How filmmaking is like launching a start-up | Newsmakers | CNET News.com

How filmmaking is like launching a start-up | Newsmakers | CNET News.com: "How did your knowledge about technology and the computer industry play into your new role as a filmmaker--or did it? ... Ferguson: It did actually, to a surprising extent, in two ways. One is that filmmaking is increasingly digital. The entire film was made digitally, filmed with several different high-definition cameras. We used fairly fancy, extensive, high-definition cameras for the United States interviews. We used newly available, much smaller high-definition camcorders for our Iraq footage, which turned out to be a very good choice, although it was difficult, because we got two of the first 40 of these systems that were available in the United States and they were new and they had a somewhat complicated work flow."