Bringing digital cinema into focus DePaul's new film school shows aspiring filmmakers how digital technology can get their movies made. Whether anyone will ever see them is another issue entirely.(Suburban Living)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August, 2004 | by McCoppin, Robert

Byline: Robert McCoppin Daily Herald Staff Writer Martin Donaldson has just been humiliated. His father died recently, he's had to return to the small town he thought he'd left forever, and now a guy in a bar just dumped a beer on him. His childhood sweetheart arrives to cheer him up - just in time for last call, and for Martin to decide whether to cut all ties to his past.

Their reunion, filmed at a bar in Elk Grove Village, comes at a key moment in the movie "Last Call." As the characters meet, a script supervisor off-screen accidentally drops the script, interrupting the scene. If the crew was shooting film, the production would cost $1,000 per minute of movie. But with $5 videotape in the cameras, they redo the scene at almost no cost, and it goes...