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Persona 4 Script

Hi everyone,

Sorry about the delay. I still need to get the okay from someone, and I'm still probably going to move stuff around, but this is what I have right now. I'm generally happy with where it is right now, I'm probably going to add more to sorta clarify some sections - the problem with big scripts is trying to stay on topic, so you think you always have something relevant but then on a second pass it's not relevant, etc. I trimmed a lot of stuff out and down, and I'm probably goi...

Update on Script

Hi everyone,

Sorry about the delay on the video and script. Things are taking a while because the next video has possibly three guests, and my usual process waiting to make sure guests are okay with the script before proceeding. So far I haven't heard back from anyone yet, so I'm just waiting on them. Once things are finished, I'll post the script and then get started on the video.

Also sorry on the movie review delays. I am actually getting back to those now, I'll probably keep t...

Stevie Suan Interview Raw

Hi everyone, the video after the Persona video is a two-parter "What is Anime?" sorta video, but it's mainly a video that focuses on Stevie Suan's work Anime's Identity.

Anyone who knows me on Twitter knows that the actual video was 4 hours, but the last half hour is just general conversation not relevant to the video I'm working on, so I trimmed it out.

Usually these things are completely unedited (aside from any basic audio levelling), but this one also has a sudden cut. That's ...

AnimeUproar Interview Raw Footage

Hi everyone, this is the next raw footage of the ongoing video about YouTube content creation. As always, the audio and video is not treated in any way, so if it's a little crusty or flat that's why, it's pre-production. This is mainly here for transparency's sake, and for patrons to stay abreast on ongoing projects.

Update

Hi everyone, sorry it is taking so long to get the draft out. It is very long (currently 30 pages) and I need to get the approval on the guests I have for it, so it'll take a while longer.

I will update the budget, sorry I haven't gotten to that in a while. I'll update for all the months.

My hope is to get the script out to everyone by next week, cause then I can start recording and editing. I am not looking forward to clean out what seems to be multiple hours of audio.

Unedited discussion with Lord Knight for P4 Video

Hi everyone, as you know, the video takes a turn towards P4Arena as part of its examination of mechanics and expression. As such, I had a lengthy interview with Steve Barthelemy (Lord Knight), who is a massive anime fighting game player, both at the time of Persona 4 Arena and still is today. This is the unedited stream of it, for the sake of general transparency.

Unedited Discussion with Lamarre for P4 Video

Hi everyone,

As you know, I'm working on the video for Persona 4, and among that is a discussion about television and how it's represented. For that reason, there's going to be a section where I have Thomas Lamarre, author of The Anime Ecology, given that his approach to television in P4 is something I draw a lot of influence from.

This discussion kinda comes in with the assumption that you've already read Ecology, so it might not be as clarifying as you think, but it's more of a ...

Persona 4 Script Started

Will have a draft in a week-ish, I'm waiting on a few other components to get it all together, but sometime next week I'll post the draft.

Desk Review Patreon Questions

Hi everyone, video is almost done, so this is the part where if you have any questions you'd like me to answer in the Patreon video section, let me know. I'll be recording tonight or tomorrow, so I know this is a bit last minute (shoulda planned this earlier), so if your question gets missed my apologies.

AnthroDesk Review Progress

Hi everyone, here's the current progress, I still have to add a bunch of stuff on the tail end, I want to avoid spamming it with stock footage so I have to think of footage to shoot and editing that can be done on my own in my limited space, which is why it's taking me a hot second to figure that out. Should be done by Monday.

Desk Review Progress

Hi everyone,

Since this is due for Thursday, instead of a weekly thing, I'll be uploading daily updates. As you can see, not much so far, and it's fairly simple.

Billing resumes on April 30th (not my intention)

Hi everyone,

I know I said billing doesn't resume until June, but Patreon has a wonky implementation of their billing, where if I resume billing, apparently Patreon will just charge the missed month. So what I'll do is when it resumes, I'll re-disable it. Since I think it charges again, I'll disable it for the month of May. That way, overall it all evens out. I think this is how I can keep my promise (since I promised it wouldn't be back until June). Sorry about the inconvenience.

Incredibly Chaotic Anthrodesk Script

Hi everyone, here's the script. Sorry about that, I have a date for next week to be finished. It'll be very jank, but I just want it done so I can get on that Persona 4 video. Sorry that it's so whack.

I'll make revisions after a day or two because it's always one of those things where I find slightly better ways to say stuff after I take a day away from it.

I know it's not great, but I just want it done.

Study of Swords Unedited Interview Footage

Hi everybody, as you all know I'm in the process of getting interview footage for my video on Youtube content creation, and this is the footage with Study of Swords, or Richard. As always, it's completely unedited, this is just what I got coming out of the camera. As such, don't worry too much about the color, framing, audio, etc. It'll all be cleaned up in post.

Oki Unedited Interview Footage

Hi everyone, as you know, I'm working on a video about being a YouTuber, and that involves meeting some YouTubers to get some general insights. This is an unedited post with Oki, the main reason I posted it is for the sake of transparency, there's nothing in here that's been cleaned or cut, nothing color corrected or anything yet.

Billing Paused (and Select)

Hi everyone,

As you all know, this Patreon runs specifically for the sake of going to the channel and whatever is needed for the channel to function. As the budget accrues, there hits a point where realistically I don't need more patreon payouts, so instead of hoarding Patreon amounts like a dragon, I decided to pause the patreon payout. I don't know if it's already charged for this month, and if so, my apologies for that.

I think it is unethical and unfair for me to advertise the...

Will have the desk review script up by the end of the week

It's a desk review, but it's also currently like, 5 pages single-spaced, so I don't know what to say. This is the script, mind you, not the finished video. Might take an extra 2-3 weeks to finish that up.

After that the video will be about Persona 4, which will in theory give me enough time to read Prof. Noriko Manabe's work on 3.11 music in time for a future video on that. Dr. Suan's video is currently still planned, I need to get in touch with him.

Not gonna lie, I said I'd stop...

Budget Update (02/22/2023)

Hi everyone,

Sorry about the silence, the budget has been updated, you can find it on the Discord channel or on the page here:

https://pauseandselect.com/budget

The password is patreon

Sorry about the delays

Hi everyone,

Sorry about the delays, I'm not going to give any excuses, I got really sidetracked playing Diablo 2 Resurrected because my stupid monkey brain fell into the operant conditioning machine and before I knew it, a bunch of time passed.

I'll be getting back to video making in the coming days. Really sorry about that.

A company recently reached out to me to do a desk review

I offered to do a brief discussion of Bataille's General Economy and the failed human sacrifice of the Acephales group. I promised to jam in a desk review in there somewhere.

They agreed...(????)

I guess there will be a brief intermission while I make this desk review video. If anyone has any concerns, let me know.

Resuming Content Creation

Sorry about the delay. I'm a teacher, and I just finished grading 350 papers this past month. I will be getting back to content creation.

Getting Back to Reviews (+Update)

Hi everyone, very sorry about the long silence.

To be upfront, I've been having a lot of mental difficulty doing the reviews, primarily as a result of a deep mental block and some generally unaddressed mental difficulties. This is NOT an excuse, I just want to update everyone by saying that this weekend, I will start reviewing movies again. Everyone who is a patron will have access to them, everyone who is on the five dollar tier will be able to request movies specifically. If you're a ...

Next video: How I approach media analysis

Hi everyone,

Sorry it's taking so long, my next video is a very different project regarding media analysis, specifically how I approach media analysis. I've been in a pretty depressive episode for the past while, but I think I'm in the right headspace to talk about my approach. It'll be a very different video than a lot of my other ones. I hope everyone is okay with that.

After that, I'll be looking at either Stevie Suan's work or Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, whichever I get finished ...

I've switched to subscription billing because Patreon told me this is better for my patrons

Let me know if you run into any issues.

Paripi Koumei Draft

Hi everyone, here's the (almost final) draft on the Paripi Koumei video. I'm trying to re-record a section where I mistakenly say "1943" instead of "1942," but the audio keeps sounding different from the rest of the speech. I'll try and give it another go, but so far it might just be a situation where I would leave a note or something.

I don't know if anyone missed it last time, but if you have any questions for me to answer on the Patreon video, please respond to this post here and I'l...

Paripi Koumei video basic cut, also patron question thread

Hi everyone, here's the basic cut so far. There's a few things I need to change, and I still need to put in SFX and change the timing and clean up some of the editing, but this is the basics.

Sorry this is taking so long, I was hoping to get this done sooner but recently I'm going insane from a bout of COVID that decided to give me no symptoms other than the most persistent, painful throat pain I've ever experienced in my life. It's kinda nuts how painful my throat is in right now, I ca...

Paripi Koumei Editing Progress

Hi everyone,

Like normal, here's the progress on the editing for the PK video. Slowly hewing through it bit by bit. I still haven't re-recorded the year discrepancy, so hopefully I don't forget it.

Was gonna get back to reviews, but laptop is blue-screening.

I am currently on hold listening to tech support music. Sorry about the delay.

August 07, 2022 Paripi Koumei Progress

Hi everyone,

As usual, here's the weekly editing progress on the Paripi Koumei video. I was told last time that I had an error in the years in one section (the Chan Mou part). I haven't gotten around to re-recording that audio yet, but thank you very much for mentioning it!

As always, the audio has not been levelled. I will try and get as much as I can get done in this week, coming September it'll be very busy since school starts again and I will probably be instructing.

Paripi Koumei Progress

Hi everyone,

Sorry, it took me a while to get a progress video up on the Paripi Koumei video. I'm almost halfway through on the base scratch edit, there are a lot of little things I want to tighten up and clean up, but this is so far. All the audio, effects, etc., haven't been properly cleaned yet. Sound effects are well haven't been added yet; that's gonna be the last thing I'll add. Also the insane spikes in audio are because I haven't fixed them yet.

This is the first time I wo...