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Film is a proven medium that has changed very little over the last one hundred years.
It will take a long time to retire this well-established means of capturing an image. If you want to produce professional programs, no matter which tools you use, the techniques still require a basic understanding of how to capture a good quality image. It is your job to tell a story with whatever tools you have available to you at the time. Today, you can shoot a program with your digital video camera, edit it, add special effects and have it aired on a major television network the next day. The problem is that too many people never learn the basic filmmaking techniques.