State of the Skeleton 5/30-6/3: Stop Skeletons From Bloggin’

Heya guys! Grace here. Since our schedule has been so sporadic this year, I thought that a weekly update blog would be a good way to show off what we’re working on. I am shamelessly ripping this idea off The Gaming Historian, who has been thrilling me with his weekly updates all year. Without further ado...

Monday 5/30

We’ve been finalizing the The Doom RPG (+ Friends!) video, which, fittingly, has turned into a bit of a monster. We got the first rough edit from Brandon today (his last SSFF video edit was for the 64DD), which ended up being around 30 minutes long. That’s about 150% bigger than I anticipated originally, whoops. Derek and I spent a majority of the day watching the cut together and making notes for Brandon. I might end up trimming it down by a few minutes, but things are still up in the air.

Tuesday 5/31

While we’re waiting on another draft of the Doom RPG video, Derek continued outlining the script about delisted Konami brawlers. He’s been talking about this one for a while, but is feeling extra inspired by the upcoming TMNT: Shredder's Revenge and TMNT: Cowabunga Collection. The project itself doesn’t have a working title yet... how about “Konamabunga”? I’ll pitch it to Derek asap. In the meantime, I wrote emails, edited a sponsored spot for an upcoming video, and did a photoshoot for the Doom RPG thumbnail.

Wednesday June 6/1

Today Derek worked on tightening up round 2 Doom RPG edits with Brandon. I was out of the office for most of the day running errands, though I spent a couple hours prepping the Doom RPG thumbnail. I found this totally radical advertisement that I’m probably going to riff on for the thumbnail. Especially since I found another high-quality image of that melted Doom cellphone!

Thursday 6/2

Big meeting day today! My goal is to get the Konamabunga video to an editor before we go on a trip to visit family next week, so after the meeting,  lot of my day was spent wrapping up loose ends on the Doom RPG video (like finalizing the thumbnail, prepping posts) before we start scripting on the next video in earnest. Still waiting on a final edit, but I’m confident it’ll be good to go next week.

Friday 6/3

Got the final edit back on Doom RPG! It’s nearly ready but we forgot to get him a few little pieces of footage and Derek misspoke saying “ipod” instead of “ipad”, and when talking about Orcs & Elves 2 forgot to say the “2”. Might have to re-record a few small lines. It’s always the little things! Derek is finishing up the edit with Brandon and I’m finishing this post, um …here that you’re reading right now. And then I’ll do some early scripting for the Konamabunga video (note: Derek has informed me that he never signed off on that title). And that’s the week! We’re hoping to have these every week, so let us know what you think of them.

- Grace <3