Q: Looking back at the description of the Japan video, you said there was 1 day on temp narration and then on to the graphics, and then jingles. Just so I'm clear, are you currently on graphics?
A: that's not quite what it was, but i am still not on the real 'graphics' phase. the current phase i'm still on (and will hopefully be done with in about 12 more hours!!) is kind of like a pre-graphics phase. call it 'pictures', call it 'image collection', call it 'graphics planning', call it 'phase 2', i can't figure out what to call it, and it doesn't really matter. but it involves taking what the words are, and then figuring out what exactly i am going to put in the graphics. like what am i gonna put on screen if i said *this.* a picture is worth a thousand words so it takes longer than you think. plus accuracy is really important. if an i say an earth quake happened in russia, i'm not just going to throw the earth quake in the middle of russia, i need to put it right where it actually happened. so phase 2 deals with all that stuff. including occasional re-writes, as i sometimes will realize that something in the script may be wrong or not work, and have to change it. all the re-writes are rock solid now, and another part of phase 2 is also done (which i can't really talk about right now, and is heavily related to graphics) and now i'm just finishing with pictures, at the 14 min mark as of today, moving roughly a second per minute (which is way up from before, i am setting timers every hour to track my progress and always find new techniques to really push it to the limit) but i will definitely be done with phase 2 like tomorrow. then i will lay down a temp narration for timing, and do temps for all the jingles, and put them in place so i have something to work over, and then do the real actual graphics, which will be what the video actually looks like. that took 30 days for history of japan, but this video is twice as long. the remaining tasks after that also took a total of 30 more days for history of japan, and again this video is twice as long. however, i have set a deadline for the entire video, which is approximately 33 days from now. as you can see there is a huge discrepancy from reality here. but that is how this needs to be approached. the deadline is causing me to think differently, and it is thrilling, and will at least cut the remaining production time in half, even if not the required 1/4x that would be needed to meet the deadline which is surely impossible but as i said i am still taking it seriously, i hope that answers your question