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Excerpt from the Tribeca Film Institute site:
by Ingrid Kopp @fromthehip
"This is the fourth and final post in a series of guest posts from Ingrid Kopp, the U.S. Director of Shooting People. Ingrid, who leads workshops on film, social media, engagement, and technology as part of her work at Shooting People, discusses how the latest trends in technology are changing and shaping the filmmaking process. Follow Ingrid’s latest Tweets at @fromthehip.
There is a tendency to become rather extremist when it comes to all things digital. Either the web is going to change the world with universal digital access, social media and new platforms and transform us all into creative producers tapping into a global “cognitive surplus” OR it is going to turn us all into stupid, attention-lacking, piracy-practicing drones who revel in LOLCats and expect to get everything for free. The truth is probably somewhere in between. Cory Doctorow says it best, I think: “Technology giveth and technology taketh away.” Whatever your position on digital technology, the genie is out of the bottle and it’s not going to go back in (although it may be at risk of being squeezed in various ways by corporations but that’s a subject for another post) so it seems to me that the important thing right now is to make sure that we are creating the kind of digital future we all want...."
Read full post on tribecafilminstitute.org/blog/106776664.html
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