Even before Youtube, there was Internet video although it tremendously grew with the emergence of Youtube and other social video networks. In fact in the past 3 years internet video production has grown into a large business and companies like Revision3 and Cnet produce web videos as their company’s service. Many have even built expensive studios to record their video however, I believe that the next generation of web video producers will record most of their video out of their homes and build their own inexpensive sets and do everything with what they have in their home and possibly buy a few extra items. The reason I believe this is because High definition cameras are relatively inexpensive and allow people to produce high quality video at very low cost. When it used to cost millions of dollars to build a television studio it now can be done for a few hundred!

One of the best examples of this is Tecker 911. In the beginning we just used Plaz’s DV camera for recording and living room and TV for a set with a bunch of regular house lights for lighting and for editing we just used Plaz’s Dell Desktop computer with Windows Movie Maker. Although it was a very hacked-together setup, it worked and accomplished the goal. After sometime, we bought microphones, borrowed a lighting kit from school, and when Reed joined the group, we were able to use his HD camcorder. Even after we got all that equipment we only spent around $100 and with that small amount of expense, we produce very high quality video. This is partially becauseequipment has become less expensive as technology becomes more advanced but, it is also because we were able to make use of what we had like tripods and TVs that were already at Plaz’s house. I believe that this will be the future of video production because it allows anyone to create video at extremly low costs and also allows work to be done with fewer people because the workflow is simplified and this will also be a key in the future of video because it makes things easier and more cost effective this is the way and will be crucial to the continuation of video production in these tough economic times.