Response to YouTube.

It's pretty fascinating to see how far and how popular the website YouTube has become over the years. It basically started as a place to share original videos to a small community who wanted to document their memories, now YouTube has turned into this personal video diary. Anyone can create an account and if you want your voice heard and share your thoughts on just about anything then YouTube allows you to post just that. YouTube also gives average people to start networking and branding themselves in a sense because talent agents search and scan on websites like these for new artists to sign. YouTube allows people to express themselves in any way they want as well as giving them the opportunity to post and share their experiences, memories and talents in a bigger way than you could’ve years past.

I thought the video of “Noah takes a photo of himself” was interesting. It’s cool to see how you can take clips and photos from anywhere and create a whole video about that just one thing in still shots. The vlogs are again a great way for people to express themselves in a different manner than that has been created before. There used to be websites like Xanga and other online diaries that you could write in but it doesn’t get your message across as powerfully as a video log would. And it’s interesting to see that since one person started a vlog or some sort of video (even the crazy dancing wedding proposals) that not everyone wants to do something similar and post it on YouTube.

Trailer Ideas

I have been trying to pinpoint a specific topic to create my Trailer on. Since I am a public relations major, social media and its effects are an easy topic for me to choose. However, I have created a blog from last year about health and fitness. Naturally, I have become very knowledgable about this topic as well as having a personal interest in it.

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My thoughts about my trailer now have changed gears completely. I have decided to shy away from the healthcare idea for my trailer. I decided to do so because, although there are a ton of resources to maintain and track your diet online, it usually becomes the same few sites. Therefore, I have decided to create a trailer about the social media revolution itself. e.g. how it got started, how popular/important social media is now to companies, and how did social media evolve from previous media decades ago.

I would include still-shot pictures from past generations about media and incorporate live video about social media from today and how it works and wwhere is it advancing to.