The topic I have chosen for the essay is topic no.3, which is as follows:
3. Digital media put the tools of production into the hands of the everyday computer user making it incredibly easy to produce content. These creative skills used to be something that people worked to develop. Now it appears that amateurs can produce content of a fair standard within a relatively short period of time. Where does this leave 'professionals' and highly-skilled artists? Choose one area of creativity and discuss some of the challenges facing practitioners vs amateurs in producing digitalcontent.
In response to this, I will explore how the rise of video sharing websites such as youtube and the availability of new software programs has impacted filmmakers, and allowed the average computer user to have their video content seen around the world.
I intend to explain the history behind destributing video over the internet, it's benefits as a distribution method, how this new means of sharing film/video has affected traditional filmmakers (including the proliferation of 'fan films'), what benefits digital filmmaking has over traditional filmmaking, among many other such questions.
Some sources I will use include http://www.flamingangelfilms.com/handout.html, which provides some information about the internet as a distribution method for films, as well as several links to online videos and video sharing sites. Another website which may be useful is this one, which is an article describing the benefits of digital filmmaking. This site provides an interesting interview with online filmmakers.
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