New studio tour (Patreon)

Look at the new kit you just paid for!

I am now editing the next series of videos. These are a new departure into a new form of role play gaming. Will anyone watch these videos? Only time will tell. There are about five and half hours of footage on each of the five cameras that covered the event as it occurred (so, in a way twenty-seven hours of footage) which will not have much cut out of it. I've been editing for about seven days and am a third of the way through. I need to work out a better way to edit these videos, but I don't see a practical one yet. The videos will probably make a loss as it is, and paying editors for weeks of work is out of the question.

Whereas normally I make videos alone, this one on the day of the shoot involved six other people. It was meant to be eight, but one crew and one cast member dropped out the day before, which meant that I had to perform three roles at once: lighting man, director, and actor. As it turned out, I think this may have been a blessing in disguise, and I think I might do the next one pretty much the same way.

It took a long time to get the cast and crew together. You have seen some of these new lights in action already, throwing coloured spots onto backgrounds, or simulating a cosy fire. I also bought a very fancy light that could zoom and change colour, but it broke the first time I used it, and went back to the retailer.

I also have to make the decision of how to publish this new project: in one enormous video? In many shorter videos? In three fairly long videos? In more than one of these formats? Should there be a cut which takes out all the out-of-character talk, and shows only the in-character story?

The camera you can see sitting on the table is the one I've been using for the past few years, and the video is shot on my new camera, which of course I therefore don't show you, although you do see the replacement camera I bought for the one that got stolen in Evesham. The new camera is also a good stills camera and is full-frame, for that cinematic look, and I have bought macro converters and cable releases for animation.

Next month, I plan to do another on-line video call with patrons. In the past, I've normally done these at two different times on a weekend day. Unless given a good reason not to do the same again, I shall do the same again.

Thanks again to you all!

Lloyd

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