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Video Progress 12/6/22

Added 2022-12-07 01:16:46 +0000 UTC

Hey everyone,

I'm very happy to report that the interviews for the upcoming video went extremely well. These individuals illuminated sides of the story that were impossible to access by research alone, and the video will be a much more personal and thorough investigation into the events than they otherwise would be.

I'd like to potentially conduct some more interviews for this story in order to reveal even more depth, but since these events happened 30+ years ago, tracking these people down (not to mention asking them to appear on camera to relive potentially re-traumatizing events) is much easier said than done. I'm lucky that I was able to find two people who were happy to do this, but I suspect I'll be sending out a few more emails before it's all said and done.

The script is coming along well. As always, this story started out fairly simple, but then I uncovered complexity that I didn't realize was there as I moved forward--but not to worry, this is what good stories are made of. I've also been learning After Effects in order to give some dynamism to the visuals. It's not an easy program to learn, but since I've become proficient at Premiere over the years, much of it is already intuitive. I won't be adding explosions or anything like that, but you can expect some simple (hopefully not janky) animations to illustrate things like pages turning in a magazine, etc.

That's all for now. I hope you all are doing well and are having a wonderful holiday season. Thanks you all for everything, and I'll see you in Discord.

-AG