There was some conflict with my co-creator this week in the he was traveling home on Monday night. This meant that he would not be around to shoot on our typical Tuesday morning. He suggested that we cancel our Tuesday video. I suggested that we shoot on Monday morning instead of Tuesday, so that we could still get an episode out. Then I learned he had too much work to help write the script for Monday. I knew that I personally needed to get an episode out on Tuesday one way or another, so I said I would write the whole script. 

This is not a story to speak ill of my co-creator. This story is a testament to making sure what happened last year on my channel, doesn't happen again. Last year I had very little accountability. I posted about four times in December, and then I ran out of steam. There was nothing pushing me to hit my deadlines for videos. So other things occupied the time instead. I basically stopped posting altogether, with the exception of one or two videos. I believe that skipping just one episode because it is difficult to do, creates a slippery slope of bad precedences. Therefore, I knew I needed to make Tuesday's show happen for me, if no one else.

We had planned weeks ago that we were going to not to an episode on Thanksgiving. Jeremy and I were both out of town and it didn't make sense to ruin the holiday by shooting and editing instead of spending time with friends. Since it was always planned to skip Thursday it didn't bother me like Tuesday did.

Today I missed half of my class for Role of a Producer becasue I fell behind on one of our episodes. There were a lot more assets that I had time for, so I had to decide between finishing the episode or going to class. I needed to stay committed to the project, so I finished the episode and then went to class. It was either that, or not get out Thursday's episode until like 8:00 pm, which is 11:00 pm on the East Coast. 

instead of the same old posts, I wanted to show a bit of the behind the scenes this week. This is a photo from a few weeks ago, but it is still the same setup that we have today:

We have a very basic setup. First of all, we are just in the corner of a garage. We have the set behind me on the right. Then my chair. In front of me is another chair with my laptop that has the script, and the microphone that is hooked up to my laptop. Jeremy sits in the chair all the way to the left, behind the camera. And we have two lights, using the ceiling as a bounce board. It is simple, and it works for us. There are ways that I would love to improve upon sound, but until we have some disposable income to invest in the project, I do not see that happening. So until then, we will keep going with the setup we have today.

Something that we started doing this week was including assets in hyperlinks in our script. This way Gino and I knew exactly what assets to put where. This worked a lot better then our first system of putting a code such as "3.5" (meaning Story #3, Asset #5) in the script and naming the asset the same way. Now while editing we can just click on the hyperlink and download the asset.

Our editor had a time conflict this Tuesday and Jeremy and I had to pick up the slack. However, it all got done. It was not an ideal situation, but we understand that Gino is volunteering with us, and if he cannot do an episode, we have to be understanding of that.