How Is Entertainment Industry Changing?

Today's world is completely different from the world that existed in the period of the Ramayan and Mahabharata. But in both, the era people loved the entertainment. They tried to get entertainment by doing different things. Is entertainment the same now and back then?

People always worked hard, they needed some kind of relaxation from their daily chores, so they looked for different entertainment. Entertainment plays a vital role in human life. In Ancient India, people listened to classical music and liked classical dance. There were also some sports like fishing, boating, archery, martial arts, painting, horse riding, hunting, narrating stories, street play, dramas, making sculptures were their favorite entertainment among them.

Is entertainment changed from ancient times to the modern era? Yes, In the modern era men are more creative and have more technological knowledge, through which they have been influenced to invent many ways of entertainment. When you compare the entertainment in ancient times and now there is a rapid change in the method of entertaining people. though some of the ancient methods of entertainment exist today but in a modified manner.

What are Today's Entertainment Sources?

As there are a lot of changes in culture and historical events there have been changes in entertainment as well, online gaming, concerts, music nights, dance parties, outing, trekking, reading books, movies, road trips, pet shows, comedy clubs, magical shows, TV shows, shopping. Video games, open mic nights, circus, carnival, food festivals are the real entertainments in today's world. In the modern era entertainment is something completely different from the past.

WEB SERIES

Since technology is changing continuously and expanding, it's been more than a decade since the technology arrived in the entertainment industry and changed it all along from toe to head.

By 2005, a small group of individuals, however, began to discover the power of putting their videos online. They weren’t doing it for business reasons—they were doing it to spread their voice and establish credibility. Young artists, comedians, and film enthusiasts began posting videos online—in hopes of getting seen on one of the new "social networks" – like Friendster or MySpace.

It all started with Google-owned YouTube, in the year 2005, it is a newly launched video sharing website. During the summer, Saturday Night Live hired the team (including Andy Samberg) to join their show, hoping their unique videos would be a "shot in the arm" during a down period of the show’s history. In December 2005, Samberg and Chris Parnell performed in an SNL Digital Short called "Lazy Sunday," which was uploaded to YouTube – a new site that made it easy to post and share online videos. For most people, this was their first introduction to YouTube, as the video was shared and forwarded millions of times.

One of the first fully-branded Web sites devoted to online video launched in 2007 thanks to Budweiser. The site was called Bud TV and it failed to draw an audience. Although considered a disaster due to its immense costs, the industry learned a lot from its failure. Most importantly, they learned that videos need to be easily accessible. Because it was connected to Budweiser, users had to prove they were 21 years or older in order to log in and watch their content. This was a step that alienated many viewers. After all, an Internet user is always "one click away."

Nowadays, it is high time for the OTT(Over-The-Top) platforms such as Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, HBO Max, etc. These are some big names of the OTT industry. However, the funny thing is you do not need to be a big player to boos in the entertainment industry, for instance, MX Player is an Indian small video player and hosting, the video hosting is of no cost with the power of high-quality content it becomes very famous among the Indian users, you should definitely check out some good MX player web series, that are worth watching.

SHOWS

Undoubtedly, television plays an important role in our life, because we spend several hours in front of a TV screen every day.

What does an average person know about the history of TV shows? Probably nothing. Very few people know that the first TV shows appeared in the 1930s and resembled current soap operas. The main target audience for TV shows was housewives, mainly advertising cleaning products in between the shows.

The most famous producer of soap operas has always been Brazil. Of course, the USA managed to compete for the leadership in this genre in the 1980s when the world saw Santa Barbara. This TV serial ran until 1993 with more than 2,100 episodes and it was broadcasted in more than 50 countries. Nowadays, soap operas still attract high audience numbers, though the popularity of this genre is gradually reducing.

Modern TV shows attract the audience’s attention with the help of a captive plot, special effects, a famous cast, and huge marketing budgets. No wonder, nearly everyone has at least several favorite TV shows to help them pass the time!

MOVIES

At first, the films were very short, sometimes only a few minutes or less. They were shown at fairgrounds, music halls, or anywhere a screen could be set up and a room darkened. Subjects included local scenes and activities, views of foreign lands, short comedies, and newsworthy events.

By the early 1930s, nearly all feature-length movies were presented with synchronized sound and, by the mid-1930s, some were in full color too. The advent of sound secured the dominant role of the American industry and gave rise to the so-called ‘Golden Age of Hollywood’.

During the 1930s and 1940s, cinema was the principal form of popular entertainment, with people often attending cinemas twice a week. Ornate ’super’ cinemas or ‘picture palaces’, offering extra facilities such as cafés and ballrooms, came to towns and cities; many of them could hold over 3,000 people in a single auditorium.

In the past 20 years, film production has been profoundly altered by the impact of rapidly improving digital technology. Most mainstream productions are now shot on digital formats with subsequent processes, such as editing and special effects, undertaken on computers.

In the past few years, there has been a revival of interest in 3D features, sparked by the availability of digital technology. Whether this will be more than a short-term phenomenon (as previous attempts at 3D in the 1950s and 1980s had been) remains to be seen, though the trend towards 3D production has seen greater investment and industry commitment than before.

Some other entertainment sources are Sports, Travelling, and Exercise. But all these are liked by very few ones because it requires so much physical work, it might be one of the main reasons.