As I was told from a young age by my parents, the television would make my brain go to mush. Although a statement such as that has not been scientifically proven, I am almost sure it’s true. However, thanks to the wonders of the internet (depends on who you are talking to), it has become almost status quo for filmers to constantly update their youtube/ vimeo pages or personal blogs with recent footage. In doing so they have changed the fundamentals of how surfing footage is captured and produced.
Gone are the long waits in between the filmers’ epics and the old model of “produce a video every couple of years and sell it in shops for $29.99.” Depending how swift the individual is with his or her editing, a session can be up on the web just hours after it was filmed–for free.
With economic times the way they are now, who doesn’t like something free? Most filmers aren’t hording their material anymore, instead they leak bits and pieces here and there to satiate the appetite of viewers and string a captive audience along until the final video hits the shelves. With digital download increasing in availability through i tunes, Amazon and Netflix, physical copies of videos on dvd may soon be a thing of the past.
