Blade Runner: A Movie (sidewise ver)

First question to get out of the way: Why in Hell is the camera on its side? Well, that's a bit of a long story, the short version of which is: it was an experiment. The slightly less short version (which was going to be detailed in a companion video) involves Brian Eno, mechanical television, and vintage arcade video games (but not in that order). This was shot using a Sony Digital8 Handycam, the TRV-480, but using its memory stick mode instead of tape, purely for the convenience of not having to capture footage through the firewire interface. The result, unfortunately, is that the resolution is only 320 by 240 (another reason for turning the camera on its side) and the frame rate barely exceeds 15 per second. It's still slightly better than the IPEVO (and was filmed before, anyway) and can actually record for longer than my Flip Mino (the one I recorded the Digital Backlot Retrospective with).

Anyway, I decided to present this video here as opposed to its original home on Gamespot because this review was really the precedent for the IPEVO and Moleskine reviews. Like the introduction says, I've been trying to review items (mostly media) that are difficult to categorize. In this case, it's a book presented as a screenplay, but is really a dolled-up screen story for a movie that was eventually made, but in name only. It's a long and complicated story and probably one of the lesser-known aspects of the Blade Runner legacy.

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• Blade
• Runner
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• Burroughs
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