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"I just bought a new point and shoot camera for about two hundred bucks. It can shoot 1080p video. The same revolution that happened in music is about to happen

"I just bought a new point and shoot camera for about two hundred bucks. It can shoot 1080p video. The same revolution that happened in music is about to happen in movies and TV." But the music revolution - low-cost converters and mics, powerful laptops and inexpensive software - lets me record a good-quality pop track in my living room, minus live drums. Can you do set construction, lighting and shooting cheaply in yours? Or does the movie revolution require way more CGI than the music revolution required reverbs?

SwellJoe 15y ago
I'm just going to bookmark this comment, and someday I'll come back to it and have a chuckle about how short-sighted it is. A good music recording studio costs more than many movie sets...and yet, people manage to make records that sell hundreds of thousands of copies with a few thousand bucks worth of gear. I've worked on records and movies and in television. I have complete confidence that great films and great television shows will be made by independent artists in the coming years. Some early proof: http://www.watchtheguild.com http://www.watchtheguild.com - Shot with Canon DSLR cameras, mostly in bedrooms. http://www.drhorrible.com http://www.drhorrible.com - Cost $200k to make, and included seriously high end talent, like NPH and Captain Mal. Netflix and Hulu could easily fund shows like this. Or, an independent production company could start turning out series along these lines. It takes far fewer viewers to pay back $200k than it takes to pay back a million an episode...and every eyeball that is watching Dr. Horrible is not watching Weeds or whatever content Starz has exclusive rights to. Or, just browse WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Web_television_series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Web_television_series A huge amount of money is not required to make something fun to watch, and the number of people who realize it will only increase with time. I'm surprised someone on HN could be so short-sighted as to think that just because the old way of doing things can never be replicated on a tiny budget, it doesn't mean entertainment will not be produced in new ways on much smaller budgets. Doesn't matter how it's produced, or if it is up to the standards of high end movies. All that matters is that some people (even small numbers for any given film) tune into the new media rather than the old, and I'm certain some people will. I don't know anyone under the age of 30 that hasn't watched both the Guild and Dr. Horrible. That's what the future looks like, at least one aspect of it.

SwellJoe 15y ago

I'm just going to bookmark this comment, and someday I'll come back to it and have a chuckle about how short-sighted it is. A good music recording studio costs more than many movie sets...and yet, people manage to make records that sell hundreds of thousands of copies with a few thousand bucks worth of gear. I've worked on records and movies and in television. I have complete confidence that great films and great television shows will be made by independent artists in the coming years. Some early proof: http://www.watchtheguild.com http://www.watchtheguild.com - Shot with Canon DSLR cameras, mostly in bedrooms. http://www.drhorrible.com http://www.drhorrible.com - Cost $200k to make, and included seriously high end talent, like NPH and Captain Mal. Netflix and Hulu could easily fund shows like this. Or, an independent production company could start turning out series along these lines. It takes far fewer viewers to pay back $200k than it takes to pay back a million an episode...and every eyeball that is watching Dr. Horrible is not watching Weeds or whatever content Starz has exclusive rights to. Or, just browse WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Web_television_series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Web_television_series A huge amount of money is not required to make something fun to watch, and the number of people who realize it will only increase with time. I'm surprised someone on HN could be so short-sighted as to think that just because the old way of doing things can never be replicated on a tiny budget, it doesn't mean entertainment will not be produced in new ways on much smaller budgets. Doesn't matter how it's produced, or if it is up to the standards of high end movies. All that matters is that some people (even small numbers for any given film) tune into the new media rather than the old, and I'm certain some people will. I don't know anyone under the age of 30 that hasn't watched both the Guild and Dr. Horrible. That's what the future looks like, at least one aspect of it.