The Next New Thing

A type of New Media that currently does not exist is a type of New Media that allows users to collaborate on video projects together. There would be an online platform that all of the team members can utilize and they would all be able to work on the exact same file at the same time. There is already a similar platform for word documents utilizing Google Doc or Google Spreadsheets. For coders, they have GitHub which similarly allows them to all work on the same piece together. In terms of video editing, it may be that each member in the group has a particular skill in video editing that they are more proficient in. In that sense, being able to work together would allow them to save a lot of time. There is always the possibility that they could piece together each of their individual works at the end. However, perhaps one scene requires a few of them to work on together. They may need someone to add in a special effect, one person to fix the lighting, one person to work on cropping and transitions. In that way, working separately just would not do. I do not know how feasible this is, but given the large scale projects that video editors work on, I think this can be highly beneficial to the field of video editing and the communities that practice the craft.