Posted AT 10:00 PM EST on 08/05/08
Who wants to be a Filmaka
IVOR TOSSELL
From Friday's Globe and Mail
For years, we've been watching the same spectacle on YouTube and its clones. For all the different uses cheap online video has been put to, one of the most frequent is as a giant audition hall for would-be filmmakers.
It's like a perverse talent competition, one in which an endless line of contestants shuffle up to the microphone and do a little dance number in front of a vast and distracted audience.
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