Some made it. Most did not.
Luckily, after many years passed, there came a bright new hope in the form of the Internet, which any old Tom, Dick, or Harry could use and suddenly you didn't need to tunnel your way under the fence to the promised land. You could instantly get there from the comfort of your own living room without ever having to get out of your pajamas!
This week I spoke to Ross Brown, professor at Chapman University and author of Byte-Sized Television: Create Your Own TV Series For The Internet who not only let me in on some of his books secret, but shared a few shocking nuggets of his own.
Hi, I'm good how are you?
Great! Your book, Byte-Sized Television: Create Your Own TV Series For The Internet, is coming out in February. One former student of yours who hasn't even read the book said that if it is even half as informative as the class you teach, then it's worth its weight in gold. How do you react to warm words of praise?
Well, gosh its great they say that and they aren't even waiting for a grade from me. It's awfully nice.
The Internet is kind of like the Wild West of entertainment. There are no sheriffs or guys standing guard at the gates only letting the elite few in. Does this mean the end of the money men in suits who used to hold the power to green light or veto your idea?
I don't think it's the end of the suits. Some people said that years ago when the Internet was breaking big with publishing and it's changed the publishing business and it's changed the music business and it will change the video entertainment business. It's already changing it there. But there's always going to be a place for the suits somewhere in this because there's different types of content. I don't think individual people can go out and make Avatar.
