SUPER SECRET BEHIND-THE-SCENES VIDEO PREVIEW....
Added 2023-07-14 16:00:10 +0000 UTCEverybody did their covid era video essays in 2020 and I guess this is going to be mine, my version of "everyone is completely ill and off the deep end now and here's how I feel about it"
My video essay/review on The Teeth never got that many views, but I did have multiple people tell me I got them into The Teeth due to it. So maybe with this video I can call attention to a different, more unhinged musical performer who I am a fan of, and get more people into his work. Maybe this video will also get actual views. lol.
This is not a video essay clip! This is a screen recording where I talk for ~10 minutes off the cuff about the video I'm working on and my process!
If you want to do a little homework before watching the eventual video essay (this is all optional lol):
-Read Roadside Picnic (it's only 200 pages)
-watch Hypernormalisation (tw for everything)
-Check out this song and this song paying close attention to the lyrics. Then immediately watch this this and this : )
-I don't even know what to recommend for Connor O'Malley if you haven't seen his work previously. His newest video (NSFW) is as good as any! I'm a big fan of his!
-If you somehow haven't seen Alex Jones Rants as an Indie Folk Song, watch that too
Check the little video here out!! And let me know if I should do more WIP videos like this as I make more video essays?
Comments
I finally caved and I'm probably gonna rewatch and pull from Can't Get You Out Of My Head too lmao. RIP. I could have spent a week just reviewing Swords fot an easy video instead but I want the video to be more meaningful so I'm going really hard
Shannon Strucci
2023-07-21 06:20:09 +0000 UTC"i'm tired!" lol i was getting tired just looking at this--really makes me appreciate how much work goes into stuff like a video essay
surasshu
2023-07-21 06:13:47 +0000 UTCOh awesome! I'd say take a second to listen to Swords and if you don't have time or energy for the whole album check out Sometimes and Shakedown. I also like Shadows and Stairwell a ton. The whole album is good. I'm not as big on Heart of Mold and Etc. but I do love All Shook Up off of Etc. All Shook Up didn't hit me very hard at first but actually listening to the lyrics it's fantastic. He and I are around the same age and he put out Etc. around the same time I started my youtube channel and he was way ahead of me at the time as far as where we were in ability our respective mediums lol
Shannon Strucci
2023-07-20 04:03:59 +0000 UTCHell yeah, I'm extremely excited for this. I got into Nick Lutsko's work recently (I actually think it was probably because you mentioned him on Twitter), but I've only ever listened to his post-Swords silly YouTube stuff.
Robert Phillips
2023-07-16 05:52:54 +0000 UTCOh, yes, easy mistake to make. I've wanted to play "Blade Runner as reimagined by Hideo Kojima" Snatcher for a long time too.
Colin Ferguson
2023-07-14 23:21:48 +0000 UTCCan't Get You Out Of My Head is great too though I disagree with more of it vs Hypernormalisation I don't mind janky games! I love Deadly Premonition lol. Also I'm just realizing that for years I have mixed up Snatcher and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. lmao. Oh well. Luckily I like FPS games too
Shannon Strucci
2023-07-14 17:50:08 +0000 UTCI hadn't seen it, but I did just finish reading it's Wikipedia entry and I'm fascinated. I'll have to watch it soon. As for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, they're pretty janky, the result of a studio with too little experience and too large ambitions. But if you can get past the jank, they're still quite good. They have a kind of atmosphere that hasn't yet been matched by anything else. This trailer for the not-yet-released (having your country invaded will slow down development) S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 does a really good job of selling the kind of mood the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games evoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4xyN1n7ysQ
Colin Ferguson
2023-07-14 16:32:22 +0000 UTCHave you seen Hypernormalisation? Not that Curtis spends the whole time talking about Roadside Picnic, but it's probably worth watching. This interview is really good too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZypbVJ16Jk I still need to watch Stalker but the fact that a bunch of people died due to making it is really depressing. And I have meant to play the games for years! So I'll probably play at least one of them before I finish this video!
Shannon Strucci
2023-07-14 16:23:43 +0000 UTCYou had me at "Roadside Picnic". (I have a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. cosplay so this instantly got my interest.)
Colin Ferguson
2023-07-14 16:17:17 +0000 UTC
