Movies Everywhere
You see a young executive in a public place staring into his laptop and you think Oh poor guy he is working so hard But in fact perhaps he is watching the latest movie on his computer. Movie watching all over the world is changing--and very quickly.Film companies are releasing DVDs a few months after the movie are in theaters and people are downloading movies from the internet onto their computers.
the art of filmmaking is also changing . People are making their own movies and putting them up on the Web.Every day millions of video clips go on the air for viewing by millions of people all over the world. Sites like YouTube or Dailymotion are becoming more and more popular.Anyone can make a short video and put it up on the Web for free.Many show pet tricks or silly things such as a pet turtle eating a lettuce leaf or an animal just staring at the camera.Consider the guy dancing in different places around the world He is dancing with a group of people under the Eiffel Tower in Paris with children in Timbuktu in Mail in front of the Sydney Opera House and at Sugar Loaf Mountain in Brazil. Many clips shoe people who are just sitting in front of the camera and talking about their lives . Some videos show candid shots of people who do not know they are going to be on the Web--like an angry man who is complaining to someone who is talking loudly on a cell phone on the bus.