Have online videos lowered the standards of television production?

I don't necessarily think that creating online videos and viewing them has lowered the standards of television production. The main way of getting access and publishing your own videos is YouTube, most of the videos that have been producted for Youtube are shot on low cost video cameras, or in some ocassions cameras in which are typically used for video calls on something like MSN. Youtube is a good way of posting your own videos and in some cases being spotted, an example of this is Justin Bieber, who went on to getting a recording contract after being spotted as talent on youtube.


I don't think there is much competition between online content which has been filmed in domestic conditions and those that have been filmed professionally. What i'm trying to put across is, alot of the footage in which has been filmed isnt great and if programmes such as eastenders used the same cameras and ways of filming it wouldn't look right. I think domestic videos are more fun to watch, and are interesting whereas alot of proffessionally filmed productions a much different aspect of media. 

On the other hand, i don't think that productions have as much pressure than before home-movies etc became popular. Paranormal activity ( the film ) is a great example of this. The film is basically an hour which looks like its been filmed as a home movie and they have used low-budget equipment to do so, this movie was very effective in stuff they were trying to put across and worked well. I think this movie is an example of opportunities in which proffesional companies could take on boared due to home-videos becoming more popular and are growing in amount, every day. 

 

This is a a shot from the film, paranormal actvity, as you can see its nothing clever and has an effect which makes it look like a normal homevideo. 

In conclusion, i think that online videos which have been domestically shot work well for the use of online viewing only, unless they are being interpretad into a movie which needs that online, low budget feel to it. Other than that i think that professional productions and domestic should be kept seperate.