Let's get ourselves in the Internet movie maker's shoes. Most likely, he is just a student with a little time in his hands, most likely because he's ran out of money for a gig, so his friends left him. Or he is really passionate about his newfound art that he dreams of someday making money out of it or getting some recognition for his creativity. And so during that fateful semestral break, adrenalin is flowing high with lots of sleepless nights ahead. Even in his sleep, the idea for an Internet movie never departs from our hero. His dreams take him from one vivid story sequence to another.
Storyboard or no storyboard, he proceeds to shoot the film the next morning, his girlfriend in tow (picture this: just last night she left him for the gig, now she wants to be a film star!).The ambitious girlfriend is even willing to go all the way in the park, but our hero does not intend to carve a name for himself as an adult entertainment honcho, so he firmly says "No, no!"
That is, even when he hasn't seen his girlfriend naked before. The worn-out Panasonic camcorder starts rolling, oblivious to the availability of a Sony VCR in stores everywhere, knowing fully well that its master can't afford the competition anyway. By the end of the day, all the tapes are full, and the filmmaker goes home, camera, not girlfriend in tow (she left for a gig again). With a video capture card already installed in his PC, our film prodigy starts to download his footages into his hard drive and hope they all fit in. He was lucky!
The USB port was working, and the video capture card was really in good condition (which was a miracle, considering he bought it from a nearby computer junk store for less than a hundred bucks). Rarin' to edit, our boy goes to the Microsoft Media Player site and after reading that voluminous FAQ on the On-Demand Producer, decides to download it to edit his video. Now if our boy were any 19-year old of this generation, he will adopt to the software like fish to water. And there it is, a fully edited 15-minuter (he overdid himself again) in streaming media format.
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