Directorial Tweaks (Patreon)

From the moment of this post for about 10 minutes the link to the early access video will be down because I'm replacing it with an updated version. But please check back in a bit and it will work again.

Everything was basically fine, but a couple of technical moments kept bugging me. Here's what I adjusted:

• Raised the level of some of the background music. When I work on the sound for too long I become paranoid about dialogue clarity and end up pushing background audio too far down in some places.
• 03:38 - Removed a strange highlight curl on the back of Holly's head. It was distracting from MY closeup.
• 05:35 - Added a grainy film look to the 3-way split screen animation. There's already a projector sound happening, so it felt appropriate. Plus it hides the noticeable graininess of that particular render.
• 07:07 - Removed the dipping of my dialogue that made it feel like we're about to go into Holly's thoughts. It was an odd flourish I added at the very end of working on the mix and it just didn't make any sense.
• 09:49 - Added a background music cue to Holly's monologue. This was another case of overthinking it. I had the cue there originally but removed it, worried there's too much music. But in dead silence the exchange feels way too serious and dramatic. This is a goofy, quasi-educational sci-fi YouTube series after all.

That's it! I promise not to mess with it anymore. Time to start figuring out the next episode.