We have become a society of watchers

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Remember the movie Startup.com? WSJ interviews the co-stars a decade later

"… Again, she started filming casually and ended up making film history for the second time. …"

A part of what Jehane did was hack the documentary movie making process. When DA Pennibacker ( www.phfilms.com/index.php/phf/people/d_a_pennebaker/ ) / Chris Hegedus ( www.phfilms.com/index.php/phf/people/chris_hegedus ) of (The War Room, Ziggy Stardust, dont look back) ~ www.phfilms.com/index.php/phf/films/ great documentary makers themselves wanted to film they carried around bulky intrusive tripods and large cameras – requiring permission and time to set up the shot.

In startup.com the key reason a lot of the shots (shooting inside doing the VC rounds / inside the cars after the deal) was the use of hand held cameras. It was Jehane who took the hand held and got the great scenes and dialog that make startup.com a study of founder dynamics.

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Either listening to del.icio.us/goon/itconversations or today, the sound track commentary to del.icio.us/goon/startup.com

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