Whole thing makes me crabby. Sorry. First part is the fuckin' Youtubers are going to ruin video. You like how this choad didn't even put on a lav mic? How the whole room was captured on an on-camera stereo R0de? Yeah, that's my industry dying. After all, even Izotope will tell you that if you have one of these:

Why the fuck would you need someone with one of these?

And let's be honest: I'm getting what work I'm getting because nobody could afford these guys, and now they're gone:

And it's just such bullshit. Yes, people will watch your shot-on-iPhone crap. That's because it's all they have. That's because we've splintered shit so much that we're now regarding "things I watch in the palm of my hand while waiting for the bus" as viable models for entertainment.

I got a friend. She's an ADR editor. She doesn't know much about cinematography. But she had the opportunity to shoot her short film, on 35, in northern Italy, on the Cooke anamorphics Vitorio Storaro used to shoot Apocalypse Now. This isn't Vitorio Storaro. This is a semi-talented DP, trying not to use too much film (at $1/second), shooting in the middle of the goddamn day. Who wore it better, my friend the ADR editor or Freddie Wong and his bazillion views?

We're talkin' 30-year-old glass that doesn't work much, somewhere out in bumblefuck nowhere Italy. But we don't make that shit anymore. Why? Because Freddie Wong.

My friends and I used to send each other preposterously glowing reviews of Lego follow focuses.

Problem is, all of /r/filmmakers thinks Lego follow focuses are AWESOME. Why? Because they've never been in a position where the difference between a $4k follow focus and a $12k follow focus is the difference between you getting the shot or not.

And thanks to Freddie Wong, they never will.