Catfish

Directors - Henry Joost

Ariel Schulman

Producers - Andrew Jarecki

Marc Smerling

Henry Joost

Ariel Schulman

Funded/distributed by Universal.

The legitimacy of Catfish has been questioned by the critics and viewers as the events that occur seem to be too convenient, with the wording also being perfectly adequate to each situation.

1. How has the Online Age revolutionised the film industry?

The online age has been revolutionised through the film industry by open access knowledge - allowing anyone to share their creativity online. This is shown in catfish whereby Angela is able to share her artwork with someone from a different state though the internet. Though she does so using a different name. Judith Butler's theory is performativity, meaning "its not who you are, its what you do". Angela creates a web of facebook connections, a whole society in which she is able to create a new identity of her own life that she would have wanted earlier. She is a lonely character behind a screen of burdens as she looks after her husband's two disabled children. Her relationship with Niev is one that she would have wanted herself when she was younger. 

Film and Music changes through internet

Music
*Shops are affected as the sales are mostly done by the internet now.
*Profits are less as a lot of people illegally download their music off website like lime wire.
*Record labels are not making as much money as now anyone can make music. e.g youtube and Justin Bieber.
*People are filming concerts and downloading them onto the internet, so artists are making less money also.

Film
*Piracy-illegal recordings from cinemas being downloaded onto the internet.
*Less DVDs etc are sold as you can purchase everything online.
*Cinemas are suffering as films get released a lot sooner onto the internet, so people wait for that.
*It is a lot easier for people to purchase DVD'S from abroad which are yet to be released in their own country over the internet through the advancement in DVD players with multi-regional functions.

How online media have developed in film and music.

Online media has effected music in many ways resulting in a huge change in the industry and a huge potential change could later severely effect the industry. For instance, music shops and retailers are suffering due to the vast amount of music now bought over the internet, 50 years ago people had to go to their local record store to purchase music, but now it can be done at home at your own convenience. This therefore means that music stores are having too close due to loss of profits including larger chains like HMV. Another cause of loss of profit can be as a result of the opportunity to illegally download music off of websites such as the ever popular limewire. Today, people of all backgrounds and classes have the chance of making their music, and becoming a youtube sensation. Before, one had to have a record label behind them to even consider the chance of creating a single, however today with the technology readily available, young stars such as Justin Bieber becoming famous as they were spotted over the internet.

Key Terms

Wikinomics: Book by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. Published in December 2006, called 'How mass collaboration changes everything'. It explores how some companies in the early 21st century have used mass collaboration and open-source technology.
Web 2.0: Term associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web.
Participatory Culture: Where the consumers take an active part in the development in a product, acting as the producers and contributors.  
Peering: A voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the consumers of each network. The true definition is 'Settlement free' meaning that neither party pays the other for the exchanged traffic.
Digital Natives: A young person who was born during or after the general introduction of digital technology, and through interacting with digital technology from an early age, has a greater understanding of its concepts.
Democratization: The transition to a more democratic political regime.
We-think: Explores how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information.
Interactivity: There are three levels: No-interactive, when a message is not related to previous messages. Reactive, when a message is related only to one immediately previous message and interactive, when a message is related to a number of previous messages and to the relationship between them.
The long tail: Refers to the statistical property that a larger share of population rests within the tail of a probability distribution than observed under a normal distribution.