You're right, Bill - but the great thing is, I would say that almost all of the handful of TV directors and creatives I know got into it originally (whatever their values now about success=audience) because they wanted to create, and be as good as they can be at creating challenging documentaries or drama. Now, in order to keep working, their goals have become the channels' goals - but maybe in future a lot of people like them won't have to make those compromises... unless they're genuinely really turned on by large audiences. And creative boundaries can be broken - conventions and received-wisdom ignored - as well. If my friends had their time again now, I wonder how many of them would have ended up working for The Man. At the time, they thought they had no choice if they wanted to make films and have people see them.
On 7 Feb 2007, at 06:22, Bill Cammack wrote: In a way, it all depends on what you're trying to do with your videoblog. Are you trying to make money, or are you trying to express yourself artistically or to people that know you and get something of personal value by watching your videos? -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
