Today, there are so many easy and convenient ways to share your home movies. Click the play button to see the many fun options available today:



NOTES
There’s been a big shift on why we make home movies. People used to make home movies to preserve memories for the future. They’ll replay the movie at their children’s weddings or at a grandparent’s 70th birthday or something. Today, I make home movies to watch and share right now, not the future.
What’s driving this shift is technology?

There are so many ways to instantly share my movies. YouTube.com, blip.tv, email, the ubiquitous ipod is all about sharing your movies instantly.

More and more people have fast access to the internet and Video is becoming an important communication medium. I was on Amazon.com and the home page had a video of an interview with an author.

Because it’s so easy to share videos right away, I’ve even stopped burning DVDs. I used to spend a lot of time burning DVDs, make beautiful DVD covers, and mail it off to distant friends and family. Then I’ll call them every day to see if they’ve watched the DVD. I would be so disappointed if they didn’t drop everything and watched my masterpiece right away.

Then one day, because I was in a hurry, I uploaded my movie on the web and emailed it to my friends and family. Within 3 hours, I got feedback from my nieces in Framingham, my sister in Indonesia, my brother in Singapore. And they forwarded the email to other family members and before I knew it the whole extended clan knew where I went last Summer for vacation.

The Video iPod, iTouch, iPhone is a beautiful thing. I can take my movies with me wherever I go. It’s a great gift for a traveling business mom or dad.

Homework

1. Go on the web and checkout www.YouTube.com and www.blip.TV.
2. For now, just browse around and get some laughs watching some of those videos (Later you’ll learn how to upload your own video on one of these free video hosting sites).