Making Media Now:
Filmmaking In Transition
OPENING REMARKS
FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2007
A personal journey through the Macro
Forces Driving Radical Change in the
Media & Entertainment Industries
David Tamés, Filmmaker & Media Technologist, Kino-Eye.com
Slides available at: http://kino-eye.com/media-now-2007-opening/

Circa 1991: Apple introduces QuickTime, dismissed as
“tiny postage-stamp movies” on personal computers
A Personal Journey

Circa 1991: Apple introduces QuickTime, dismissed as
“tiny postage-stamp movies” on personal computers
Circa 1994: Making and Watching Movies on
Personal Computers, dismissed as “not real cinema”
A Personal Journey

Circa 1991: Apple introduces QuickTime, dismissed as
“tiny postage-stamp movies” on personal computers
Circa 1994: Making and Watching Movies on
Personal Computers, dismissed as “not real cinema”
Circa 1996: Web-Based Entertainment, the “East
Village” was an online soap-opera with QuickTime movie downloads
and a soundtrack CD, but web video was “not ready for prime time”
A Personal Journey

Circa 1991: Apple introduces QuickTime, dismissed as
“tiny postage-stamp movies” on personal computers
Circa 2006: YouTube marks an Inflection Point
Circa 1994: Making and Watching Movies on YouTube and other
video sharing sites
Personal Computers, dismissed as “not real cinema”
may still not be “real
cinema,” however, the
extent of the audience
Circa 1996: Web-Based Entertainment, the “East and its role in the
public imagination
Village” was an online soap-opera with QuickTime movie downloads
marks an inflection
and a soundtrack CD, but web video was “not ready for prime time”
point in the evolution
of the moving image.
A Personal Journey

4 Stages of Media Revolution
Audience
Distribution
Post-
Production Production
Camcorder Inexpensive NLE Internet Social Networking

4 Stages of Media Revolution
Circa 1988
Audience
Distribution
Post-
Production Production
Salient Characteristics:
Inexpensive cameras, now
anyone can shoot
Stage 1 Democratization of production

4 Stages of Media Revolution
NAB 1999
Audience
Distribution
Salient Characteristics:
Inexpensive editing,
Post-
now anyone can edit
Production Production
Stage 2 Democratization of post-production
Stage 1 Democratization of production

4 Stages of Media Revolution
Circa 2004
Audience
Distribution
Salient Characteristics:
High-speed Internet access
at home, progressive
Post-
download, anyone can share
Production Production
Stage 3 Democratization of distribution
Stage 2 Democratization of post-production
Stage 1 Democratization of production

4 Stages of Media Revolution
Stage 4 Connect supply and demand
through community
Circa 2006
Audience
Distribution
Post-
Salient Characteristics: Production Production
Group Forming, Two
Way, Innovation shifts to
the end-users Stage 3 Democratization of distribution
Stage 2 Democratization of post-production
Stage 1 Democratization of production

Evolution of the New Media Ecology
Three Examples of Emerging Models
blip.tv
YouTube
Providing media makers
Driving viral video and
with publishing tools
delivering a huge audience
Joost
Convergence of broadcast
television and internet video

Suggested Reading
The Wealth of Networks, Yochai Benkler, 2006
The Long Tail, Chris Anderson, 2006
The Future of Web Video, Scott Kirsner, 2006
Convergence Culture, Henry Jenkins, 2006
“If I have seen farther it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants.” — Isaac Newton

Image Credits & Copyright Notice
Is it a Macintosh II or is it a trivet? Roslindale Village Commuter Rail Stop
by Windell H. Oskay, evilmadscientist.com by David Tamés
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Making Media Now Odysseus
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Broadcast to the Night Books, Bristol library
by kitsu / Vince by Andrew Eason
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90906136/
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