Welcome to the things that are going through my brain. I know, not nearly as dirty as you'd think. Either way, if you're not sure, poke it with a stick, and if it looks scary, don't mess with it. - Curator H4773r
h4773r -Thank you so much for the GOLD write-up. This is David, creator of GOLD and NOTZK, and I wanna tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time.I also wanna say, and you may be surprised here, that I agree with much of what you said about Season1, especially where sound quality is concerned. We learned a great deal about producing indieTV from making Season1, especially when it came to technical aspects and storytelling for film. We, like you, were primarily theater artists - actors & writers dipping our feet into video production for the first time. I'm proud of GOLD and still really love it, but if I could do it over again, using the know-how I now have, I'd do it in a heartbeat ;-) (I will also say that the sound and color for Season1 have been entirely remastered - we did that so we could produce a DVD. The re-mastered video and sound, while not perfect, are greatly improved. if you buy the DVD, that's what you get, though we have not yet released those remastered episodes on the web. Maybe soon...)The difference between NOTZK and GOLD Season 1 is primarily that we started NOTZK with a better grasp on what we were doing. We were better storytellers, and just better at making indieTV, from writing to preproduction to production to post - we just were better able to plan and execute. It helps that NOTZK is a much smaller show, too (5 characters and two locations, as opposed to 25 characters and nearly a dozen locations), and that it is a drama, as opposed to a soft, loving satire, but largely the difference is directly track-able to the growth our production and storytelling abilities.We're currently raising money for GOLD Season 2, and hope to conclude that story, as well as tell many other smaller stories like NOTZK, in coming years. Each time we go to work, we do our best to raise the bar and to make our new project build in quality on the previous. Love of RPGs and filmmaking, and support from fellow RPG enthusiasts like you, is what drives us.Thanks again for taking the time.-David
h4773r -
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the GOLD write-up. This is David, creator of GOLD and NOTZK, and I wanna tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time.
I also wanna say, and you may be surprised here, that I agree with much of what you said about Season1, especially where sound quality is concerned. We learned a great deal about producing indieTV from making Season1, especially when it came to technical aspects and storytelling for film. We, like you, were primarily theater artists - actors & writers dipping our feet into video production for the first time. I'm proud of GOLD and still really love it, but if I could do it over again, using the know-how I now have, I'd do it in a heartbeat ;-)
(I will also say that the sound and color for Season1 have been entirely remastered - we did that so we could produce a DVD. The re-mastered video and sound, while not perfect, are greatly improved. if you buy the DVD, that's what you get, though we have not yet released those remastered episodes on the web. Maybe soon...)
The difference between NOTZK and GOLD Season 1 is primarily that we started NOTZK with a better grasp on what we were doing. We were better storytellers, and just better at making indieTV, from writing to preproduction to production to post - we just were better able to plan and execute. It helps that NOTZK is a much smaller show, too (5 characters and two locations, as opposed to 25 characters and nearly a dozen locations), and that it is a drama, as opposed to a soft, loving satire, but largely the difference is directly track-able to the growth our production and storytelling abilities.
We're currently raising money for GOLD Season 2, and hope to conclude that story, as well as tell many other smaller stories like NOTZK, in coming years. Each time we go to work, we do our best to raise the bar and to make our new project build in quality on the previous. Love of RPGs and filmmaking, and support from fellow RPG enthusiasts like you, is what drives us.
Thanks again for taking the time.
-David