ABSTRACT
Both shooting (image acquisition) and editing (post-production) have undergone radical changes since the 1980s under the impact of successive forms of digital technology. These have changed professional working practices. They have made filmmaking more accessible beyond the confines of the broadcast and cinema industries, creating the new role of the filmer. They have profoundly changed the attitudes of citizens to the activities of filming and being filmed. They have provided new potentials to those who fund and make documentary and factual material for TV, cinema and other means of distribution. So it is logical that these changes will also have affected the regime of moving images and sounds itself. Chapter 4 shows how the relations between filmer and filmed have altered, reducing the elements of professional distancing and introducing a greater degree of personal interaction. This sometimes raises acute ethical issues, of which contemporary audiences are well aware, as chapter 13 shows.
