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This article talks about some very interesting things, and some things I had never really considered. I had known that they were there but never really spent time thinking about them. Coming from a film / cinematography background where the ideal situation is to replicate real life situations through artificial manipulation, I had never really given much thought to doing the complete opposite - using the camera as a tool to capture all that the human eye cannot. I feel like the way it's described in the article, is pertaining more to the editing portion of filmmaking rather than specifically the act of filming that is able to transform situations of reality into non-reality entities. After all the original thought by the Lumiere brothers was to use the camera / projection of things as a sort of magic trick or grand illusion to help lure their audiences in even more. They hadn't thought of replication of reality for the sake of story telling but instead for the use of illusion and trickery.