Will the entertainment business become more Democratic? Has it already?
I argued with someone doing set design back in the 1990s that I thought it coming. With home computers, better and better video cameras (heck, they're in our phones now), you would see larger percentages of people entering the entertainment field and earning a living from it. He argued that the technology to challenge the established industry has existed a long time. People could record their own music since forever. Sure you had the incidental Debbie Gibson or Tiffany but they didn't really put a dent in the power of the establishment.
Now, not only are we seeing original IP on pay channels like HBO, but web channels. Heck, "Power" in a Sony original on Playstation.
I'm seeing youtube videos with incredible production values:
Back in the day, acting was a 95% unemployment field. Is it still? Anyone really making money posting their songs on Itunes and self publishing? Is the entertainment field more democratic than it was in the 1980s?
I argued with someone doing set design back in the 1990s that I thought it coming. With home computers, better and better video cameras (heck, they're in our phones now), you would see larger percentages of people entering the entertainment field and earning a living from it. He argued that the technology to challenge the established industry has existed a long time. People could record their own music since forever. Sure you had the incidental Debbie Gibson or Tiffany but they didn't really put a dent in the power of the establishment.
Now, not only are we seeing original IP on pay channels like HBO, but web channels. Heck, "Power" in a Sony original on Playstation.
I'm seeing youtube videos with incredible production values:
Back in the day, acting was a 95% unemployment field. Is it still? Anyone really making money posting their songs on Itunes and self publishing? Is the entertainment field more democratic than it was in the 1980s?