Film making

Unlimited movie downloads are available to us nowadays through online movie stores. Being able to download movies at the click of a mouse has opened up our 17 inch monitor into a movie theater, one that never closes at night, and screens any movie we desire to watch at our beck and call. Such is how far our technology has advanced. We will see why unlimited movie downloads online stores have revolutionized the whole movie industry and what you are missing out if you are still stuck with your VCDs and DVDs.

Of course, the statement that you can download full length movies for free prompts an obvious question. Why do so many people still pay good money for DVDs, if they can get movies for free online? After all, DVD shops still do brisk business.

This is because you have to search to find these sites, and not everyone knows about the alternative. There are two options, and you can choose according to your requirement. The first is P2P file sharing networks, where you can download and share whole movies. The second option is completely legal, though rather more difficult to find. There are websites that let you download full length movies for free and legally. The catch is that the choice is very limited. If the movie you are looking for is not a classic, you will not find it in these sites.

People prefer the P2P file sharing networks because this is the only option for watching new movies and the latest blockbusters completely free of charge. The trouble is that the quality will very often be quite poor, and there is the added chance of getting incomplete movies and infected files. Also, the legal status of these networks is disputed. You could choose the second option, but not if you want any new movies.

Cheaper Alternative Movie VCD and DVD prices have dwindled over time owing to lower costs of production. If you have studied economics, you would understand about fixed capital costs and why mass manufacturing would eventually bring costs down. Nevertheless, to cough out $10 or more for a VCD/DVD is still too expensive to me. Well, after all, you probably would only watch it once and then chuck it aside to collect dust. Download sites however run on a lifetime membership model where you can gain access to virtually unlimited movie downloads. And the best part is you don't pay for per movie download, but one low payment for lifetime access. We are not even talking about thousands or hundreds of dollars, but the cost of one or two good DVDs.

The catch is that though the actual movies might be free, you will need to download some software that you can only get from these sites to be able to download these movies. And, of course, you will have to pay for this. The other possibility is that you might have to pay a certain sum as monthly subscription fee, after which you can download movies. And sometimes you are asked to pay additionally, if you want to transfer your movies to a disk.

As progressive professionals in our continual search for additional resources, approaches, techniques and methods for expanding our repertoire of English language teaching tools, movies can offer us an easily accessible, dynamic resource to enrich and expand our English language teaching. These reasons contain only a few of the many benefits we and our learners can experience. In the companion to this article entitled, "5 Ways to Use Popular Movies for English Language Teaching", we'll look at ways movies, clips and videos in English can be exploited in the EFL class room.