The Gameshelf #4 - for real this time
The fourth Gameshelf has been available for a while via RSS, but I didn't link to it directly because it wasn't quite done yet. Last night I sunk around three hours into both cleaning it up (it had a bunch of broken transitions) and carving 18 minutes off of it. This puts it below the 30-minute mark, which means I can hand it to SCAT and they can air it at some random time. Yes, this is important, in some abstract psychic way; I used their resources to make the show, and I owe them a product, even if my series has been long since canceled and they couldn't care less about it at this point.
Download here. Show notes here.
A lot of what I cut was pure fat, but there was a good amount of severed muscle squirming on the floor before I was done as well. It almost goes without saying; I don't have video editing experience beyond The Gameshelf but I have done enough text editing to know how every cut into one's own art is a mix of pain and relief.
I hated, for example, cutting out my explaining the show's theme (which I replaced with a new title card at the start of the show), and then slicing out my talking about Carcassonne's meeple-placement restriction rules. Both of these would have been nice to keep, and I would have considered it if I wanted to go shoot additional footage to illustrate my speech. But I didn't, and that left us with several minutes of jmac sitting in his chair babbling and flapping his arms, and that really isn't all that interesting to watch, even for me.
My biggest take-away was the value of limiting illustrations to a single clip. There were many bits in the first, 45-minute cut that had Matt or myself talk about some game feature, and then we'd watch as this happened 2 or 3 times in game play. And these were the first things I ended up slicing out. Multiple clips are good if you specifically want to show how something in the game changes over time, but otherwise it's unnecessary. It happens once in the final cut, during the Carcassonne segment, to show grr_plus1 sneaking a guy into another player's city, and then [clock-wipe] here he is some turns later, reaping the benefits on the scoreboard. The other redundant clips I originally kept because someone cracked a joke or was otherwise entertaining, and it was hard to let go, but onto the floor it all went.
Anyway, I am satisfied with the show now and am done with this episode, unless I have made some truly epic mistakes; please let me know if you find any.
Download here. Show notes here.
A lot of what I cut was pure fat, but there was a good amount of severed muscle squirming on the floor before I was done as well. It almost goes without saying; I don't have video editing experience beyond The Gameshelf but I have done enough text editing to know how every cut into one's own art is a mix of pain and relief.
I hated, for example, cutting out my explaining the show's theme (which I replaced with a new title card at the start of the show), and then slicing out my talking about Carcassonne's meeple-placement restriction rules. Both of these would have been nice to keep, and I would have considered it if I wanted to go shoot additional footage to illustrate my speech. But I didn't, and that left us with several minutes of jmac sitting in his chair babbling and flapping his arms, and that really isn't all that interesting to watch, even for me.
My biggest take-away was the value of limiting illustrations to a single clip. There were many bits in the first, 45-minute cut that had Matt or myself talk about some game feature, and then we'd watch as this happened 2 or 3 times in game play. And these were the first things I ended up slicing out. Multiple clips are good if you specifically want to show how something in the game changes over time, but otherwise it's unnecessary. It happens once in the final cut, during the Carcassonne segment, to show grr_plus1 sneaking a guy into another player's city, and then [clock-wipe] here he is some turns later, reaping the benefits on the scoreboard. The other redundant clips I originally kept because someone cracked a joke or was otherwise entertaining, and it was hard to let go, but onto the floor it all went.
Anyway, I am satisfied with the show now and am done with this episode, unless I have made some truly epic mistakes; please let me know if you find any.