This one is a little difficult to
talk about because…well… for one thing it isn’t available on YouTube anymore;
apparently taken down for violating some copyright law that may or may not have
fallen under Fair Use, (some companies are a little ignorant as to how that
works). It’s actually a really big shame
because nothing about it really went wrong outside of one disagreement
concerning how Korsgaard worded one sentence that I took offence at and one odd
instance where the picture turned brownish red for some reason, (I believe it
may have been a lighting trick that I was attempting that went wrong). Aside from that, however, everything went
great. The lighting was appropriate,
given the subject matter, the writing was good, Korsgaard gave a good performance,
the editing went so smoothly thanks to my switching to Adobe Premiere Pro and I
say that it was easily the best video of the three and is probably a contender
for the best video that I have made period.
And because of this it really is a shame that people can no longer view
it.
However, after it was complete I
more or less decided to stop making videos for Korsgaard, mostly due to
personal and creative disagreements I was having with the guy and we had a full
blown falling out not long after for reasons I don’t care to discuss here. It is worth noting, however, that he did
write an article on his site and made a webcam video explaining why the videos
had stopped coming. His explanation is
full of…half-truths at best, (three sides of an argument and all that), and I
never dignified it with a response and have no intention to do so outside of
what I’m saying here.
Since then, he has made attempts to
make video reviews on his own, and…well…they’re not very good. In total he came out with two within a couple
of weeks of one another, one being kind of mediocre and another that’s just
fascinatingly bad and is almost worth watching because of it. Around the same time he attempted to create
what I can only imagine was supposed to be his answer to Griffeth Galaxy
Productions; an organization called Sardonic Media Group that he formed back in
late March and even made a Facebook page for it and apparently recorded an
intro video as well…only not to post said video and the Facebook page has been
inactive since late March. This was
apparently due to an issue with YouTube’s copyright policies which has
apparently driven him to abandon his venture into the video medium all
together. Still, his website appears to
still going strong, he continues to write articles and his intended writing
carrier seems to be going forward so more power to him.
And that’s the story of my video collaborations
with Korsgaard. The whole thing may not
have ended well and the ripple effects of our falling out would be felt well
into the New Year but on the whole the making of these three videos was an
education experience for me and I would take these lessons with me into my making
of GGP videos. Although some of them may
have been a bit more…ill-advised then others.
We’ll get more into that next time.
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