How To Make Your Own TV Show
By vine | September 20th, 2011If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent many, many hours of your life seeing television. From sit-coms and game shows to cartoons and reality live TV, we’ve sat in front of the box for a large part of our life watching stories of one sort or another. What we mightn’t have known is that for every one show that gets on the air there were probably a hundred that didn’t make it. This might be hard to believe with shows like ‘The Joe Schmo Show” and “The Simple Life” out there but our world is a strange place with weird people, now isn’t it? However with the advent of the Internet and legal file-sharing you can now film your own online TV show and put it up on the Web for everyone to see. If it’s any good, word will get around. That’s how the Internet works: Word of back talk.
You no longer have to make a pilot show and sit in front of a large group of executives praying that they will like your material. Television is mind for your computer, literally. You can already download some of your favorite corporation-backed shows on the Internet legally, for a small price. It is a commonly held opinion that in the not-to-distant-future computers and televisions will turn one, a flat digital form replacing your admonisher. Eventually all TV channels and individual shows will have websites wherever you can download and stream their programs. The interesting new phenomenon is that you can join in the fun too. There’s a low barrier to entry the Internet TV game. We have now been given the freedom to produce, and to share our stories with the rest of the box-watching world.
Check out http://top-liveinternet-tv.com/. The site is a couple of the multitudinous masses that are now macrocosm put up on the Web for people to watch and share. It can almost be intellection of as an artist’s exhibition, where you and your TV-maniac friends finally get to show your shows to the rest of us. I get the feeling that the whole idea is based around the construct of freedom.
As evermore people are going to try and make a dollar out of something cool and new on the someone scene. If you look at the show on http://top-liveinternet-tv.com/ you will see a pretty funny internet TV program. It is sponsored by Sprite, a division of the Coca-Cola keep company. There’s nothing really wrong with this (artists have to get their funding from somewhere) except that it could mayhap closure in nearly the same paradigm as the old TV company-controlled structure, if Sprite achieves power to dictate what content goes into the show. There’s a name that has been coined for this sort of behavior and in this case the product-placement, commercially-based Internet program fits into this category perfectly: Astroturf.