Today I will be babbling on the topic of the film industry. I do realize that movies do not have all that much to do with news media but they are still media and I happen to be a cinema studies minor so I feel that topic is relevant. Now that I’m done justifying myself I can begin.
Technology and the internet are changing the way movies are being brought to their audiences. Movie theater attendances have gone down considerably in the last few years and with advances in home theaters, HDTV, crazy sounds systems and programs like Netflix it shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Netflix now offers this program where movies are sent to you straight through your computer, you don’t even have to open your mail box and forget about worrying that a DVD might be scratched. Crazy. How you get that file from your computer to your television is beyond me but I’m sure there is a way.
So what will all this do to the film industry? Will movie theaters eventually be a thing of the past? I always thought that movies that went straight to DVD were the lousy ones that just weren’t big enough to make it at the box office, but now they might just be of the most cutting variety. At least that’s what my roommate tries to tell me he reads about in Wired magazine, but I try to avoid all that technological propaganda at least until I read about it in the newspaper.
The point is that the times they are a changing and not just in terms of newspapers going online now we have to deal with movies also going online. And I guess if you think about it citizen journalism is to newspapers as Youtube is to Movies, which is actually strangely reassuring. Because I know I’m not the only one that would rather watch Scarlet Johansen in a real movie than watch Joe Shmoe fall off his skateboard captured on a cell phone camera.
Netflix madness
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