Home
Is New Media poised to take over the entertainment industry?
Share
Delicious
Digg
Facebook
Reddit
Stumble Upon
Technorati
Mixx
Sphinn
Twitter
SphereIt
Propeller
Gmarks
Newsvine
Yahoo! My Web
Live Journal
Blinklist
E-mailMade Popular Jan 21 2008
# Ongoing Writers’ strike over their share of potential profits from programming on the Internet and other new media is acting as a catalyst in the shift of live action television and films to New Media. # Tech has facilitated artists to become entrepreneurs and get out of the clutches of studio moguls and also facilitating the creation and delivery of professionally made content directly to the end user. # Consumers drifting more towards self engaging activities on Internet. # New media tools have unleashed a revolutionary business model for entertainment media allowing anybody to dominate, from production and marketing to even distribution.
Add Images and Videos
Close X
Recommended Tags or Keywords
Search by Tags or Keywords
Selected Media ( You can Upload only Six media )
Sorry no picture found for this combination of tags. Try to search minimum number of tags at once
RSS 
Tobias
Jan 21 2008
Chicago,
United States
For sure...it has already taken over. i think the entertainment industry is out of business for the year 2008 and I think this year will be marked in history books for its downfall. New Media is the next frontier for the entertainment industry adding a new layer of engagement to any existing PR, marketing and web initiative. I think New Media has reinvented the VNR, putting the power of creation and distribution in the hands of those with a camera, PC, and a broadband connection – all you have to be is a little marketing savvy and an understanding of the pains and needs of the people you're trying to reach...cheers…Lights, Camera and Action.
Comment Link
No, it cannot take over traditional entertainment industry.
At best it will become another outlet to disseminate entertainment content.
After all, no amount of technology innovations over the last five thousand years has been able to do kill the folk theater or professional theater.
New media make shake up some domains but eventually it will become another medium by which entertainment companies will make their revenues.
At best it will become another outlet to disseminate entertainment content.
After all, no amount of technology innovations over the last five thousand years has been able to do kill the folk theater or professional theater.
New media make shake up some domains but eventually it will become another medium by which entertainment companies will make their revenues.
New media is indeed breathing new life into entertainment and with that it continues to reinvent the whole industry concept but I can assure you, contrary to executive belief, adding spin to press releases as a method for instilling enthusiasm and demonstrating leadership to readers is ineffective, a turn-off and, it may actually incite backlash and public ridicule.
Existing technologies would certainly face challenges from new ones. Own might argue - Did movies kill live theater? No! Has Internet or TV killed the publishing business? No! All are surviving in their own niche. But here technology is at war, which apparently is more powerful the way it’s empowering the common masses. Studio moguls have failed to learn the lessen fast and will pay the price, but they’ll survive, but needless to say, only in the short run. The crux is – new media will finally win, we’ll - knowingly or unknowingly - help it win!
Writers’ Strike has forced four major studios to cancel dozens of television writers’ contracts for the next season and I think we are witnessing the epic change of entertainment industry. The capability is growing with the technology and the corporations may choose to put their investment in other places than the expensive production of live action television and films. However, it will be very disheartening to see no Oscars this time around.
Screenwriters should not miss the opportunity provided by the Internet. We’re indeed waiting for good scripts on the net without censorship – with great stuff readily available, who needs a broadcaster. The future is now!
Of Course and this is just the beginning because new media is getting best of technologies...
If Hollywood writers are dreaming of competing with studio moguls, they’re absolutely wrong. Even best written scripts flop on screen and that too with all high profile publicity stunts. And who said that marketing content online is free? Moreover, even if screenwriters holds up the mast and go ahead, who’ll guard the piracy on the highly competitive net. If end users are not paying for your movie or not able to find it in the net labyrinth, it’s doomed. Good content will survive - but still you’ve to market it.
Increased rumblings between writers and the production houses have been heard but the real issue at stake is not the representation of animation and reality show writers or even the vaunted problem of writers’ online percentages. It is something far more apocalyptic – the future of Hollywood itself.
it will be far more intelligent to put your investment in new places like New Media than the expensive production houses. We will definitely see more of it in the near future but with the writers initializing the step i think we'll see it coming fast at us setting a stage for old to die. While to the point of folk theater or professional theater, i think they died long ago. ask a majority if they have ever entered a theater.
Please stay on strike, my daughter went from Cs to straight As!! Strike for the sake of the children!!! And yes New media is the next big thing but by then my daughter will be over with studies ;)
Hey! It’s too early to say whether new media will kill the hegemony of the studios, the technology is still evolving and moreover, the consumers too are not yet ready to that an extent from where original creator of a particular piece of art could fill his coffers…to be frank, it’s not that easy…they’ll be dumped. Youtube, BitTorrent, DivX, Video-blogging, and other free tools are provoking enough to unleash a revolution, enabling writers to release their own shows with the help of producers and performers directly of their own without the help of studios, but the overall creativity will decline; the big Hollywood Magic will be dead and so will the entertainment. Imagine everybody making movies and movie buffs like you and me not able to click a single blockbuster to the top. The strike is good, I’m in favor of it…writers have the right to decide the price of their product…but it’s business and everybody will try to have the largest share of the pie. I doubt, Studios don’t have a plan keeping in mind the new media take over thing.
So, the writers want to do business. Good, go ahead, no one can stop you, you deserve it. But my question is, while playing the new media tactics involving virtual teams of performers and producers, where you’ll end? The answer is – into the hands of same studios, however, now in the virtual world – arranging for best artists for your script, marketing it so that at least a few users click and download it when it’s released. These firms will play the role of Studios, but on a smaller scale. So, who wins?
I doubt that with the help new media we can produce great enjoyable movies. Check the pop music scenario, check every next band on MySpace and you will have the answer.
I completely agree what Ravinder said in his view point. There is no alternative to creative brains.
Another aspect of new media we’re missing out here is the more use of animation. Anyone can use software to model more realistic human figures and settings. Digital revolution boosted by right talent can create miracles that a standard film can’t. Writers now can’t be forced to create stories around a scene set by a third party. New media will rule and the WGA strike has only added fuel to the fire.
Is New Media poised to take over the entertainment industry?
A forced period of reexamination…I must say the silver lining in a very dark cloud.
A forced period of reexamination…I must say the silver lining in a very dark cloud.
The bottom line is, Hollywood doesn’t have any control on what you see on Internet. The online program guides on your Apple TV, Tivo will be ruled by sites offering quality and not what Hollywood wants, ultimately making users more discriminating.
New Media??? What is this phenomenon? How can Internet space pose any kind of challenge to a space in newspaper or for that matter in movie halls. It can never happen. The battle is for credibility. New media is expanding garbage.
Frankly speaking, it is pointless to discuss who will win here. In entertainment industry, the only people who dictate the terms are those:
1. who are really creative,
2. who know the pulse of consumers and
3. most importantly, who have the ability to create ripples with the final product. Doesn’t matter whether it’s created by a studio mogul or some fresh arts graduate on Internet.
1. who are really creative,
2. who know the pulse of consumers and
3. most importantly, who have the ability to create ripples with the final product. Doesn’t matter whether it’s created by a studio mogul or some fresh arts graduate on Internet.
It would be in the writers' best interests to come to some kind of resolution, If the strike drags on much longer, there's always the chance that Americans really will destroy their TVs and find new interests. however, it'll take a while to get a sense of who might be at the receiving end.
It depends upon technological support and advancement and how many countries have such facilities? it may happen but people will have to wait for long long time..
whatz new media...... sum kind of internet thingy???????? media in internet 'd alwayz been der...... der r now more tv channelz den ever before.... more ppl r going to moviez........ need i say more???? but den who cares?????
youtube, metacafe, google video, audio streams, video streams r now hot and growing and becoming more and more popular. live shows r webcasted. so it is gradually taking over. it will be threat to entertainment when very hi speed broadband become common.
Add your Comment
