All Motion Picture formats up until now have been developed with regards to technological and commercial constraints. The 30 minute Sitcom, the feature film, the half hour news show, the hour drama, the 30-second commercial. All are standard formats that were developed because of a business and/or bandwidth limitations. Now we’re sort of in the dawning of a new age of the short form video. Also developed with an eye toward limitations, bandwidth, attention span etc. But as we move on to where those constraints are lifted, where non-commercial or commercial motion picture content can co-exist in the places where traditionally long form motion pictures have been viewed (namely television sets in living rooms) but now without the constraints of the old business models or bandwidth limits, what new formats are possible? Should we still be thinking in terms of the old formats like sit-com, hour show, and feature film? Do these things mean anything anymore? Should they? Do they serve any other purpose outside of the limitations of (what are likely to be) old business models? What about truly personal forms? The personal video message–meant for one or a few? This is a new format of motion picture constructed mainly for it’s purpose not to fit within commercial or technical limits.

I guess I approach these things by deconstructing them to what they are at their core; Human communication. Human beings communicate by telling storys. And when human communication, or story telling in motion picture form, or cinematic language becomes an available form of communication to everyone to create, when it becomes something more than one to many or a few to many, as it’s been up until recently. Where are we going to push it socially, technically, artistically? Should we throw the old forms out all together? Will they become irrelevant?

These are the questions I think about at night, awake, staring at the ceiling.