Editing Music video (section)

====Official lo-fi Internet music clips====
Following the shift toward internet broadcasting and the rising popularity of user-generated video sites such as [[YouTube]] around 2006, various [[independent filmmakers]] began films recording live sessions to present on the Web. All of these swiftly recorded clips are made with minimal budgets and share similar aesthetics with the [[lo-fi music]] movement of the early nineties. Offering freedom from the increasingly burdensome financial requirements of high-production movie-like clips, it began as the only method for little-known [[indie music]] artists to present themselves to a wider audience, but increasingly this approach has been taken up by such major mainstream artists as [[R.E.M.]] and [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]].<ref>{{cite news|author= Mark Thompson|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/19/takeaway.shows/index.html |title=Lo-fi filmmaker takes stars to street level|publisher=[[CNN]]|date=February 19, 2008 |access-date=June 13, 2013}}</ref>