A New World

After having my digital camera for 2 years, I finally realized it had a video camera switch to it!  It works very well, too.  My traditional video camera is a bulky dinonsaur, the type where you actually put a VHS tape into the camera.  It works, though.  But I just haven't felt the urge to lug that monster around on my shoulder.

Well, I tested my compact camera out and also tested its translating to Youtube.  Works like a charm!  So I'm thinking that I might take the camera around New York City with me and provide some video, some funny and/or enlightening New York moments for the Unscripted crowd.

My nephews tend to send me very funny Youtube videos.  Youtube seems to be the new television.  With the writer strike on, will the already dwindling TV audience defect to Youtube?  Have they already and have I been as out of it as my archaic albatross of a video camera?

It seems like a new world.  We actors need to take note of the changes!

--Jim Todd

Comments

[RJ Rude]

I have one of those old vhs camcorders where you actually put the vhs tape in it. They suck but it was what got me my first acting job. I used it to shoot a crazy fight scene with a few other actors and sent it in to a couple industry contacts and boom , I got cast in a action film. I think youtube is useful to us as actors and/or film makers depending on your goal in the industry because you can make a simple little video and post it on the site and end up with 100 or more job offers from it. Alot of industry people watch videos on youtube so its a way for those who dont have contacts to gain them and for the aspiring actor or filmmaker to become a paid actor or filmmaker.

[JimTodd]

Thanks for the reminder about getting myself out there on tape, and congrats on getting work from it.

Glad you didn't have to get suckered into paying a fortune for your reel to get work!