Jmac podcast update
I've written the scripts for my monologues and lead-ins for next Wednesday's shoot. With a total reading-time of around eight minutes, it feels rather wordy, but I bet it will work out. Some of it will be read over clips of the games we played in the studio, and the rest will feature me standing before the SCAT green screen, which I hope will ultimately be more interesting to look at than me sitting in a chair in front of a wavy curtain.
In both cases I'll be using the DIY teleprompter rig I described before. I made a test movie, just text crawling up at a measured pace, and it seems to work fine. If everything doesn't fail spectacularly, then the end product will be much more watchable than the monologues I've had to edit in previous episodes. That means less editing time, too, even given the increased green-screen futzing I'll have to do; trying to fix performance foulups in post-production is both more time-consuming and less fun than adding in more content.
Yes, "batman4050", we will mention the Star Control petition, as well as some other updates about things that have appeared on previous shows.
After I submit this episode to SCAT and put it online, I'm finally going to start promoting the damn show. I've picked up a few remote fans, which is very nice, but I get the impression that they somehow stumbled across the show against all odds. I'd like to push its presence a little more; even at our relaxed bimonthly pace through the first half of 2007, it's still hard work to put a show together. A little bit of encouragement in the form of fresh fan mail and feedback would go a long way towards fueling me and the rest of the team. I don't doubt that it'll be forthcoming so long as I can actually stitch a good show together and then get the word out.
I would also like to make another Jmac's Arcade. I haven't made any since October and haven't promoted them at all, and meanwhile their instances on YouTube and Google Video continue to rack up comments from the haters. This doesn't bother me, but the fact that almost nobody else has commented (except for people I already know) makes me sad, since this suggests that the people who'd actually like it aren't finding it.
I have some ideas for fixing that, but I don't feel that I deserve to act on any while it's been three months since my last contribution to that feed. So, yeah, more to do.
In both cases I'll be using the DIY teleprompter rig I described before. I made a test movie, just text crawling up at a measured pace, and it seems to work fine. If everything doesn't fail spectacularly, then the end product will be much more watchable than the monologues I've had to edit in previous episodes. That means less editing time, too, even given the increased green-screen futzing I'll have to do; trying to fix performance foulups in post-production is both more time-consuming and less fun than adding in more content.
Yes, "batman4050", we will mention the Star Control petition, as well as some other updates about things that have appeared on previous shows.
After I submit this episode to SCAT and put it online, I'm finally going to start promoting the damn show. I've picked up a few remote fans, which is very nice, but I get the impression that they somehow stumbled across the show against all odds. I'd like to push its presence a little more; even at our relaxed bimonthly pace through the first half of 2007, it's still hard work to put a show together. A little bit of encouragement in the form of fresh fan mail and feedback would go a long way towards fueling me and the rest of the team. I don't doubt that it'll be forthcoming so long as I can actually stitch a good show together and then get the word out.
I would also like to make another Jmac's Arcade. I haven't made any since October and haven't promoted them at all, and meanwhile their instances on YouTube and Google Video continue to rack up comments from the haters. This doesn't bother me, but the fact that almost nobody else has commented (except for people I already know) makes me sad, since this suggests that the people who'd actually like it aren't finding it.
I have some ideas for fixing that, but I don't feel that I deserve to act on any while it's been three months since my last contribution to that feed. So, yeah, more to do.