Video: This Is A Hard Day's Wonderful Night To Remember (Patreon)

yes that name is a placeholder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ1a9D-8yyU

also comments are off on the video bc i know I'm gonna rerender it; please leave comments here, thanks!

i have been working on this video nonstop since the last one came out. it was supposed to be a quick release in time for christmas, since i only intended to cover It's A Wonderful Life, but as I dug into it I discovered so much more that I ended up buying other discs on ebay, and slowly realized that this is all one story, and that there was no way to break it up into separate videos. the second one would just be completely unwatchable, since it would be full of countless callbacks to the first one, so the only way for it to work was to do it all at once. this of course necessitated several weeks of scriptwriting and research.

i also wanted period hardware, and nothing I had really fit the bill until I came across this beautiful Packard Bell at REPC in nearly NIB condition and fully functional, so i was compelled to buy it at Nearly eBay Price, though I don't regret that since it included the keyboard, mouse and monitor. then of course i had problems - in the video I mention issues with the graphics, but I also had to replace the hard drive because it was too loud, a miserable slog that took a whole night.

then the replacement drive turned out to be too loud, so i had to replace it with a CF card, a miserable slog that took a whole night.

then the power supply died, and i had to scrounge up a replacement, but this PC actually takes a slightly proprietary supply so I had to find a PSU and bodge it together at 9PM.

then on the day of the shoot, that PSU turned out to be too loud (the fan was deafening on mic) so I had to tear the machine apart, open the supply, and replace the fan with a newer one.

then that turned out to be too loud, so I had to open it again, splice in some extension wires which i ran out through the PSU vents, and attach it to the 5V rail on a hard drive plug. by undervolting the 12V fan it reduced the volume to near inaudibility, and i was able to proceed with the shoot. if this had failed, or if it had caused the machine to overheat, I wouldn't have a video right now.

as it happened, i do have a video, and it's quite long! and it could have been shorter, but I didn't want it to be. i ended up settling on an A/B structure for the script - context, product, context, product. hopefully it's not too hard to follow, but I couldn't think of any other way to do it. good luck!