Reflections 18/11/09
November 18, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsvN-Sb9434
SYSTEMJAP. (2008). Un-edited Version: “The Dark Knight” Re-enactment: Joker’s Video Threat. [Online video]. Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsvN-Sb9434. [Accessed on 18/11/09].
This video really captures the idea of reenactment culture. The film ‘Dark Knight’ was hugely popular when it was first released, and so what better way of getting noticed and getting more hits on your video than by creating a video of a popular movie. However, there is one question I still need to answer and this is why exactly do people take the time to produce these videos?
Well, according to John C. Dvorak, there are 2 main reasons why people are doing this.
“Two things seem to be at work. The first is the incredible desire people have to share video clips with each other. That’s now apparent.
What’s not so apparent, unless you actually have tried to use the various video sharing sites, is that nobody — and I mean nobody — made it easy until YouTube.
By merely combining a pent-up demand with ease-of-use you get the YouTube phenomenon. It’s brain dead simple, but I’m telling you that is all there is to it.”
JOHN C. DVORAK. (2006). Missing the point about YouTube. MarketWatch. Weblog. 10th Aug. Available from: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-people-are-missing-the-point-about-youtube. [Accessed on: 18/11/09].
This is a good point here, people have a ‘desire’ to share video clips with others, but again, why is this? And also that it is now much more accessible for users to do so nowadays, because as stated above, no other sites made it easy until YouTube. People now have the tools and the technology to be able to easily share and watch content whenever they wish and with the convergence of technologies such as YouTube being installed onto mobile phones and enabling mobile phone uploads then YouTube is really covering all bases of technology in order to keep this phenomenon going. However, what John Dvorak does not find out is why are people uploading to YouTube, yes they have a desire, but what causes this desire, is it because people just want to involved with what is happening around them or is it simply because people have always wanted to do this, it is, as John Dvorak says, that the technology is now readily available to them?
