Video Progress 5/7/22

Hey everyone, 

I typically write one of these updates after I've had a particularly good work day and I'm feeling optimistic about the upcoming video. Today is no exception--things are going well, and I feel like this next release will be my best yet. Looking back, I've felt that way about most of my recent releases. Maybe it's been true every time and I'm getting better with each video, or maybe it's just naïve optimism; either way, the confidence assists the work so I'll not question it. 

The process for this video has been quite a bit different, as many of the clips I've wanted to feature have been in another language, and while this topic is not completely unheard of in the west, interviews with the story's main characters which will be the vast majority of my cutaway clips have needed to be translated into English. But it's really exciting to get back a translated interview, both for the insight into the characters that didn't otherwise have, but also knowing that my video will be the first to feature these clips in the English language. 

This story is a bit controversial--it's political (but not in the sense that we might immediately think of whenever they read that word), and some of the details of the story have to be taken on faith by the first-hand accounts of the people who experienced them. It's very hard to corroborate some of the info in this story. So first and foremost, I have to make sure I'm not saying anything untrue. But this isn't the first (or last) time I've dealt with this situation, and I like to think that my bullshit detector is pretty sharp at this point. 

I'm going to name JUNE as the release month. Hopefully no later than the second week, but sometime that month for sure. I know enough about my process at this point that this is a realistic goal. I don't always set realistic goals, as many of you who've been around a while can attest, but this one is.  

I'll definitely write at least one more update before release, probably in early June whenever I have a better idea when the specific release date will be. But until then, thank you all for everything, and I'll see you in Discord. :)

-AG