2022 (Pre)March Update: "Eureka" Moment, 2 Week Extension

Hello everyone! I've made some sick as fuck progress in the past few days and I am going to extend my deadline by two weeks to flesh it out. March 14th is when I'll be done! 

Since the health issues causes so many delays I was going to shoot for a C+ grade with the quality of the video, in order to not have people keep waiting forever. But! I've finally nailed down an intro that will take the project up from being a C+ to an S+ in my own personal grading book. 

To give you all more insight.

Originally, due to time constraints, I was planning on the intro to the video to be action focused, putting together a montage of action synced with the Monster Hunter theme song in order to get people interested in the video. The idea being: Start with action before the talking so people get their candy sooner

But there were 4 issues with this intro and I was unhappy with it.

• This intro in general, was a compromise due to time constraints. It would serve its purpose and be fine and I could make it work. But its sloppy, one dimensional and loud. 
• What I want to talk about isn't just the Action in Monster Hunter, one of the things I think is so great about the game is that it's not always about Action, so that kinda tarnishes the message of the video and shoots myself in the foot immediately. 
• The Monster Hunter main theme (the Monster Hunter World Version) is really short and hard to work around. Syncing the action to the music would be possible, but way too much work for a mediocre and frankly, pretty boring piece of the video. 
• The intro, the most important part of the video. Being only action and so one dimensional, would lose all the personality I wanted to show with this video and the channel as a whole

I've rewritten the intro's script to be much more personal while not being boring. 

To do that, I've done the following.  

• The new intro now has more of a "Story-Telling Feel" which is what I wanna be aiming for on this channel. This allows me to "Control" the flow of the video directly from the start, allowing me to set up for future events way easier. I don't want this to be me reading you an essay, I want this to be me including you in the story of how I fell into this game.
• I am including Live IRL Footage to add much more dynamic content. The video won't be only Gameplay footage anymore. Here's a test shot I uploaded a few days ago: https://twitter.com/summer_Dogg/status/1496643581078949891
• I am expanding the Game Footage to include previous Monster Hunter Games. I have recorded gameplay from Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and more to include in the footage.

In addition to all of those. I've also been gathering better and better footage recently. I've made refinements to other areas of the script, and I've been working on other visual and audio elements to help bring more "life" into the video. 

I also plan to include Volunteers to help record some other footage I need to get.

Specifically: The Gathering Hub in Monster Hunter World can support up to 12 other players. This is something that impossible for me to setup myself. I plan on hosting a "Work" stream and plan to invite viewers to help assist in gathering more varied footage.

Pardon my French but this shit is gunna be sick, I'm stoked. I can't wait to see where this is gunna go cause I'm absolutely killing it right now >:))

I am going to try and avoid throwing out apologies for taking so long. It's been rough, but I think I've been too rough on myself. I'm glad I took this extra time to work these knots in the process out, instead of accepting the Loss and going for the C+ I'm going for the S+ and Its gunna be worth it. 

This stuff is hard!!! and I'm doing all of it on my own! (for now). But this is stuff I love and the stuff I'm good at. I'm gunna get it done and it's gunna be sick >:9

Love you all and miss you all. I plan to be back soon.

 Stay safe and take care of yourselves. 

summerDogg,