A Massive ol' Update.
So, what have I been doing this past 30 days-ish?
Well, it's been an extremely busy one. I managed to finish the Game of Thrones Episode 5 video right before the special episode of EFAP took place. The video did wonderfully and I think it's one of my best in terms of production, the animation portions really gave some of the ways I was constructing arguments a bit more edge, or that's what I thought regardless and the visuals were as crisp as I can muster.
It covered pretty much every problem I had with the production of that nightmare episode and I did everything I could to package it in an entertaining format.
The EFAP episode I am referencing was number 50. The one where me and Rags streamed for 24 hours... or at least, that was the expected finish line, these things can often go for longer than expected. You can find it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1nPWzos5Vo
Either way, during the time with the GoT video, I had built a backlog of recordings and content ready for editing smaller videos in relation to the EFAP channel "Mooler" this includes the Minis, Movies, EU and episodes in general.
I had ignored them for the primary video.
So, I committed to getting everything in that backlog finished up before continuing with a large project and I imagine that's how it might work out in future...or not...more on that in a sec.
For the sake of transparency, let's talk about everything I have done in this past month for video stuff shall we, first would be the main EFAP videos I suppose.
We got episodes 51 through 57 completed, all with new topics and some new guests, discussing anything from whether a "massive" is Jamaican to whether Joker is a racist film.
A full playlist for EFAP can be found here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21tx9U6M70g&list=PL6A9eYEQJWqt_D5BUjrmKrOhWZE3aB9CL
EFAP is going stronger than I could have foreseen and there seems to be a very strong community behind it. The intention is to keep as close to one episode per week as we can while adding supplementary content as it progresses.
For example; EFAP Minis:
The Star Wars D23 Special Look, The Lady and the Tramp, Terminator: Dark Fate, Sonic, IT 2, Toy Story 4 and I guess you could include the Rambo rant.
These are all essentially vehicle videos to discuss a topic that's relevant but that we don't intend to cover more deeply at the time. They can take a few hours to a day to edit but they represent the smallest stuff that was put out, a link for them is right here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6_tkakKQs&list=PL6A9eYEQJWqvstbiOllSxSE8YnX4g3J9V&index=11
Next up is the "EU" or Expanded Universe of EFAP, meaning videos that have some great moments with the cast of EFAP that don't take place on the MauLer/Mooler channels. This includes some streams we are invited to, debates that have fallen away or been deleted and perhaps streams playing games that have led to some hilarious moments.
There isn't a playlist for this set yet because there's only two but three were created during this month and they are set to release soon, as some extra content, including the two debates that I had with Wolf about The Last Jedi and critical thinking on art.
They took some time to edit down and refurbish from the originals but they function with what I would call improved pacing, enjoy them soon folks.
The newest example of the EU can be found here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vesQymeO5fU
Next up, we have EFAP movies, an endeavour that was much more than first realised. The short version is that we have recorded episodes for 5 movies, all are now edited and they represent the bulk of the time in the last month for work.
Not only do you need to cut everything up for entertainment purposes, but there are many edits for comedy and pacing that are not typically present in other content and they take time to get right.
Once everything is finished, they end up being rendered and are as long as an hour and a half in some cases. then comes the copyright bots and this is something that is hard to translate but I will do my best.
YouTube is a twat with this stuff.
When I upload a video that has copyrighted material in it, I will receive a message about that pertaining to one specific timestamp of evil doing on my part, so I re-edit and re-upload. This is a frustrating process as it cripples my PC until finished and it takes a decent chunk of time.
But recently, they seem to have altered their system to let me know there is an issue between 2 and 6 days after uploading. This changed on whether the video is live as well.
Which means that I continue working but I get told randomly that my video is now down, some of you may be aware that the DOOM EFAP Movies went up twice, only to go back down twice.
That is currently being worked on, as well as the other 4, me and a friend are trying to keep them live on a different channel until they are swatted and then we re-edit and re-upload, once they stay up for about 2 weeks, they will clearly be ready for release but none of the 5 have survived that long yet.
This means that they are completed works but we have to wait until YouTube allows them to come out and play. Until then, here is the playlist for the current set of EFAP movies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRI5TlOPizU&list=PL6A9eYEQJWqv7wGTnlBaX6NeZgMNrJ6-p
Next is the EFAP Minis for TV Shows.
We have recorded 1 for Torchwood and 2 for Batwoman, all 3 are rather hilarious and represent a microcosm of the editing required for EFAP Movies. The Torchwood one was requested by Jay Exci and will be released once his video regarding Doctor Who is completed but the other two are already out.
You can find episode 2 of Batwoman being looked at here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al0mb2c1eow
Which leads me to the last but not least:
"MauLer and Passion of the Nerd Audio Commentary - The Fly (1986)"
Passion of the Nerd and I recently finished an audio commentary for The Fly (1986)
it was a lot of fun and it functions the same way that the previous two commentaries have, I promised I would make more of these and I haven't been able to with everything else that's happening but as of today, I finished a corrected render of that audio commentary video, it will go live on October 31st and should hopefully represent more to come in that format.
Here's a link to the latest one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM-SWBNgEKA
It took some time to edit, as do all of these things but that leads us to a sort of summary.
I have completed 21 videos since releasing the video on Game of Thrones, videos that range from full audio commentaries to podcasts, to reactions to analysis videos supercut for entertainment and some bonuses here and there.
EFAP/Mooler related content is incredibly important to me and the fans that have developed for it.
It's a chance to have a casual setting in which to discuss all kinds of interests as opposed to hyper focusing, which is also a lot of fun but a different experience. The videos I have made over the past month have been sitting in my queue for ages and it felt good to get it all done and have plenty left to deliver as I work on something bigger now.
But obviously, none of the work described is work toward a new bigger analysis video and that it upsetting for many people. What I can say is that looking forward, I want to spend the ten or so days I have free before Terminator to re-draft my TFA part 3 script.
I can prep it for recording once I am done with a potential Terminator video, which is very likely.
My "expectation" not "promise" is to get another video out on TFA and Dark Fate before the end of this year with Mooler pushing out content alongside it.
And so you ask yourself,
But where is Outlast 2's review?
What about Alien Isolation?
What about Dark Souls 1 and 3?
What about Avengers: Endgame?
What about the rest of the MCU?
What about The Force Awakens Part 3 and more?
What about Star Wars as a saga?
What about Joker: An Unbridled Praise?
What about Season 8 Episode 6 of Game of Thrones?
What about the show as a whole?
What about Buffy? Angel? Hill House?
What about Shadow of the Colossus?
What about Metroid?
I have to stress that I rarely spend a day not doing something toward work, be it editing/rendering/uploading/researching/writing etc.
I have now created so many different videos that are focused on an episode or a film in a series or what have you that the audience have natural expectations for what comes next and they get VERY frustrated when they do not see what they want.
Upon releasing the Episode 5 rage, I had several comments saying "You took too long" that video was partially a nightmare to construct, every day was spent on production. And of course, many of you will say "Don't listen to those comments"
And you are right, but I want you to know that i'm aware of how you guys are feeling and I am pushing on, even if it seems I am not. I have no sense of burnout or a lazy attitude, that will not infect these two channels, at the very least, not for now.
But this stuff, as always, takes time.
I have found two candidates for editing specific videos, one of them edited one of the videos mentioned above. Once a few examples have been created, I would like to give them more work, compensated of course and if the other works out as well. Things can pick up.
Hiring editors is the natural step toward making more content on a smaller time scale, but the entire process is very difficult/time consuming when trying to get right.
Thank you all for supporting the channel as much as you have, more videos are on the way and once there is a significant amount of information to share, I shall post here again.
See you in the future o/ <3