With YouTube blowing up more and more all the time, (surpassing MySpace in popularity with more than 100 million videos watched every day), it seems like filmmakers are struggling to find a home in this cluttered and dense community.
As Paul pointed out in his last post, there is an advantage to getting on the YouTube train. But it's not all good. It seems to me the greatest advantage of the service--that anyone can post a video--is also the greatest disadvantage. If you are a filmmaker trying to get your work noticed, how is it possible to let your stuff shine through such a dense forest?
Even though some local filmmakers here in GR are finding it an effective channel, for me, YouTube is still not the best place to find a gem of a short film. But who knows what the future will hold. What do you think?
I agree with you Dave. I haven't spent all that much time on YouTube, but I just recently visited there because my brother told me he put a video there. I looked around for about 5 minutes, but I couldn't find it.
Maybe I need to sign up and spend some time learning how the site works, but at first glance its just a lot of random videos...
Posted by Pam on August 9, 2006 07:03 PM