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Directors Commentary: France Still Has an Empire

Hello all!
I hope you are getting some warm weather where you are, or if you are one of the lucky few who has had warm weather this time, just know that we are all envious. 

By popular demand, this is a directors commentary on the video I made about France's overseas territories!

Behind The Scenes: Mapping US Bases

Hello friends!

I am excited to share this behind the scenes with you because the video ISNT POSTED YET!

I worked with David Vine to create a dataset of US military bases, and this BTS explains how I styled and animated! Let me know what you think!

SCRIPT: Liberia

Hello everyone!

This video was posted before the holidays, but I want to share this script, not only because this was a massive project, but also:

1) Because there is a whole entire chapter of this video that we never ended up filming. The ACS, the organization that shipped freed slaves to Liberia, was founded in DC, the building where it was founded is now a bar and grille, so I was going to do some field reporting, which didn't end up happening. Side note: if you are interested...

Map - How The US Stole Iraq

Hi all! Here is a version of the map used in my recent video about Iraq.

Thank you all for your support, I really can not express how grateful I am for the community on here!

Behind The Scenes: Graph and Data Animation

Hey everyone! I was working on a graph animation that I plastered on real footage. Many of you have asked how I did this type of animation in my video about Iceland on the beach. Let me know what you think!

Script: How The US Stole Iraq

Hey all! This was an interesting video to make. It's a subject I have been studying for years and years. What did you all think? This script is formatted slightly differently than usual, since I used less maps and more collage style animation. 

Directors Commentary: Liberia

Hey friends! This video is a breakdown of my recent video "Where the US Hides its Secrets" that was a recent deep dive of mine. I hope you all enjoy this video, and as always, let me know what you think!

Jenkins Map Update

Hello Friends!

I hope you have had a wonderful past few weeks. I have received some messages that the Jenkins map Dropbox link had expired. I went and updated the link and it will not expire from now on! Thanks to those that let me know!

Script: France Still Has An Empire

Hello Friends! 

This is the script for the recent video about France. I left in some notes to myself, as well as other things that didn't quite make it into the video. I hope by doing this you can see my train of thought of what to include and leave out of the video. Is that helpful? Let me know in the comments, would you all prefer that I leave in my notes to self, or clean up the script more before I pass it on to you?

Map Background: France Still Has An Empire

Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful December, and you are staying healthy. If you saw my recent video about France and its overseas territories, this map will make sense to you!  What did you all think about the vid?

Behind The Scenes: My Mapping Process

Hi friends! I released a video this morning about France's overseas territories, this video is a behind the scenes of the behemoth of a journey it was to set up that map. I hope you enjoy!

JENKINS!

Hey friends!

If you watched the video I posted today about how I make maps, I promised my massive, vector based, "Jenkins" map that I spent years refining, so that you can try it out for yourself. Click the link to download!

Map Background: Where The US Hides Its Secrets

Hey all! I hope you have all gotten the chance to watch this recent video about Liberia, the US, and the international economy. These are the videos I want to make more of, and this map was absolutely essential in telling that story visually. I tweaked the map for you all, however. Did you see the Liberia video? What did you think?

Behind The Scenes - Nostalgia

Hi friends! Wow, it has been a crazy month. I hope everyone is holding up well. I focused this "see how its made" on my nostalgia theory video. Let me know what you think!

Directors Commentary - Why New York Is So Huge

Hello Friends! This is a commentary on my recent video about New York City. Let me know what you think!

Script: The US and Canada Are Fighting Over This Rock

Here is the script from my video about the United States and Canada's border dispute - over a lobster-filled piece of ocean. What did you guys think of this video? Let me know in the comments! Did you already know about this dispute?

Behind The Scenes: How I Script

Hey friends, this months behind the scenes I am not going over an animation or program, instead, I am talking about how I script, generate ideas, and how I wrap my mind around video concepts.

Map Background - Why New York is So Huge

Out of curiosity, how many of you live in the area shown on this map? Bonus points if it's along the Erie Canal!

Directors Commentary - My Quest To Photograph A Galaxy

Hey friends! This is the most requested directors commentary of them all! I hope you enjoy!

Script: Junk Mail

Hey All! Here is the script for my junk mail video. I was bot frustrated and intrigued with this concept and all the niche categories of this industry, the scripts depth certainly reflects that.

Map: Can you guess the next video?

Hey All! Let's have some fun with this one. If anyone has a curious mind, my next video will be focused right here. Comment below where you think this is, AND what you think the video may be about. I will check in in 24 hours to see if anyone has come close!

SCRIPT: How The US Stole The Middle East

This is the script for my most recent video, How the US Stole the Middle East. David Vine, an expert on the subject was extremely helpful in the making of this video, I consulted him several times throughout writing the script. I think you will notice that this one is formatted differently in some spots than other scripts. Always be ready to pivot the direction of your script when an absolute expert gives you insight!

Wow!

What an outpouring of support lately. I'm so grateful to those who have been here supporting my work as well as those who have recently joined since hearing about Borders. 

Let me tell you what is on the horizon. I'll be posting a high res map tomorrow from a video I'm working on. I'll also be posting the script from Middle East. its long lol. 

I plan to do a Behind the scene animation screen grab at the soon as well  in addition to some directors commentary. is the...

Behind The Scenes: How The US Stole The Middle East

Hey friends! This is a recording I did of a map animation for one of the upcoming videos I am working on: How the US stole the middle east. I am breaking out some tricks I have up my sleeve to make things look advanced and beautiful (a lot of them do not even take up much time!) I hope you enjoy. I am very grateful for this group of you. Let me know what would be helpful in the future!

SCRIPT: How the US Stole Bird Sh*t

Hi Friends,

here's the script for the Guano video. this one was very cut and dry. it started with a question: why does the US own all these tiny rocks in the middle of the pacific (like baker island). then I learned about Guano and the whole history and i knew it had to be a video.  It's striking to me that the shape of the United States is the product of so many little random stories like this. I hope to keep chr...

How it's made coming soon (Maps!)

Hey friends I'm working on this video "how to the US stole the Middle East" and I'm doing a bunch of map stuff. I'm be recording some of it and posting this week. Please let me know what aspects of mapping you would like to see. Thanks!

Johnny

MAP: Islands claimed by US Citizens

Hi Friends. I published a video yesterday about how the US grabbed a bunch of Islands in the Pacific and Caribbean. Here's a high res output of the main map that shows the nearly 100 Islands claimed by US citizens during this time. It's a wild history and I hope you enjoyed learning about it. 

Thank you all for being here and supporting me while I make these videos!

Johnny

PR/AE workflow?

Hello to top tier Patrons! thank you all for your amazing support. I only hope I can provide some helpful perspective to you. 

I've been getting  lot of questions about how I animate to VO and then time it up in Premiere. would this be a helpful thing to show in the next behind the scenes? Let me know

-Johnny

Sneak Peek on a Future Video

Hey Friends. I got a really intense stroke of inspiration today (Doesn't happen often) where I saw exactly how I video is going to play out. so even though I have other stuff I should be doing today I'm taking a moment to write. the video will be "How the US stole the middle east" 

Many may not know I studied international relations in my undergrad with a focus on Iran and the Middle East. then I got a masters degree in INternational conflict resolution and did lots of work on the ...

Behind The Scenes - August

I would love to title this post more specifically, but it is somewhat of a SECRET project I am working on right now. Watch to find out more! Comment down below this post questions you may want answered in the next one! Thank you to you all for supporting, seriously.