Rebuilding Rob

As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today

Which format of video content do you like most? TikToks, Youtube Videos, TV shows, movies, etc.

20 or even 10 years ago, I would’ve told you that my preferred format of media is movies. But today I can say, with conviction that television shows are my favorite form of video content.

I just got on the TikTok bandwagon sometime last year and I must admit that the site is insanely addictive. Its algorithm for choosing videos based on your personality preferences seems almost psychic at times. But while I enjoy watching TikTok videos, I find that I almost never make any of my own. The company has made great strides to allow craters to make longer form content, as opposed to the 15 second videos that we initially saw. But still, I don’t really feel the need to make your videos of myself lip-synching songs like I’m a 12-year-old girl. TikTok is still relatively young, in its infancy and facts compared to movies or even television. It will be curious to see how this platform evolves over the next several years. .

YouTube is great. The how to videos that I find on the website has told me to fix countless things around my home. As something of a pop culture junkie, I love hearing the analysis and histories that fans with some of my favorite TV and film properties will put together. Also, as a teacher, I’ve come to rely heavily on YouTube for instructional purposes. YouTube stumbled a bit with some of that early fours into premium streaming. However, it sounds as if YouTube TV is becoming a format for watching television. 

As I mentioned before, episodic television works great for some shows. It worked great for the Star Trek franchise for decades. Every episode you had a different planet of the weekend slightly bailed human rights issue of the week. This was great for selling reruns two different TV stations around the country. You wouldn’t have to watch Star Trek from the beginning to really pick up on what was going on on the show.

The lasting legacy of the so-called “Netflix Era“ may be the fact that television has finally come of age. wow the self contained episodic story to informate of the past is good, especially for syndicated reruns of TV shows, TV writers have realized that by using more of a serialize format, it gives them much greater opportunities to develop characters and their stories.

It could just be that serialized story telling is the flavor of the moment. After all, it is what gave birth to the “Netflix binge” that traditional over the year television and cable stations have tried to emulate for the last few years.

I still like movies, don’t get me wrong. And when done right, movie makers can still tell great stories. The special effects budget that is available for featuring length of motion pictures dwarfs anything that is done on television. but over the last several years, we’ve seen motion picture Studios become terrified at the thought of taking a chance on anything new. They would rather remake old movies or pull existing IP’s out of mothballs to go to the well one more time; rather than taking a chance with something new and different.

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