travelling through time

     This week in DarkTriforceFilms, we turned on the ol' time machine to get something done. Officially starting off with our videos filmed this year, we just released Blast to The Past, which was a very last minute video on our part!
     This video might have seen a little out of nowhere at least after the previous editions of the Report, and honestly it kind of was! Back in March, we partially filmed a couple videos when Woody was back in town, and the plan was originally to finish those up in April to release for May, but April ended up being the month of scheduling conflicts and illnesses which led to the time available to film and edit any sort of video being a very small window - which is also why there was no second video last month (hopefully we'll have 2 for May to make up for it!)
     So, after weeks lost to covid and travelling plans, as the last week of the month rolled around I decided it'd be better to try and write up a shorter sketch, as even if we did get the videos from March done, there wouldn't be enough time to get them edited in a way I was actually satisfied with. So, based purely on the fact I had been growing a beard for most of April, my idea was to do something with "Future Logan" which is a joke we keep bringing back (although he is usually portrayed by my brother).

     Most appearances of Future Logan have been from a pretty exciting future, but in order to have reason for showing up in the past in this video, the future had to suffer a terrible fate! I wrote the script for the video in about a day or so, and then sent it over to Austin and Kip who were the picks for the stars after we'd been playing lots of Phasmophobia recently. And surprisingly, that makes this the first video where the interns have starred as themselves together ever! Every other video they've been in, it's either been one of them as a different character (like Austin in A DarkTriforceFilms Christmas) or just as random background characters (like in Buddy Cops 3). 
     So on the last day of April, we gathered at Charles' house for a very chaotic filming session. The video ended up being around 3 minutes long, but there are some takes we filmed that are almost double that length, from various interruptions like Charles' dog barking, or sudden Maroon 5 sing-alongs breaking out, but it didn't matter too much because none of it was enough to stop us from finishing this video!
     With Friday as a deadline, this video was down to the last minute, I finished editing and exported the video on Friday around 1:55 PM, and then uploaded it for 3:00 PM just to have a buffer between uploading and posting. There may or may not be another video relating to this one in the future, we'll see if we decide to follow up on our idea or not.
     Now, you may be wondering why I didn't just finish editing on Thursday, it's one of my days off, surely I had time - but the reasoning is actually what I want to talk about next!

     On Thursday travelling even FURTHER into the past to medieval times, we recorded our very first session of a new attempt at DarkTriforceDND! Any die hard fans might remember way back during our more active streaming days on twitch, we had started a DND Campaign under the same "DarkTriforceDND" title, but it quickly fizzled out due mostly to scheduling issues, and since then we've been talking about continuing that or trying something else - and recently I was inspired to do just that, and take a crack at DMing a campaign for the first time! For the show this time, I decided to do a prerecorded show instead of livestreaming, in order to edit it down into a more streamlined and presentable package, although I'm still figuring out exactly how what it's gonna look like in the end.
     The graphics I have now are not final, but just what I've been using as placeholders, and I don't have an exact idea on when episodes will start dropping - ideally I'd like to get at least a few recorded before any are uploaded to avoid big gaps in case we have scheduling conflicts on our end. The first session went well and I'm excited to see where it goes and eventually how the show comes out! For anyone interested, the cast includes Myself (Logan Gonsalves) as the DM, Woody Hamilton as The Monkey (Lvl. 4 Barbarian), Charles Hufferd as Kuno Grey (Lvl. 4 Monk), Alex Clair as Carson Bohal (Lvl. 4 Bard), Carlota Gonsalves as Erendriel Yavie (Lvl. 4 Cleric), and Nola McCarthy as Vahagar Venom Tongue (Lvl. 4 Ranger)!

     Hopefully I'll have more to say about this as we continue with our sessions and I start the editing process of the first episode. We recorded this over discord, since we have a couple of out of state players with Woody and Alex, so I did my best to format the process to be as enjoyable as possible over discord, so with the video I want to make sure it's more enjoyable and attention keeping than if I just hold on the gallery view of all our cameras for the whole time. That's the big part I'll have to figure out before I can really give anymore updates on this series. But I hope it works out, I enjoyed our first session a lot and would love to do more, hopefully even more campaigns in the future!

     And that about wraps up this edition of The DarkTriforceReport! Looking forward to making more videos as we get into the summer, summertime always seems to be when we take our biggest swing at making videos, and I expect this summer to follow the same path. I'd love to get into some more diverse content this year, shows like DarkTriforceDND or other unscripted videos that aren't just vlogs. We've tossed around a couple of ideas for things to do, but the only way to begin is by beginning, so I'll sheath my sword and head out onto the open road. Go check out Blast to The Past if you haven't already, it's short and sweet! But until next time, this is Logan, signing off!