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     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!