Box Peek November Update (Patreon)

Hi everybody--I'll make this entry pretty quick since it hasn't been too long since you've last heard about Box Peek. Episode 6 is coming along super slowly, still in the drawing phase. We don't have to panic about til the December update.

For this month's Production Stuff notes, I'd like to talk about another aspect of Box Peek that was unexpectedly time-consuming: Sunday nights. In previous monthly updates, every time you heard me say an episode is done, that meant it was Pretty Much done. Every Sunday before a premiere I'd pop the project file open, give it a watch, and then disappointedly shake my head for twenty minutes straight. This was the start of the hours-long process of getting the episode into something I feel safe uploading to YouTube. (Jones helped set up the Ep 5 Q&A. He dragged the video file into XSplit and just said "dude--version EIGHT?") A good chunk of this process was applying audio techniques and sound effects I established in later episodes or just trying to keep everything visually unified. A couple of times the constant tinkering led to sleepy last-minute errors popping up (a typo in Ep 1 and Don's missed credit in Ep 2) but other times, it would be 4:30am, and for the first time in 40 viewings I realized that there's no indication Yinzer Poff's match began in the cold open, so like I gotta find an unused audio clip of Peekref 12 doing a countdown and just make it faintly audible in the distance. That kind of change is so stupid but also I would have hated the episode if I didn't catch that before it got out.

This post got long anyway. What I mean to extract from the editing-til-4am nights is that I'm probably never going to stop doing that, like I'll always want to make edits until the last possible moment, and so I'm just planning to account for that when wrapping an episode the first time though. Going forward, when an episode is Pretty Much done, that can mean Kind Of Done, since I know I'm going to put in hours the night before no matter what I do.

To everyone who's watched the show recently and encouraged me over the last year with every sad new post, thank you. Box Peek has been a grueling process for sure, and I'm well aware we're only halfway done, but it feels good to have gotten this far. 

Thanks for your patience and support.
Love & Respect,
Kyle