Personal Video

With the invention and ultimate progression of personal and home video the world gets to see an abundance of personal documentation that never would have been seen without things like youtube and google video. Traces of this though have been prevelant since the beginning of film. The same basic principle was the basis for cinema of atttaction, only with internet access and ease of video use the media is able to reach all modern civilization. The use of non-professional actors and actresses is also something that is rare in entertainment but vital for the survival of home video. Once again video takes something from classical film as the Italian Neo-realist movement, with directors like Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini, utilized non-professional actors to further the realism in their films.
Though these types of media have a close semblence to real life it still constitutes a performance, an act, a presenation of our reality. Nothing can be true reality unless the presence of a camera or spectator is unknown to all the individuals involved in the footage.