Dina Shihabi's character, Melody Pendras, films her Visser Building research tapes in 1994. The camera she uses is a Sony CCD-TRV65 which wasn't manufactured until 1998.
For someone who is compiling a thesis project via videotape, Melody's taping technique is all over the place. With the exception of sit-down interviews, she rarely has the camera aimed in any useful direction, carrying it more like a purse than a recording device, mostly holding it downward or off to one side, even when its red light shows that it's recording non-stop.
It's also highly improbable that she can manage to record goings-on from secret vantage points without anyone noticing a bright red light peering at them from the darkness. The first thing she would have logically done in advance of all that taping would have been to put a piece of black tape over the recording light.
It's also highly improbable that she can manage to record goings-on from secret vantage points without anyone noticing a bright red light peering at them from the darkness. The first thing she would have logically done in advance of all that taping would have been to put a piece of black tape over the recording light.