Still waiting to make that first feature? So what's stopping you? If it's a $10million budget, forget it, because according to the industry wisdom you're too high a risk. People talk about 'digital' as if it's novel, but in fact the technology has been around for more than 20 years. In this section writer/director, May Miles Thomas explains why she chose the digital route to make her first feature, how broadcast technology evolved from analogue to digital, and how the development of digital has revolutionised movie-making, offering film-makers creative freedom and the choice to stop waiting for that elusive budget. For the technically challenged, we've even provided an easy-to-understand glossary to dejargon all those mysterious terms.