The Digital Revolution’s ‘Citizen Journalists’ Are Ruining Our Film Experience

If they were bona fide movie fans, they would truly understand the pleasure of being teased with trailers instead of shaky YouTube footage captured on a lunch break from half-a-mile away

Let’s stop with the unofficial, camera-phone caught, plot-spoiling, on-set images shall we?

As a huge movie fan — and a film and TV writer who has recently developed a children’s TV show for British broadcaster ITV — I love being teased by movie studio trailers, TV spots and images from upcoming films. Discovering titbits about plot twists and epic never-seen-before explosive scenes is all part of the film world fun.

But I’m getting increasingly perturbed by over-zealous people with camera-phones and too much time on their hands. More and more people are uploading out-of-focus and completely out-of-context [with the film’s storyline and concept] images from film sets, usually taken more than a year before the finished movie is due to be released.

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