Shane Smith
Shane Smith
Shane Smith may refer to:...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionJournalist
CountryCanada
biggest both costs develop issue media money pay series tv work works
I think the biggest issue for legacy media - both TV and film - is that it just costs too much money to develop a TV series or movie. And most of them don't work. Then the one that works has to pay for the rest.
blogs journalist keeping twitter
I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.
If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world.
amount becomes develop films gets money paid smaller
If you look at film, distribution is pre-bought. If you've paid for the distribution, you say, 'I have to make sure it's a film that gets enough butts in the seats.' I think that's the problem: It becomes prohibitively expensive, and you can't develop films for a smaller amount of money.
trying
Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'
cut shocking sort
One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'