Something peculiar has been happening over the last few days which I think might well be worth mentioning here: I keep coming across film crews. Out on my trundles, I have stumbled over four or five people or groups of people making films. I don’t mean big, professional film crews, like when I happened to meet Danny Boyle himself, but small groups of amateur or student filmmakers. This afternoon for example I came across two girls up near the O2, making some kind of fashion video. They obviously weren’t just having fun: the young lady being filmed was wearing a very expensive-looking dress, her hair very intricately styled, and the young woman doing the filming was using a phone in a professional camera mount. Yesterday, too, I came across a group of lads in the park making a film with high end equipment. In both cases I stopped and watched what they were doing for a while.

Film is obviously becoming more and more prevalent as a form of expression and communication: we all consume the moving image like never before in our online, interconnected lives. It’s probably no surprise that more films are being made. These days, anyone can pick up a camera phone, put a short film together and get it online in hardly any time. I just have to raise an eyebrow at the fact that I’ve come across so many recently: as film, especially short, online film, becomes a more and more important means of communication in our everyday lives, I think we’ll be seeing more and more people making films and filming things, and coming across two or three people in the process of making a film will probably become quite commonplace. As someone interested in film and how films are made, I’ve found it very cool.