When the web first became a craze, we saw a tsunami of people developing their own websites. More than less of these sites were both poorly developed and designed. We saw the professionals survive and we have now see higher standard websites . This is all happening again, but rather than websites it is now video production. We have seen sites like YouTube, Google Video and Yahoo Video become very popular. With many people owning a DV camera and web cameras now, being part of many PC’s and mobile phones, making your own videos is now so easy.
It could be argued that one reason for the change, is due to the popularity of the reality TV programs like Big Brother, Survivor and Idol. So the commercial networks are missing out, but sorry to say it, they did this to themselves. In recent years we have seen so much reality TV that people have said “I can do that”. I know the production values aren’t high, but I have always been told “Content is King”, “It’s about the story”.
Will we see the professionals survive and come out the other end of this new media tsunami or not?
Related Artilce:
The YouTube way to fame, fortune (maybe)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/arts/chi-0606240249jun25,1,2197039.column?coll=chi-leisurearts-hed
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