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Youtube: it's not just about destroying audience attention spans!
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If you walk around downtown Manhattan long enough you'll eventually run into a film crew. Usually these aren't big movie shoots, most of the time they are just student film crews or small budget productions. Long time residents of the city are unfazed and go about their business. Yet sometimes you'll catch a really low budget shoot; usually just an actor and director; who happens to also be working the camera. These are the most interesting to watch. These two person production teams are completely undeterred by a lack of funds and dive into making whatever they're making. Most of the finished products end up on Youtube and usually die there, but sometimes the short features they make are the seeds to a bigger idea. These small productions allow their creators to work out their very rough ideas into something tangible. With a very small crew the people involved can communicate their own ideas and be heard. It is easy to laugh as you watch a director tell an actor to do something you may believe to be ridiculous, but to feed the artistic process a person must be willing to embarrass themselves. With websites like Youtube, where the goal is to offer an audience a quick fix from boredom, these two person production teams maybe the best way for people, who may not have the proper resources to make movies, an outlet to show their potential. New York has always been known as a city where art has flourished from the most unlikely of people. Let us all hope that in a few years that those writers, directors, and actors that you see on the street shooting their movies have brought something of value into theaters.
