Q: what progress have you made on the video today?
A: today had some very intense setbacks and yet very intense progress. lately as i've shifted into the beginning stages of production (from writing) the looming magnitude of this project has intensified even more, which is hard to even imagine considering it was already unimaginably intense (the research and writing actually took 12 weeks.) there are endless new challenges, and i saw some particularly technical ones today, relating to processing power, etc. i will need to make small comprimises across the board in order to do anything at a respectable pace. that's about all i can say without going into detail. on the other hand, i had some victories content wise, regarding re-writes and trims. at what is now 5:56, this point was at 7:15 in the first draft. this is good news because i was concerned that the original 22 min draft not only had some tedious and tiresome parts, but it is also not reasonable to ever expect to finish the video if it is that long. getting into the swing of these re-writes, the prospect looks good for actually bringing this endlessly long thing down to a still-very-long but very swift and exciting adventure, and also be feasibly finishable by the end of the decade