Next Video Underway

Hey everyone!

I'm about a week into production on the next video, and I'm really hoping this one can have a quicker turnaround than what we've been having recently. The Immortalists video is performing well and being positively received on YouTube, but the 4 month production time is not exactly sustainable for the long-term health of the channel, so I'm really going to try to push myself on this next one. Not to worry, though; I'm up for it.

This next story will be condensed to about an eight-year period, which is pretty narrow for what I'm used to, but I'm looking to write it in such a way that the viewer will be able to extrapolate many years before and after the main events covered to get as much context as possible.

It'll be a story that covers three main characters, one of whom is well-known, the other two not so much. The setting will be the most challenging aspect, and I've got lots of work to do in order to understand the time and place well enough to present it accurately on screen. At this point in the process, I'm spending most of my workday curating my own research materials and figuring out what all I need to know to tell the story properly.

With the Immortalist video, I tried to exercise a bit of story compression (there was a LOT of material that I could've included but chose not to) and despite it having the longest runtime in my entire catalogue, I feel like the video had one of the quickest paces, had a good sense of forward momentum, and didn't have (m)any lulls. I'm going to try to do this again in this next video--keep it focused, exciting, and forward-moving.

That's all for now. I'll be writing another update in the coming weeks once I've delved a bit deeper into the story. Thank you all for your continuing support and encouragement. I couldn't do this without you! :)

Talk soon,
AG