Acting is moving online: Gyton Grantley

Actor Gyton Grantley believes more and more screen work for actors will be in projects made for online distribution.

“Personally, I would aspire to work in feature film and TV drama, but we can’t deny the fact that entertainment is moving more towards the internet and computer screens, because it’s so easily accessible and a lot cheaper,” Grantley told Encore.

“In terms of being an actor and executing my craft, when I’m on a set and there’s a camera in front of me, it doesn’t matter if it’s for the big screen or for online,” he added. “There are more options; we wanted more than four TV stations and now we have 100. The internet arrived and everybody loved it because we are not being force-fed things we don’t like – although there is so much content now that we might miss out on something good.”

Grantley is the Ambassador of the online filmmaking competition Movie Extra Webfest, which gives filmmakers the opportunity to win a $50,000 production budget to produce a seven-part web series for the Movie Extra channel. The winning series will premiere online and broadcast on air in 2011. He is also one of the judges – the rest have not been announced yet.