaker is preparing to work with a video camera concealed inside a prosthetic eye, hoping to secretly record people for a project commenting on the global spread of surveillance cameras.

This sounds like the coolest hing in film making to come along in a while. I can't wait to see what the footage looks like.

The full story can be found here.
 
Hmm...is the whole " secretly record people for a documentary" legal ?


edit : Nevermind
"He said his subjects won't know he's filming until afterward but he will require their permission before including them in his film"
 
This sounds like the coolest hing in film making to come along in a while. I can't wait to see what the footage looks like.

You want to know what the footage looks like? Well, you can simulate it by just walking around watching people. That's pretty much what he'll get. ;)

If he gets anything shocking it's because he's invading people's privacy like in restrooms or what not.

Mr Awe
 
^I just think the whole aspect of the camera moving exactly the way his eye would is kinda cool. It'll be the first truly P.O.V. film.
 
^it'll be interesting to see how that shows up on film. A blink is pretty fast though.
 
I was looking up the frame rate of colonoscopy cameras like the one he's using (yes, I have nothing better to do) and they generally record at around 60 frames per second, so it would show up, as a blink is about 3 to 4/10ths of a second. Whether it would be particularly noticeable to a person viewing the video though is another matter.
 
Meh, sounds like a gimmick to me.

Doing something entirely original is almost always worthwhile, calling it a "gimmick" cheapens it. What is a gimmick but a hook, and when was the last time something was creatively or financially successful without a hook? Hmmm?

I'm not saying it will be an amazing documentary that changes the world, but it will be an interesting perspective and that is always something to be curious about.
 
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