InnuendoStudios

Early Access - Life is Strange (& help me, please)

Hey hey hey team!

New video essay is online for your perusal: an arguably overlong dissection of Life is Strange's weird genre mashup.

A few things will change before this goes public - there are some vocal pops I need to re-record, the footage from Donnie Darko is glitchy, and the audio levels are uneven, but this is more or less what will go live in a couple days. Hope you like it!

Now, a reque...

I Need Some Voice Contributions!

Hey team!

I have a small (arguably odd) request: I need some voices for the next video. If you have a mic and 5 free seconds to record a smidgen of audio, help a guy out!

Here's the plan:

1. Go watch this clip of a very famous line from a very famous movie.
2. Record yourself saying the line in unison with the video (wear headphones so I don't pick up the source audio).
3. Email the audio fi...

Through the Eyes of Women: The Handmaiden

The new video  is done and public! It is significantly revamped from the Early Access version: new audio, slightly revised script, better pacing, much improved graphics. I'm a lot happier with it. Feels real good to be releasing stuff again, and thank you all for you patience!

Now go show it to everyone you know.

Early Access: The Handmaiden (& Updates)

Hey team!

New rough cut  up online. Bit out of the usual wheelhouse - this is a 15-minute dissection of Park Chan-wook's film The Handmaiden, a movie I watched earlier this year and immediately wanted to dissect through the lens of screenwriting principles and feminist film theory. This was an "I'll get to that at some point" video, but, then, I took a lecture class this semester called The Female Gaze in Film a...

News: 50k Subs & Ramping Up

Hey team,

I wanted to do another update video, but then decided that any time spent editing the thing would be better spent editing a proper video essay, so here's me writing a text update like a normal person.

Short version: Innuendo Studios hit 50,000 subscribers today (wooo) and videos are going to start coming out a lot more regularly. Feel free to stick around for the long version.

50k subs is an especially important milestone for the channel. A little while back, Dan Olson of...

Early Access Video & Update

Hey team,

A new video is up, called The Alt-Right Playbook: Introduction . This is a rough cut - there are a few lines I'll likely re-record, some timing I want to tweak, and I've already caught and corrected a typo. So this version is just for all of you.

Let's address the elephant in the room: this video is brief, short on content, and took way longer than expected. It's an introduction to a series, and the next video...

January Update

Hey team,

It's January! A new year in a couple senses for me, since I just had a birthday. I wanna let everybody know where we're standing with the channel right now.

As many of you probably know, Extra Credits released a video  of recommendations for YouTube channels their audience should check out, and Innuendo Studios was one of them. EC has a pretty enormous following, and this led to the largest spike in traff...

Tomatoes, or How Not To Define "Art"

The new video  is live! You may now tell all your friends. This version corrects a couple typos and fixes some of the flickering that was happening in the preview version.

Funny enough, this was one of three videos I had planned to start 2016 with. I wanted to do this one one art, one on video game violence, and one on the future of consoles. Over time, the violence one got rewritten and shelved fou...

Early Access: Ceci n'est pas une tomate

Happy New Year, team! I managed to get a video online before December's end. It will go public on Monday, probably. For now, it is just for you - a little something about why "art" is hard to define.

I'm not 100% sold on the title, so if anyone has suggestions after seeing it, do let me know. :D

Video Update: When The Hell Is The Next Video?

A vloggish update on what's going on and how soon I'll have new stuff online. I'll be in the comments if folks have any further questions. <3

A Hard Day

Hey team,

This has not been a good day for me. This has not been a good day for the US, either. For anyone who's wondering, the next video is on its way and should be online soon. I'm checking in now to let you know that, in light of this election, the future of Innuendo Studios is likely to get a lot more overtly political. The channel has never shied away from politics, but has always talked about them in the contexts of video games and web culture. And I will probably never stop talking abo...

Another Podcast

Hey team, I was recently on another podcast: Polygamer with Ken Gagne. I've been following Ken for a while since we bumped into each other at GameLoop a few years ago, and was honored to find out he's a patron. (Thanks, Ken!) I generally recommend the Polygamer podcast - all you Smash fans should check out his in...

Critical Distance Podcast

Hey folks, that interview I did on Critical Distance just went live! Hopefully I don't sound like a total dip.

Housekeeping & A Flurry Of News

Hey team! Some unfortunate logistics news and some cool updates:

Bad news up front: very likely no video in September. I'm currently juggling four freelance gigs and school just started. I got a lot of writing done in August, but there has been very little time for production this month. Looking at how deep into the month we are, I'm pronouncing a September video Very Unlikely. It's a bummer, but until we hit that next funding goal it's going to happen from time to time as I try to keep...

Annotations: Story Beats

Hey team! I've been working on this off and on for the past month or so, and I'm finally ready to share it with you: All four episodes of Story Beats are now annotated!

Story Beats: Dear Esther
Story Beats: Limbo
2016-09-06 00:47:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Losing Time To Save Time

Hey all,

I've been toying with an idea all month and I have officially decided to go with it: I'm devoting August to writing. The script for the next video is more or less done (just needs a proper conclusion), and normally I would roll straight into editing. But, instead, this month I'm going keep writing scripts.

The reason It's Not Easy Being Blue came out so quickly (aside from it being one of my shortest videos) is that I wrote the script before The Artist is Absent wa...

Sonic, Dropsy, and Housekeeping

Hey team,

First up: It's Not Easy Being Blue is now public, so you can shout it to the heavens.

Second: I wrote up my thoughts on Dropsy. No spoilers, but suffice it to say the game is kind of wonderful.

Third: some housekeeping - we've been playing catch-up with videos all year. I m...

Early Access: It's Not Easy Being Blue

Hey team! This is a small and, in all honesty, kinda silly video in which I get weirdly poignant about Sonic the Hedgehog. It was written over the course of a couple days to blow off steam during the very long edit of The Artist is Absent, and I'm happy with how quickly I put this edit together! It'll go public on Wednesday morning, probably. For now, enjoy, and do let me know what you think!

Cheers,

-I

July 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

The Artist is Absent

The finalized version of The Artist is Absent is now online. Go tell everyone you know.

Early Access: The Artist is Absent

Hey whoa what's up!

The big ol' video I've been working on seemingly forever is now live for all you early-access backers. It's called The Artist is Absent: Davey Wreden & the Beginner's Guide. Hope you've got some free time, because it's a bit over 32 minutes long.

The video will go public on Tuesday. I may do some tiny tweaks to this edit before then; I might want to lengthen some pauses by a half s...

June 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Recent Writings

Hey all! I finished a draft of the script last weekend, and I'm rather happy with it! I've been stalled all week on doing revisions and beginning the edit as I tend to a bunch of freelancing and other responsibilities. I have found time to do some other writing, though, so I'm collecting that here:

2016-06-03 14:34:13 +0000 UTC View Post

May 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Epic(?)

Hello folks,

Here's a wrinkle: this Patreon pitched the release of videos at 10-15 minutes in length, and the script I'm working on now is shaping up to be something like half an hour. I have a personal rule that says "don't go over 20 minutes unless it's warranted," which is why I've only gone over 20 minutes one time. I could trim this script down, but I kind of really like it? But long videos also take l...

Innuendo Studios on Reddit

Hey all,

Your fellow patron Jason put together an Innuendo Studios subreddit last week! (Apologies for taking this long to tell you, it's finals.) Those of you who have, or are interested in acquiring, Reddit accounts are welcome to start some discussion there, and we'll see if that goes anywhere. I'm also gonna mention it on Twitter and whatnot, so it won't be exclusively ours. (If anyone's wondering, yes, I...

Thoughts Solicited!

Hey team,

Last week I solicited your thoughts on what our best ways of interacting on Patreon are. I got a lot of feedback, so thanks to all of you who shared your thoughts!

The strongest running theme was folks saying, in essence, "Hey man, I'm not here for perks, just keep making the videos." Which is certainly encouraging. And most of the folks who wanted anything simply said they'd l...

April 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Soliciting Your Thoughts

Hey team,

If you've got some time, do please read this post, as I'm going to ask for your input at the end.

We've been doing this Patreon thing for about half a year now, which is pretty cool. So far, our communication has been pretty functional - I post work, y'all see the post and then watch the video. Sometimes I post an update on how the work is going, an explanation for why work is running late, or a collection of written work. It gets the job done. But I do wonder if it's m...

Story Beats: Bastion is Live!

The final installment of Story Beats is now public, so you can share it with your friends and neighbors! This version is ever so slightly tweaked.

Alrighty, let's talk shop:

You may notice this video is 14 minutes long. The promise of this Patreon is that I aim to release one video of at least 10 minutes most months out of the year, or two videos of less than 10 minutes. Story Beats was pitche...