The early advances of cameras lead to many types of cinema presentation as well as diverging paths from the norm. The culture of society had just as many affects on films as people advocated "real" and "unreal" scenes. The movement of Dogme 95 established a set of rules or "vows" to counter the farther out idea of film.This process was helped by the availability of cameras to the directors (sometimes using a lot of them at once). Personally, I am still slightly confused about Dogme 95 as a genre of film and what it truly tried to connect to as "authentic," but such works did provide experimentation in the world of film.
When the projects like the "Blair Witch Project" rallied the common man to take up the camera as well, this lead to a more personal and often more dramatic look into political issues and the way a film could have been and was directed. When this type of filming was combined with the element of art and "elastic reality" in post, this opened up even more ways to portray one's point, whatever it may have been. I agree with this since this is the technique I use in my works, just with a bit more fancy of camera and software.
I like the concept of the frame being used as an aesthetic device while also being a potentially limiting factor. This goes along well with the style of showing communication (between the actors and the scenes of the film) in bits and pieces. With the distribution power of the internet and the attention one could garter for their work, it is now easier than ever to show off what one has done and look for ways to do more.
