Q: So with the Dec. 1 deadline, would you say your progress (both for the video and compared to the Japan video) is increasing exponentially?
A: it increased a lot after oct 15, which is when i established the dec1 deadline, but since then i have pretty much maxed out. i am still setting timers and making minute by minute goals which are attempting to push it tigher, 1min20 seconds (on graphics) per day is about the most i think is possible, that's my grand record, on a full day. but i am still trying to beat that. in order to meet dec1, i pretty much have to be done with the graphics by this thursday (which would entail doing about 4min per day at this point) and even if i did that, i would still have to absolutely crush the rest, at unprecedented levels. still have to record the final narration, and final vocals for all jingles (which mostly has dense 4 part harmonies, as you know. and there's 66 jingles) and do the score, which probably takes the longest out of those 3 things. very important, i wish i could let you hear what history of japan sounded like with only narration and jingles and no underscored music (it is very boring, the underscore has huge effect on the video, that's why i underscore all my own music, moment by moment). Everything after graphics (score, jingles, narration, labels, troubleshoot, etc etc) for history of japan took a total of 30 days. so even if i finish graphics by thursday (wildly impossible) i would have to complete what was 30 days (for a 9 min vid) in 13 days (for a 19 min vid.) so basically that would require more than a 4x speed improvement from what i was doing in dec/jan last year on japan. but, graphics so far has generally been running at 2x speed from last year. i don't know how that's possible. maybe because i'm not trying to make vines every day? not really sure how to account for it, but i guess i have more experience now