Quote: Griff @ February 1, 2008, 3:13 PMNathan Barley was well f**king jackson.
Yeah it was you Rapist! 
Is User Driven content a good idea? Page 2
"Rise Of The Idiots" happened!
"...jabbering into their mobile twit machines to their cool mate about that video where the woman is bummed by a wolf..."
Yeah. If they're gonna do that, we may as well search on youtube ourselves and find stuff we actually want to watch.
I guess it's aimed towards the demographic of license payers who haven't got PC'c. Mainly people in retirement homes.
THEY GOT WII NOW BBC! THEY DON'T NEED TO WATCH THAT SHITE!
I suppose I'll have to wipe my ass with my 7 episode sitcom, and film myself with my phone, lighting a fart or something. That's good TV isn't it?
Well, I guess my sitcom will be cheap enough to film myself with private funding as I have the technical knowledge and contacts to pull it off, but as for getting it on a TV channel, it's sounding like a waste of time.
I'm looking into VOD services and think that's the future. Pay for what you watch, everyone wins. If there was one of those clip shows on VOD I'd imagine it wouldn't fare very well. What do you reckon?
Quote: Hardcorr @ February 12, 2008, 6:10 AMI'm looking into VOD services and think that's the future.
Aaron disagrees, and hopes that that never happens.
Quote: Hardcorr @ February 12, 2008, 6:10 AMIf there was one of those clip shows on VOD I'd imagine it wouldn't fare very well. What do you reckon?
Aaron agrees.
I really like some user generated content on Youtube. I subscribe to Zebro and while some of their stuff is shit, (especially some of their recent stuff..I think that's because they got some television deal recently) a lot of their shorts are hilarious!
Here is my favorite called the Love Corner and Laundry Day I thought was also really funny.
Also the Lonely Island guys got their start on the web. Plus there is a lot of great professional stuff on the web like "the Current", "Gay Robot" and all that great stuff on the "Funny or Die" website.
Here's why I think it's a bad idea - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0JEVqxTiBs
From the current issue of Private Eye:
Broadcasting watchdog OFCOM last month issued its first ruling on the issue of user-generated content.
The ruling followed the broadcast on Sumo TV, headed by former Loaded editor James Brown, of what it described as a "mobile phone video of an adult frightening a young child (approximately five years old)... the child was clearly extremely distressed and started screaming, crying and at one point attempted to run away."
As well as ruling that the clip breached the broadcasting code on three counts, the watchdog issued a note to all broadcasters warning them that "channels broadcasting considerable amounts of user-generated content may attempt to place too much responsibility for ensuring compliance with the code with the individual user" and must perform "robust" checks on anything submitted to them by viewers, despite the fact that this would inevitably "limit the amount of user-generated content it can air."
With an impeccable sense of timing, BBC Three controller Danny Cohen chose the same week to announce the yoof channel's relaunch - sorry, "multi-platform rebirth" - which will involve "handing over some of the channel's airtime to our young audiences - user-generated content will be at the heart of the peak-time schedule."
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User-driven content is mostly a load of shite but even where it's not it belongs on Youtube, not on the bloody Beeb.
Aaron agrees.
Quote: Leevil @ February 12, 2008, 1:52 PMHere's why I think it's a bad idea - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0JEVqxTiBs
I have watched that video 3 times now and I can't figure out what they are saying after (what I think he says is) "I banged my head Mrs Smith" after that I think she's singing and I don't know what else is going on. 
Quote: Curt @ February 12, 2008, 5:42 PMI have watched that video 3 times now and I can't figure out what they are saying after (what I think he says is) "I banged my head Mrs Smith" after that I think she's singing and I don't know what else is going on.
I messed up the punchline. He says, "I don't know, I banged my head".
Still, I challenge anyone not to laugh at this old chestnut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU
Quote: Leevil @ February 12, 2008, 1:52 PMHere's why I think it's a bad idea - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0JEVqxTiBs
What. The. FUCK. ?
Quote: James Williams @ February 12, 2008, 5:57 PMStill, I challenge anyone not to laugh at this old chestnut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU
I just feel sorry for him.