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So where is this all going? You know, the internet thing... The answer is an easy one: Cable Access TV. Even modest websites are deploying their own self-produced videos as never before. One reason for this is the ease of incorporating videos on anyone's website using YouTube. The other is the availability of relatively high quality, low cost video recording devices that come with easy mash-up editing software. Now everyone can be eccentric and boring at the same time online, just like with Cable Access TV. You can reach any audience with your own videos made right in the office or next door or down the hall or outside in the parking lot. |
Growing Trends with online Videos:
- Tutorials: you can watch a video on how to do most anything any number of ways. Most all of them are poorly-produced, just like Cable Access!
- Expert interviews: now, any expert can expound with their own videos online. We'll find the majority of them poorly-produced, just like Cable Access!
- News features: new products, new procedures, new rules, regulations, new anything can now be on video, online. Some will be professionally done. But just some.
- Tours: of offices, houses, districts, parks, outside attractions, inside attractions, can be found online in video form. Most of these tours will be OK production-wise since it takes some thinking to thread together scenes for any tour.
- Events: Don't miss that city council meeting: just go online and view it on video. Or last summer's Fourth of July Fireworks concert. Already there in most localities throughout the United States.
All this has been around for several years, but not in the density and presence found today. With the Skyping of Smart Phones and other portable devices, expect more video of all kinds to be deployed online, everywhere. Not much of it will be professionally done, but there will be moving pictures with sound, just like Cable Access TV. And always a willing audience to sort through it all. We seem to be a nation of people willing to sort through hours and hours of marginal content online to view the very rare and occasional "pearl." Expect new programs to do the sorting of video content for us in the near future.
-Tim Corwin
Jan. 2011
