Reaction Shots - Training Arcs

Reaction Shots - Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL

There's a bit of a story behind the creation of this video that I feel needs to be told, at least to provide a more vague explanation than the one in the video itself. At the beginning of the video I allude to technical problems, but unlike my most satisfying deaths video, I try not to sound so mellow about it, although I make light of the situation both times. The thing is I hadn't been planning on making this video until barely more than twenty-four hours before it was uploaded. I had begun scripting it, but wasn't planning on putting it together until later, if at all, and the format was supposed to be different, and instead I was in the middle of doing a traditional episode of Read Right to Left. I was due to put the episode up on a Saturday and had filmed everything on the Tuesday prior, and that's when the technical problems started. I couldn't get the audio to record properly, and ended up recording half the script three times before it finally stuck; then the video footage wouldn't transfer from my camera to my computer properly, and cut off the last three or four minutes of my recording session; then my audio problems continued as I recorded the voice-over portion of the video. But still I was willing to work through all of this, until the final straw came on Friday afternoon, when I tried to arrange the video and voice-over portions of the review together, and found that somehow roughly a third of the audio had been corrupted and lost. By this point I realized I had too many things to do over again to do the review, and now I had less than a full day to make some kind of replacement, because I had already reserved a timeslot in the TGWTG release schedule. Less than a full day, because my graduation ceremony happened to fall on the same day that the video would be going up. So I took the half-complete script of the ZEXAL review, adapted it to not include any shots of myself, and recorded myself running through the script faster than I've ever done before.

Reaction Shots Episode 2

Suzumiya Haruhi's second season and Naruto chapter 467 (last week's).

Older episodes: Reaction Shots 1

It first hit me while I was doing the Seven Sinful Series video that I was going to start having trouble putting out videos as often as I wanted to. I can't remember exactly how I came up with it, but Reaction Shots was something that I intended to help fill the gap between reviews - it entirely cuts out what is for me the most time-consuming aspect of making a video. Unfortunately I haven't taken advantage of the idea since the first episode came out. The video was a lot of fun to make since I got to be creative with a good number of props and, of course, costumes. As I was shooting it I started to get nervous that it wasn't going to turn out well, but my fears were quelled once I cut the footage down.

Completed June 25, 2009.