Lights, Cameras, ACTION!

Growing up I’ve always wanted to create a full length movie. Not being sure what I exactly wanted to film about but I had a look on the Internet and noticed that on YouTube people were able to create something from nothing. Sure some of the videos were much better edited than others but even the average videos seemed pretty good.

By looking at the number of newer home made videos that are uploaded onto YouTube each day it can be quite evident that everyone wants to famous……… To be known for their work…… And so we have amateurs creating videos and movies and uploading them onto social media websites such as Face book and YouTube. One of the greatest benefits for these so called “Amateur” movie makers is that it cost them literally nothing to upload their movies and material onto these social media platforms. Millions around the world have access to these fondly used websites and are able to gain exposure within their area of interests.



Information that is being shown to the public can be easily manipulated as a melted plastic. With the advancement of technology in today’s growing society all it takes is one individual to create something that it can usually take 100’s of people to create.
According to Burns (2008) “There is an absence of producers, distributors, or consumers, and the presence of a seemingly endless string of users acting incrementally as content producers by gradually extending and improving the information present in the information commons, the value chain begins and ends (but only temporarily, ready for further development) with content.”

I agree with Burns statement because it is able to be seen within social media platforms such as YouTube with individual’s creating full-length movies and short films. For an individual wanting to make it in the film industry YouTube is the perfect gateway in order to get through the front door of the industry and to generate good PR from. Without today’s easily accessible range of state of the art technology it’s no wonder why many people are able to create and manipulate information that is out there, today.