“General instruction for all techniques: the invisible camera.

1. Filming unawares – an old military rule: gauging, speed, attack.
2. Filming from an open observation point set up by kinok-observers. Self-control, calm, and, at the right moment – lightning attack.
3. Filming from a hidden observation point. Patience and complete attention.
4. Filming when the attention of the subject is diverted naturally.
5. Filming when the attention of the subject is artificially diverted.
6. Filming at a distance.
7. Filming in motion.
8. Filming from above.”

Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov, by Annette Michelson, Kevin O’Brien