A Few Hours of Light

Let’s see what’s on the plate for this week: Monday through today.

As I stated before, I won’t to into work discussion unless something interesting enough happened.

Monday! The guild left Archimonde up because they suck So we went in and one-shotted him on this usually non-raid scheduled night. That was fun, it’s always good to log onto WoW and just fuck a boss up quick and get the hell outta there. I still need tier 6, but since people have been soaking it up in Hyjal, and now that we’ve progressed further in Black Temple (which will be discussed later), I feel I’ll upgrade better pieces first and hopefully we’ll traverse back into Hyjal when we’ve cleared BT and I can fill in the missing pieces.

After WoW, I worked on the first episode that we reshot. Just to recap: the “1st episode” is actually the second one we’ve done, but our original episode is sort of the 0 (ZERO) episode, maybe a pilot if you will, that fueled us to continue working on the series. Anyway, besides the dance scene we want to add (with me dancing in front of a green screen that we have to shoot one day), the episode is pretty much done:

http://vimeo.com/1513176

It was originally going to be called What Happened That Day, but because I put “Nearly There” in parenthesis, it seems like I might stick with that for whatever crazy reason (I put that there because the episode was nearly complete). Since our episode layout is still under discussion, I put a sort of gag reel at the end of the first episode to lighten it up a bit and keep the glasses slap in there, even though we laughed during both takes.

Tuesday! We headed into Black Temple for the new WoW week to take care of some bosses and clear up to progression fights (like RoS). We cleared everything up to Bloodboil, who we barely got before the night was over due to a wipe on Supremus, Gorefiend, and one or two on BB himself. This left us with only RoS to work on for Thursday, which is good, because we had already gotten him to phase 3 before, and I knew we’d get him next time we came in.

I took the first podcast footage and audio off the hardware and onto my computer. It took me a little while since it’s an hour long (and in the future, I may or may not have to play around with video settings or do something to make it easier to extract the video to my comp). I put it up on Blip.TV and sent it to Gavino to check out, but he ended up being embarrased by the way he was shown (apparently he didn’t realize the way he was sitting and the camera’s angle). I ended up taking the video down but kept the flash file (since the raw video footage was like 10GB; flash file was around 2-300MB). When we actually make a site and get it all situated, I’ll host the audio for the first podcast and hopefully video from there on (2 & 3 seemed to have better angles).

Wednesday! Filming day. It was time to start discussing and filming for episode 2. We ended up getting probably 90% of the footage we needed, and though I haven’t watched it all yet, I have a feeling it’s going to be great. Either way, I’m going to mess with the footage tonight (Friday) so that we can check it out and discuss what needs to change/be added/taken out/etc. and we’ll fill in the gaps accordingly (I have to film the “blinking in and out of the car” scene and another scene or two of blinking, like in my office [which I wanted to do today, but I forgot the teleportation machine in my bag], and backyard/field of some sort).

Anyway, after filming, we came back and played some video games (like Braid) and watched some stuffs (Teen Girl Squad and other Homestarrunner fun stuffs). I won’t discuss too much about what we filmed exactly until I post a link on how it’s looking, then I’ll talk about it.

Thursday! Back to Black Temple. After a few discouraging RoS attempts, we finally got that fuck face (fuck faces?) down. The guild happily started making our shadow resist gear so we could get Mother Shaz attempts in. I had to buy a few primals (life and shadow) to fill in the gaps of my non-farming (I did have 6 shadow 1 life, but I needed like 12 shadow 9 life ><). I also had to buy some primal fires to make my updated spell damage alchemist stone =D. We headed up through the fun trash to Mother, and after 3 attempts (2 if you don’t count the horrible first one) downed the bitch quite easily…yay tier 6 shoulders for people!

After Mother, I started watching Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden, but I was a bit intoxicated, so I fell asleep (though I do want to finish it, because it was really good).

Friday! Well, since I haven’t LEFT work yet, I guess it’s the only thing to talk about…though it hasn’t been very exciting (but surprisingly busy). And that’s all I have to say about work!

Plans for this weekend/upcoming?! Tonight is mom’s house for dinner and upwords possibly. After that, it’s head home and work on the video, hop on WoW and do dailies / BGs and possibly drunken kara / other stuffz! Saturday, Gavino & April want to do our Digital Press/Mitsuwa Marketplace extravaganza, so we’ll probably do that. Then all that’s left is talking about episode 3 and other questions/suggestions, get podcast 2 up (and hopefully not down immediately GAVINO lol), film again on Wednesday…and life goes on!

Cause if you’re not really here, then the stars don’t even matter