Good evening everyone. Hope you're all doing smashing. Greetings to all Patrons and new Patrons coming in from the Rust video.
I took a week off after the editing and I'm keen to get back to work. Technically I have been cheating a little bit. I started editing last Thursday. I got a little bored and decided to make a cheeky early start on Random PEAK Bullshittery.
PEAK for those not familiar, is a little mountain climbing game released last year year. It's a tad friend-sloppy. Meaning it lacks a lot of polish. But we've had some fun in it. I've managed to record a total of 25 hours over the course of 12 streams.
To explain the editing process for the newer viewers - what's happening right now is the creation of an Adobe Premiere "master" project file, as I call it.
Basically a big bucket full of all the jokes from any particular game. Cut and organised. And stored alongside the stream footage itself on the massive NAS storage device on my desk.
CSGO has one, Holdfast has one, Rising Storm has one.
Adobe Premiere lets you trim off little clips and name them. That's what the bullshitteries have always been. Compilations of all these little clips, trimmed from the livestreams and kept in a master.
PEAK however doesn't have one. So I've started making it. I'm going through all of the footage and trimming off bits that will seem useful/that I have notes for.
It's far too early to tell if I have enough for a full 10 minute bullshittery. I'm going to need a few more days to get back to you. I've only gone through 4 of the 12 streams.
But thus far the overall character of the jokes consists of lots of small moments. Things like falling off stuff, comedic screaming as someone falls from the cliff. It's not like CSGO where everyone has perfect voice coms regardless of distance. The in game voice forces very short interactions with only those in the immediate vicinity.
For example, I have these things I call "03" joke. Where there's extended heavy cutting and continuity (for example, a long extended banter sequence between me and Cyanide).
I only have 2 of those so far. Consisting of Quebec joking with a trumpet and another joke with Alasdair complaining about being single over the course of a level surrounded by couples.
The overwhelming majority of jokes entering the master thus far have been quick "01" jokes. Little things that require almost no setup (example "Why do you have Deagle, Moogle?" "Because it's Tuesday", hardcut).
No doubt this will influence the cutting choices I have to make.
Additionally, I'm tempted to see if I can chain the jokes up to their relevant biomes. Perhaps in line with the actual progression of the game.
As in the airport - SHORE - JUNGLE - MESA - LAVA - KILN - end.
But that's only a vague idea. It can be a bad one because it chains the editing to arbitrary level locations. Rather than what flows comedically and well.
Let me keep building up the master file and I'll get back to you at the end of this week with my progress. Hopefully by Friday I'll have something taking shape on the timeline.
Thanks all.