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ICANN video highlighting last week's historical DNSSEC key signing ceremony held in a high security data centre located in Culpeper, VA, outside of Washington, DC.
"During the ceremony, participants were present within a secure facility and witnessed the preparations required to ensure that the so-called key-signing-key (KSK) was not only generated correctly, but that almost every aspect of the equipment, software and procedures associated with its generation were also verified to be correct and trustworthy."
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DNSSEC is important.
But not for the reasons being presented here. SSL already enables end to end authentication of Web Sites.
DNSSEC does not and cannot. Even if we assume BGPSEC is also in place, there is no end-to-end security. DNSSEC merely secures the mapping of DNS name to IP address. The mapping of IP address to Internet endpoint depends (and will continue to depend) on the thousands of AS number assignees.
We could fix DNSSEC to provide end-to-end security, but that alone would be relatively pointless as we can already do that with SSL.
As someone who has run key ceremonies, I would also point out that you do not want the identity of the key share holders to be known as this puts them at personal risk of blackmail, extortion etc. So making a film of the process is counter-productive.