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Hi if you're here you're probably wondering what's going on with Episode 9 of Flying By Wire and uhhhhhh I've got some NEWS... good or bad depending on how you look at it!!! I personally think it's good, but who knows what you think!! OK OK OK LET'S STOP BEATING AROUND THE BUSH - Episode 9 has officially RESTARTED production.... SORRY!!! After a lot of consideration and going back and forth on what I wanted to do, I decided to fully rewrite Episode 9. We were pretty far into production, all the voice lines were filmed, most of the footage shot, and I was a couples scenes into editing but, every single time I opened the project I was just filled with this sense of dread. I was NOT enjoying working on the episode at all, which of course made me worry that I was burnt out and not enjoying making videos, but then I BLAZED through work on Machinima Evolved so... that meant the problem was THIS EPISODE! I think ever since I had finished the script, something about it just felt really off to me. I mentioned this briefly in the last update, but I was really worried about how different the script for Episode 9 felt to me compared to the other episodes of the show, and I think as I was editing it just became more and more evident. What I ultimately ended up realizing is that I think everybody felt very out of character. Flying By Wire hasn't had too much of a chance to really flesh out all the characters just due to our short episode lengths and the way the story has been told so far, but I realized that even through the short amount of time the show has had, the characters DO have traits that make it feel really off if I don't focus on. The one in particular that really made the NEW script click for me is that Fireteam Husky is just a bunch of slackers! In the original version of the script (that you unfortunately won't see), they are a lot more active for no real reason which I think made everything else feel off. I also struggled a lot with the characterization of Eagle, since he hasn't been on screen much and has a lot to do, it was hard not to write him as just "generic bad guy". Between the original version of the episode and the new one, I maybe wrote 4/5 different versions and through that had another *click* of how to approach him in Episode 9 which really got the whole thing rolling. No spoilers for that though! 
You might be wondering, "Why not just finish the original episode? Everything was basically done!" and to that I say YEAH MAYBE that would be smart, but I've kind of been instilled with this phrase "Delete Your Art" for a long time. I've been a fan of the channel Drawfee for a long time, it's a group of artists all drawing different things, but they bring it up a lot on that channel. If you're feeling stuck on something or you just CAN'T get it to work, just delete it! Start over, and it'll end up better almost every single time. I keep it in mind with scripts, drawings, and as you can see full videos too! I think it's just nice to be able to detach and let it go and not send yourself down a spiral of frustration and anger and forcing out a result that's probably not going to be that good.
This isn't even the first time I've done this with Flying By Wire! I'm not sure how many people remember this or were keeping up with the behind the scenes back before I was doing these blogs, but I had pretty much the exact same situation with Episode 6, How The Other Half Lives, which ironically is another episode involving Eagle. Had everything recorded, filmed, and that episode was way shorter than Episode 9 was to be. But when I was editing, it just DID NOT WORK! So I approached the script from an entirely different angle and restarted everything, and I'd say episode 6 is WAYYYY better for it, I LOVE the way that episode turned out. So hopefully this will end up the same way! The tweet I made about that is pretty much how I feel doing it this time though!
And I'd like to give a big thank you to Kristina, Woody, Kip, Ethan, Syp, and Jax for all helping me out and giving me their thoughts on the new episode and ideas on how to approach it!!! Everyone is very supportive and they all rule so much!!!!
So... what's next? We are basically right back at square one now, slowly gathering everyone's lines and I'm saying a million thank yous to everyone for rerecording their lines and not being mad at me that I'm not using any of the stuff they did before. SORRY!!! In the mean time, I've been going through and getting maps ready, testing different things to see what we can pull off in game, and putting together some armors for side characters. All the images I'm including in this blog here are just test shots I had gotten to see how things will look/how to frame certain scenes.
I'm really excited to get things moving on this video and wish I could be editing right now but I have to FILM first and that BLOWS!!! (In other news, I'll need some body actors to play some background parts soon CHECK OUT THE MELLOHYELLOH DISCORD IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN HELPING OUT!!!) We also have been getting a bit of a backlog of recordings done for other side videos to be putting out in the meantime that hopefully I'll be able to get done soon. Finally want to get some Campaign Evolved videos out (is that still relevant?) and one of them has a REALLY DUMB idea/script that I'm really excited to get out for everyone because we've all been dying laughing about it behind the scenes. I feel REALLY BAD that the last episode of Flying By Wire came out 10 MONTHS AGO WHAT THE HELL!!!! I really want to get Episode 9 out before we hit a year on that, but we'll see because we also gotta get working on our video for the HALO FEST MACHINIMA CONTEST!!!! (we'll ALSO need some background body actors for that remember the discord I mentioned earlier??) I KNOWW I always say this channel doesn't matter and I still hold that true to an extent, but I do also feel bad about my upload schedule being VERY IN THE DUMPS this year. We'll be coming up on our anniversary soon and I aws hoping to have more out this year than we did last year. OH WELL THERE'S ALWAYS NEXT YEAR!!! 
SO TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT I'M SORRY!!!! Episode 9 is going to take a LITTLE LONGER but I think it WILL BE WORTH IT!!! There's a lot in the new script that I really love and I'm much more excited for you all to see it than I was with the original version. I think this one feels a lot more like Flying By Wire while introducing new things that'll change the series going forward. I think this blog has been a bit more scatterbrained than they usually are SORRY BOUT THAT I just have a LOT OF THOUGHTS about making this show and EPISODE 9!!!
I'll leave you with this short clip I edited together to test something for the new version of Episode 9 and it's up to YOU to decide what to make of it!!!! A great thing though is that while I'm fumbling through trying to make an episode of my own show, there are a TON of cool people putting up better machinima videos on YouTube as we speak!! It's time for THE MELLOHYELLOH SPOTLIGHT!!!!
MELLOHYELLOH SPOTLIGHTTHE AXE FORGETS - GUARD DUTY S2E1 by SPITE BOX STUDIOS
HOLY FUCK GUARD DUTY IS BACK!!! I've been a fan of Guard Duty for a while now and lucky enough to call Syp and Jax my friends!!! They blew the season premiere out of the water and really laid the groundwork for what I assume is going to be a great Season 2 of Guard Duty! So nice to be back with the Guards again and lots of interesting plot threads being set up LETS GOOO GUARD DUTY!!! THE LAIR OF EVIL | CAPTAIN TORPEDO by CABEANIE'S WORLD
This video just randomly ended up in my recommended and I wanted to check it out because BOY are Halo 2 Anniversary machinimas rare! And I loved it! They really nail the golden age superhero vibe, the presentation of the entire video is so great. Sounds like it's going to be a series too, so I'm looking forward to seeing more! Captain Torpedo, save us! MEET THE POST OFFICE - MAIL TEAM SIX E1 by MXNDOPRO
I've been hearing about Mondo's series for a little bit and am SO excited it's finally out! It's a great first episode and I LOVE the premise of following a Postal service team in the UNSC. I always love when machinimas focus on some part of the universe that you wouldn't normally think of! Can't wait to see the rest of the series!! Also Mondo likes Ska so this was getting the mellohyelloh seal of approval either way. I (DON'T) NEED A HERO by RENT4BRENT
Always love seeing new faces join the machinima community, and especially the Infinite scene (definitely no bias from me), and this video is just a fun little introduction to Rent4Brent's channel. Love all the shoutouts to so many machinima creators, and this whole video is just super well shot, really impressive for a first video! And I'm really glad it WASN'T a plug for HaloBox's discord! POV: IT'S SEPTEMBER 1ST by THAT COBALT SPARTAN
I PROMISE I'M NOT SHARING THIS ONE BECAUSE I'M IN IT!!!!! DON'T SAY THAT I AM!!!! I am ACTUALLY adding this one to the end of our list to say the MACHINIMA CONTEST for HALOFEST is now open for submissions! Cobalt does a very good job at reminding all of us (me included) with this video, so good that the official Halo channel even shared it! I want to see everybody making something cool come December, so get working! I believe submissions close November 1st, so I BETTER GET WORKING TOO!!! 
OK THAT ABOUT WRAPS UP MY RAMBLING FOR TODAY!! Thank you everyone for sticking around all this time even through this little period where I haven't been uploading much. It means a lot to me to have this community and I hope nobody's ever feeling slighted!!!
Check out the mellohyelloh discord in the meantime, I've been trying to be more active in it recently, we've been doing a lot of Halo Custom Game nights that are a bit sudden and sporadic due to my schedule, but it's been a ton of fun to hop into some games with everyone! We've been jumping around all the games recently, but currently have the next one planned to be in Infinite and then another in Halo 3 (for Magpie Leon). I'll also randomly hop into VC from time to time so if you ever see me in there feel free to join and say hi! AND FOR ONE LAST THING, a little self promotion here in my blog self promoting the thing I make, is ANOTHER THING I MAKE!! I just started posting some pages of a Webcomic I've been making over the last few months, EMPTY SUN! Above are a few textless pages and covers I've done for it! It's a sci-fi romp very inspired by stuff like Cowboy Bebop and of course Halo, and it's been a LOT of fun for me to work on recently. It's a mix of ideas I've had for various things going back years, and it feels really cool to be making!
Only a couple pages are up on twitter right now (posted in a thread I linked here in these pages and will embed below), and I'll be updating those as I go, no set schedule right now. Eventually once I reach a bit of a wrap up point, I'll collect it all as "Issue 1" and post it all together either HERE on the DarkTriforceFilms website or somewhere else cause I don't know if the website builder I use here really is made to support an easy way to read comics! It barely supports an easy way to run a video website! FUN FACT: The ship in the new Flying By Wire logo comes from this comic! Little bit of an easter egg for me and me only! OK OK SELF PROMOTION OVER I'VE RAMBLED ENOUGH FOR REAL THIS TIME! OK!!! YOU SHOULD BE ALL CAUGHT UP TO SPEED ON ALL THE MELLOHYELLOH GOINGS ONS NOW!!! Thanks for reading and watching and all that stuff I said a couple paragraphs ago when I was trying to wrap up but then kept talking. FLYING BY WIRE STUFF SOON I SWEAR!!! I'll leave you with this very poignant clip from ZeroGlitches that I think really sums up everything I was trying to say in this blog.
BYE EVERYONE WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS OR SOMETHING - YELLOH // LOGAN
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