This week in DarkTriforceFilms, we planned ahead. Sticking with our goal of at least one video a month, editing on The New Logan was finished up this week so expect it to land next month! But before we touch too much on that, this month's second video was uploaded yesterday! DT Life returned by documenting a moment in history - the day that DarkTriforceFilms and Tymoso met face to face!
As I mentioned in last week's Report, this was edited by our own Cameron Kaercher! It's a nice short and sweet cut of what is probably the most important moment in YouTube history! It's nice to officially have DT Life back on the channel, we had recorded some footage here and there over the summer for it but none that really amounted to anything - but DT Life is technically one of the oldest running series on the channel, originally starting in 2014 I believe, so it's nice to keep it going. Up until now, DT Life has been very haphazard in the filming process and very spontaneous, but as we go forward we're trying to focus it more into specific ideas for each episode, hopefully we'll have some examples of what I mean by that in the future!
Also, to get into very specific graphic design stuff only I really care about, the previous few episodes of DT Life I had tried a specific branding for the show, using it's own logo and I tried switching up the editing style a bit, but after the main harddrive that I kept most if not all the DarkTriforceFilms stuff on died late this summer, I lost the old graphics for DT Life - but I realized with all of our sketches and other videos, the text is in ALL CAPS, so for now I figured with DT Life being more laid back vlog content, the thumbnails will use all lowercase. This as well as the font color and stroke, where other content uses the same colors and backing as the logo, I'm just using a light yellow and gray for these. But back to more important stuff! This March (the 3rd specifically) officially brings The New Logan to YouTube, which means soon I'll finally be able to stop bringing it up here in the Report! Enjoy some stills from the final cut, color corrected and with graphics edited in in some cases! Written by Charles Hufferd and Woody Hamilton and with some small revisions done by myself, The New Logan will find Woody and Charles finding a replacement for me after something mysterious happens!
This video is clocking in at almost 10 minutes exactly, making it our longest scripted sketch (not counting things like the Buddy Cops videos which are more short films), and I think besides Ripstik Randy is our longest sketch in general? This video was edited by yours truly, and I'm really happy with how it came out. Putting it all together I was worried it was gonna drag with how long it seemed to be getting, but after finishing everything up I think it flows very well. I'll have more to say about it when it's officially released though! 
That's about all there is for this week, so I'll leave you with the thumbnail (as of right now) for The New Logan, subject to change cause I'm not actually sure how much I like it. I've been thinking of switching our thumbnail style as we go into 2023 - I've been trying to keep a certain style but switch it up every now and then to keep things fresh, before 2017 it was kind of no man's land with them but starting that year I had a style which stuck until it got kinda lost around the time Last Vlog On Earth started, and then in 2020 I switched to the style we're using now. We'll see though! I'll probably go back and update all the thumbnails from this year should I choose to change it. Thanks for reading through another lackluster edition of The DarkTriforceReport! Remember to cut out the box tops coupons out from the top and donate them to help the local school! Until then, this is Logan, signing off!
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This week in DarkTriforceFilms, we started 2023! After Bacon all wrapped up and we sorted through all the leftover bits of burnout, moves, and holiday seasons - we're finally back and finishing up the videos from the summer.
During our time off, we've started to rearrange the workflow and responsibilities behind the scenes - up until now, DarkTriforceFilms for the most part has been mostly run through me (Logan), I did all the editing, uploading, while writing and directing was a task shared for the most part with a Mr. Woody Hamilton. But as we try and upload more frequently and raise our bar of quality, it's become increasingly obvious that it's an impossible task for me to do on my own like before, and so you'll start seeing more of the crew's editing, writing, and other various jobs on the channel, all starting with Time Capsule here! 
Time Capsule just went live yesterday, and while not the first video he's had a hand in editing on the channel, it's the first sketch not edited by me! Woody was responsible for this one! The video follows Logan, Woody, and John digging up all of their past secrets that were buried long ago in their time capsule. And a special thanks to the illustrious Kristina Handy for her camera work and direction in the video as well!
With the new workflow, this year we're aiming to have at least one video a month - more specifically one of the classic DarkTriforceFilms comedy sketches per month, and whenever we can get to it, any bonus content like Gag Reels, DT Life's, or possibly some new unscripted content on the other weeks of the month. This month, the extra video will be the fabled DT Life where we meet the world famous TYMOSO! 
Graciously edited by Cameron Kaercher, documenting the historic moment when DarkTriforceFilms and Tymoso officially met in person on the streets of New York City (greatest city in the world)! We don't have a set release date for this, most likely sometime in the middle of February. It's a very quick and concise view of our trip, but I think Cameron did a great job with everything he had, and it's one of my favorite DT Life's in a while! Hopefully each month we'll have some sort of extra video to hold you over, but while we're speaking of the upcoming months...
Should all go according to plan, The New Logan should finally come out next month, it's making it's way through premiere and all it's crashes, and frantic scrambles to find someone to film a cameo part. But either way, expect it this March! Following that, the extra video (or at least one of them) should be a new gag reel, I believe it'll be Gag Reel #10! So everything is all set for the next few videos, but we might be throwing some more extra content up as I said, more than anything we are just looking forward to uploading more this year. 2022 was the most we posted in a while, although a lot of it was just the Bacon series, so this year should be a bit more normal in terms of programming!
Finally, just a few things to catch up on with the agenda following the last edition of The DarkTriforceReport, the last 3 episodes of BACON were released and you can now watch the entire series! The series finale clocks in at a length the original Buddy Cops series would be of, coming in at around 35 minutes, with the entire series sitting around an hour and a half. Happy watching! As we upload more, the DarkTriforceReport will most likely share a similar schedule unless we have exciting stuff to talk about that isn't related to something being uploaded - but The Report will continue either way! I'm excited to get out all the content we've had in the Vault and I'm even more excited to film any of the multitude of scripts we have waiting to become full videos. I'll have more to say about those and how the jobs and responsibilities behind the scenes are changing and who's doing what in the future, but until then - this is Logan, signing off! |
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