Have online videos lowered the standards of television production?

TV used all about watching good quality productions but now a day’s many people are deciding to watch lower quality productions online. By people watching these people now don’t expect that high quality that the TV gives you. As many people now have easy access to the internet as home, YouTube is becoming a very popular way to watch videos and to add your own short movie that you have made. Many people are also using things like BBC I player to catch up on the programmes that have been on a few days before.  By people watching these online they are not watching it in as high quality to which they could have seen it on TV. These two websites are very popular as they are free to watch and YouTube is also free to upload your videos. Many videos on YouTube are of poor quality but people will still watch it as they are free. In the past two years there have been a few films that are done in a home movie style. An example of there is paranormal activity. By people watching this it makes people think that they can make videos like this.

Equipment used for these productions vary. For example videos on YouTube won’t have a very high budget, so will either be filmed o a mobile phone or a digital camera. The general public wouldn’t have a lot of money as they wouldn’t be given money to make these productions like big companies. A popular small camera that is easy to carry round would be a Sony handy cam which can vary in price from £150 to £700. These would film in good quality, unlike your mobile phone. Big companies that make big production can spend up to £20,000,000 on a camera’s. The quality of these would be a lot better compared to a little Sony handy cam but these have professional part for example that will shoot in HD.

Overall the way people watch television has had a huge change over the years. Television is now more accessible for people of this generation to watch as you now have video on demand and IPTV which allows people to watch television when they want. As you now can watch television on you phones, iPods it is easier to watch when you are on the go.