Movie making with cheap equipment

A terribly hurtful video! A guy makes a movie with cheap movie equipment. He uses the same camcorder and the same digital audio recorder I have.

https://arclip.net/video/cVaCQd8noUQ/how-to-film-with-cheap-equipment.html

The resulting film is available here.

I was in favor of using only the built-in mic on the camera and using intertitles, narration or subtitles for scenes where the sound is unusable, but that's going too far.

I posted something on here long ago---it was a documentary from RT, the Russian news channel, about a guy in a Russian prison. He killed a guy in a drunken brawl. Prison sentences are much shorter in Russia and he was only in for a few years.

But the guy had worked in the film industry, so the prison gave him a point-and-shoot digital camera and a simple tripod and told him to make movies. He made a documentary about his horrible cellmate, a serial killer who thought the video would be his ticket out of prison. He made some fiction films. He had trouble recruiting other inmates as actors and they had to bring in a woman and child to play an inmate's wife and son on visiting day.

Kelley Baker, who calls himself  "The Angry Filmmaker", knew a guy who filmed a documentary on heroin addicts. He thought the subjects of the film would likely steal his equipment, so he used a couple of old VHS camcorders which turned out well. The format suited the subject matter.