It’s been a while since YouTube has done this, but they’ve put up another feature-length movie (good quality, too). More specifically, it’s the documentary 10mph and I’d been following its progression since I stumbled upon its website a year or so ago… I mean, it’s a story about a film crew using a segway to zoom across America! Why wouldn’t I be interested?

I know this is not an ideal time to post an hour and a half video like this, but I’m doing it for several reasons. One, I can’t think of any content to post right now. Two, I think it’s important to support endeavors like these ones. Thirdly, it’s a pretty decent film (and the price is just right). Fourthly, I’m interested in this sort of “new-wave film-making”.

As someone who finds it difficult to be too subordinate in the creative process (no mailrooms for me), I’m constantly trying to create films or do projects or things, but it’s hard to get the big money support from studios/networks, so when I see DIY people finding a way to make their film without much money and then trying to figure out ways to make money for another film through the internet or through various mediums, I’m intrigued.

These are things I think about now because I know at one point I will probably need to exploit the web for some serious scrilla, so what do you think? Is getting a dollar for each fan you sign up a good way to go about things, when you have a venue like YouTube? Did you like the documentary? Did it feel like just another “Oh look, America can be quaint if you look past the stereotypes” movie, or did it show a new face that you’d not seen before? (I’m not trying to propose leading questions, just trying to get you to look at both sides)?

I personally don’t think this film would succeed in theatres and that it is much better suited for the internet. Not saying it was made with incapable hands by any means, but it does lack a certain professionalism that I’ve come to expect. Is this a bad thing? Will movies start being made for the internet, just as they started being made for TV?