I know, it’s hard to believe! I barely do myself, and I’m part of the group that was working on it all. We finally have a video posted up on our you-tube account which is why this blog is suddenly going to be more connected to it. Previously the account was pretty much just mine for idly subscribing to a handful of channels I like to follow, and all of our video making ideas firmly stuck in the pipe dream category. However, now we have a functioning editing machine and working camera equipment and production is plowing forward.
I’ve said it before, the first video we have primarily features this fact, and I’ll say it again; everything is liable to be crap. We are learning here, and that’s not a process known to suddenly create masterpiece after masterpiece. On the plus side we happen to have a bunch of ideas, none of which particularly require great acting skills from us. Hopefully we’ll prove capable of holding a camera steady and pointing in the right direction.
Now for the format of the videos, it’s going to be a bit wonky. One of the major ideas I want to throw into action is showing our learning. This is to say for each video I want to focus on a new thing we’ve never really tried before in an effort to figure things out. The idea is that the video following that one would identify what we were tinkering around with, how we felt it went, and where we’re still baffled. Presumably the new video will also have a new focus, and this could be a sort of roll-over effect. The downside with this idea is it means we need at least a minute long segment on each video dedicated to something entirely irrelevant to what it’s actually about. That combined with an insane urge to just make a million videos means these after-action reports may end up being entirely separate clips linked to by the video they’re about.
I’m still aware of the fact we have virtually no readership, but if you’re here by some magical accident feel free to click on the links up in the navigation bar to the right to get to the you-tube channel. There’s not much kicking around up there at the moment, but given we have at least three ideas slated to be filmed right now, hopefully you’ll be able to find more stuff there in the future.
A side note is the potential for other Canadian people to be making content for the site. Trevor’s making a how-to/how-I-did/Hey-I-have-stuff blog/video about making maps for games. He’s been plugging away at a variety of new custom maps for a mod in the old source engine and was busy doing a write up of sorts for how it’s been going last time we got together. With any luck we’ll see that (in whatever incarnation it takes) come around soon. Skye, a friend of ours I’ve mentioned a couple times is still hoping to join us in the video end of things, and with any luck we’ll be able to coordinate our bizarre schedules soon to make that happen.
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