June update- (new major Video progress)

 Heya folks! 

 As we're approaching the end of the month, I think it's best to let you know how we're getting on with the next big video. Lots of good news to share!

 When I started writing this video a few months back- a look at a famous directors musical movies- it was honestly intended to be a short, maybe 40 minute video in the style of the Scoobyverse projects. But the more research I did and the more I included relevant examples so I could make my points, the more this ballooned into a musical odyssey that now spans a little over 2 hours. It was getting so unwieldy that I had to knuckle down and split it into two parts.

 As you can see quite a lot has been done and initially I thought I could get this out before the end of the month, but as I'm watching there's things about the way the video words certain ideas or the way it's structured that I think definitely need to be changed and will probably take me over to early July.

 This isn't a huge issue though- my new process for a while has been putting the video on its feet like this, getting over the hurdle of actually making a full edit with all the relevant clips and beats, and then criticising myself and revoicing and reworking stuff after the fact. It doesn't take so long to change because everything I know I need is largely there, and I have a much better idea of how to improve it based on the existing edit. Hell, I came back from my stage show on the 13th and have been editing every day since, so for a 2 hour video I planned months beforehand to come together that quickly is pretty good, all things considered. 

 It's a real B Mask extravaganza! There's critique, gags, insight into the history of musicals and the people working through them, we're covering a huge amount of stuff and I want to make sure it's perfect because I'll probably never get to talk about these films this way again. I think you're getting something you genuinely won't have seen from any other channel even if the subject might be something you've seen a couple times out there. I'd reveal what that subject is, but we're so close to it now I think it's better if you all discover the surprise for yourselves once it drops. 

 I will, however, reveal the subject of the next video.

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 We're doin' the Jak series. 

 This isn't too much of a surprise for long time patrons- I wanted to do this last year but surgery and other issues got the better of me, and I put the project on the backburner. It's been in the planning stages even before that, I've always wanted to get my feelings on Jak and his games off my chest since I did a (not very good) Ratchet video long ago, but it's probably for the best I waited. So many other people have had their say, some I've agreed with, some not, and I think i'm ready to have my turn now the buzz around their takes have died down. I've been working diligently to put a better script together and I've managed something I'm much happier with than whatever I had when I started. Once the musical vid is done, I'll be going back to punch that up one more time and then put it into production.

 It'll be a full series discussion, not a terribly long video but fairly comprehensive, and I'll leave the angle I'll be taking on this one up to your imagination until it's complete. 

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 So, that leaves the roadmap with two more videos after these before I commit fully to the next big Marvel project. One of those videos has a near full first drafted script, the other is still in the note taking stages. Both are on major TV shows- I don't think either will be quite as difficult to put together as the project I'm working on now based on what I've written so far, but you never know with these things. Fairly confident, once again, that the angle i'm taking on both is not something anyone else has done or can predict, I hope, boy do I hope.

 It's possible we'll still get some smaller videos done between those too- both the Return to Monkey Island video and the Dr Strange 2 video came together fast and felt good to do. I feel the more I make these huge videos the easier it becomes to make the smaller ones and I'm a lot more comfortable with getting them together than I was before. We'll see if I can come up with anything soon, and as usual all suggestions are welcome!

 It's been a busy old couple of months for B but I'm very settled back into the flow of making stuff and I'm grateful as hell to all of you helping make that possible. I'm still trying to think up ways I can repay you all with the changes I'm making to some of the tiers, but obviously I'm quite tied up in getting the main content completed so that's taking most of my focus. I figure most of you are here to make sure that's done and this is certainly the case, so once again, a massive thanks to everyone supporting what I hope are some of the best videos I've made yet.

 Alright, back to work for me. I have a lot of musical subtitles to cover. A lot.

 - B