Maybe one day I'll work out exactly how to release a video at the right time. Anyway, spoilers for this follow!
Next week is the busiest week of my year. It's packed to the rafters with tonnes of secret projects and lots of travel. That meant that this week needed to be a simple, quick video so I could get back ahead.
This video took 4 days to make. Whoops.
Last week someone linked me to this game (Mindshow), I tested it and immediately knew I had to make something with it. Basically, you pick an area, pick a "puppet", take control of them and hit record. Your movements and audio are recorded and you can then do it again with another puppet to interact or use a camera and shoot the angle you want. Footage is recorded directly to your hard drive. It's a very nicely made game.
The downside is that the Vive's in-built mic is dreadful quality and I needed to keep it on to make the mouths move. That meant I need to record the audio like I would with any VR video and add that and all sound effects back in manually, and then tweak the vocals to help separate all the voices. It took forever. Almost two forevers.
As usual, no part of this video was written. I opened a location, looked at the puppets, worked out who is doing what here and then ad libbed as many skits, quips and bits as I could with them. Each character needed and intro with quick characterization and an outro that capped off their story. Some got arcs, some were just one line filler. I think it worked.
Not everything I recorded worked though. The episode was 21 mins long but I recorded just under five hours of footage all told. There were a lot of character/place combinations that didn't really work as well as bits that didn't work. I could totally Anchorman 2 this and make another video from the footage (but we all know I won't :p).
My favourite bit to do was the Ted Talk parody. Just pause like William Shatner and don't really say anything that means anything. I think she got like 90 mins of footage.
OK, that's all. There may not be a podcast this week but, like I said, it's going to be a busy one for me. These advent calendars won't open themselves...
- Dan
PS. Next Week... The Nerd³ Awards!
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