I was in a documentary movie a few days ago. The shooting lasted nearly 6 hours. The photo on the right shows the team that was making the movie.
Everything about the making of this documentary was just as complex, with modern technology, as anything in the old filmmaking world. It was just lighter and more efficient.
The two cameras are traditional through-the-lens Canon but they have video chips in the gigabyte range.
The microphone and digital recording system was extremely complex and allowed for many microphone inputs as well as extraordinary control of the sound and noise suppression. I was in the radio business, making half hour programs for public radio for nearly a decade, and my equipment was much simpler.
The lighting panels were lighter and had the interesting ability to adjust the wavelength range from warmer to colder. That seems a great advantage.
As with the QWERTY keyboard, which is now the standard for keyboards all over the world in nearly every language, often in phonetic form, the language of movies remains film oriented.
They still talk about reels as the length of the segment. They still talk about slicing and splicing for both the video and the audio.
The persistence of old technology language into the new world is always fascinating. It is a good habit that humans maintain. We need as much stability as we can in our social structure and worldview.