tying up loose ends

     This week in DarkTriforceFilms, we scrambled to get everything done that we could before BACON starts production! While not as filled as the last few weeks were, we didn't slack TOO much this week. We filmed an entire video (besides the endcard but that doesn't count) named Time Capsule, and finally FINALLY finished filming The New Logan! That leaves us with 4 finished videos to edit with Narrator and The Intervention also on the slate. It's been so much fun to be filming so constantly and really be productive with DarkTriforceFilms recently - we had been calling this the comeback year since May, so it's good that we're actually following up with that, haha.
     One of my new year's resolutions (well really the only one) was to upload more videos than the 2 that we uploaded last year and hopefully enough to finally do a proper end of the year montage video again. Right now counting the Tales From Summer Camp set, we're 1 video ahead of last year and we'll have all of these to add to it soon - along with the Gag Reels that will come with them and some extra DT Life videos and such on the side. And after a bunch of consideration - you may be seeing the elusive DarkTriforceFilms Disney vlog EVENTUALLY (it'll take A WHILE to edit). Ok, let's get into what we actually did this week now, huh?

     As tradition, here is our weekly Narrator ​update, this one will be really really quick, okay? We can stop talking about this soon - but hey this time it's something different than stills! It's a short video, so this week I thought I'd give a quick preview of what the editing timeline currently looks like for the video. This is right near the end, so the video will end up being like 2:30ish minutes long. There's one like big edit I have left to do right here at the end, and after that just color correcting and a lot of audio clean up. I'll say hopefully this is done by next week, but with Bacon starting production this week and every other thing I do as well, we'll see how much time I have. Now let's move onto something new that we did this week!

     After the unfortunate attempt at filming Dead Man's Hill last week, we met up with John and decided to film an entirely different video named Time Capsule. This video was one I wrote like immediately after Charles and Woody mentioned wanting to bury a time capsule, and I guess it just struck a nerve in my head because this was finished basically in one day. We were also joined by Kristina Handy, who is responsible for most of the camera work in this video as we stumbled through with our skeleton crew. 
     We returned to our old stomping grounds for this one, heading to "The Field", a soccer field that was by my old house and has been featured in many videos between both DarkTriforceFilms and even Hamilton Productions - like The Jetpack, Project Slenderman, Spaced Out, The Spook and I'm sure it's made some other appearances - but much like with DarkTriforceFilms it seems times are changing for our beloved field! Almost all the woods and trees around the area were cleared out and there were construction videos all around (which you can see in some of the preview images) and the soccer goals and fences that once stood and surrounded the area were all gone as well. It worked a little bit in our favor since we had to dig a hole for the video, and we were a bit worried we'd get in trouble digging one in a soccer field, but they seemed to be doing some digging of themselves too so it didn't matter.
     Although, we were worried that now with all the construction and general openness of the area that we weren't actually allowed to be there - we were the only car parked in the parking lot of the church that owns the field, so I'm sure that we looked somewhat suspicious. But despite all of that, we were able to get the video done before the sun set, so big shoutout to Kristina, Woody, and John who all did wonderful jobs! It was nice to actually get something done with John after last week, and I think he did a great job with his performance in this and I'm excited to get around to editing it soon! And then we wrapped up the night with a great trip to Chili's. I didn't need to mention that, but I don't know it was my first time and that felt important.
     Anyway, want to hear an update on another video you've been hearing about for weeks now?

     As I said earlier, I'm happy to say that we are officially wrapped with filming for The New Logan (well technically we have 1 reshoot to do because we messed up continuity but that doesn't count)((and also technically another cameo but that filming isn't up to us so that also doesn't count))! After 3 weeks, 4 locations, and a slew of different people within it, we finished up by shooting the opening scene to the video, which you can see some stills from above - and possibly piece together some details about the plot of the video as well! I figure you should get at least some of that after hearing more and more about this each week.
     It was great getting to finally finish this up as it kind of kicked off our tour of productivity, even though this isn't going to be the first of this batch of videos, in my head it feels like the start of this new era of the channel, which I originally thought The Year Without DarkTriforceFilms was going to be, but now that feels more like a prologue to it. I haven't even finished editing the first of this batch, but they all feel a bit different than that  video at least in terms of how we filmed it and my personal sense of quality between them. I'll have to see what video will start being edited first after Narrator, so maybe this one will start on it's way while we wait for that last little cameo section to be filmed. But that's all we have for now, the last reshoot we need to do is already scheduled to get done in between times where we'll be filming Bacon - so we aren't too lost in finding out when it'll be done.
​     And while we are focused on our live action content right now, we weren't all work no play - we took some time to relax in a blocky little world.

     For those of us who used to keep up with us on Twitch, you are probably familiar with our most popular series Bedpit - our Minecraft survival series that has been going since 2019! While we technically had 3.5 full seasons (Season 4 was kind of half finished, moving into the minecraft series that was on Woody's Channel) and then like 2 or 3 seasons that weren't really seasons, we had taken a bit of a break as it was becoming evident that we were getting a little minecraft'd out. But the other night a group of us got together for what we're calling a "Bedpit Reboot" and started a new world just like we started the original Bedpit - off stream. We've only played like 2 times now, testing the waters to see if we're going to keep going with this world or abandon it like the last few we tried, but so far it's looking good. Our last play session I had recording on OBS, and leading up to when we finally decide to stream I'll have it run on our twitch channel as a rerun, most likely a part of a DTV block.
     As for the original Bedpit series, the entirety of Season 1 and I think most of Season 2 is up on our DarkTriforceExtras channel, and I'll have to go searching for the rest of Season 2 and 3. Recently I was going back and watching some of those old streams and I'm back to toying with the idea of cutting the streams down into shorter official episodes, but I've always had the question of where those videos would find their home at. While they could technically go on the main channel, with how many streams and seasons there have been, it would very quickly result in some clutter. So maybe they could go up here as website exclusives? Let me know what you think (you can find me on social media, I'm sure.) I think if I did it would just be Seasons 1-3. You know what, I'll put a poll up on the homepage of the website, so check that out.

     Now to wrap up this varied week, I want to thank everyone who was around to help us this week like I do every week, Woody, Charles, John, and Kristina - a bit of a smaller crew than usual, but that's okay as on Sunday, July 24th BACON officially enters production and I have a feeling that I'm going to have a lot more people to be thanking once that happens.
     HOLD ON BREAKING NEWS THAT HAPPENED LITERALLY AS I WAS WRITING THIS: WE ARE ONCE AGAIN THE OFFICIAL OWNERS OF DARKTRIFORCEFILMS.COM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD I AM FREAKING OUT! 
     This was a very unexpected update, so for some quick backstory for those that don't know - our website was originally a .weebly.com website, and I believe in 2020, we traded it for an official DarkTriforceFilms.com domain name. Now, originally I had just set it for a 1 year renewing subscription, but unfortunately between when we bought it and when it would be renewed, my card was compromised and cancelled and I may have forgotten to update the card on the website leading to us losing the .com domain. Now, my first thought was "oh I'll just buy it again, who would want a domain named DarkTriforceFilms.com?" but it turns out somebody did!  And boy did they want my money! After looking into contacting the owner once we found out it was basically impossible to access our website during this, I was told they were asking for almost 3000 dollars for it!
     So of course we didn't go for that, and instead found a way to revert our website back to a .weebly domain before finally deciding on the .pizza one that we have been using for the past year - and out of the blue just now I decided to check on DarkTriforceFilms.com and it turns out that whoever had it finally let it go! And so for much much much much much less money than 3000$, I bought .com and now own it for at least the next 10 years! This truly is The Year of DarkTriforceFilms!
     Ok, phew - now that we've gotten through the breaking news we can actually wrap this up now. I'm working on a new homepage for the website, so hopefully you should see that soon, possibly at the same time as this is posted, perhaps you've already seen it! But anyway, that is truly all for today. What an ending, you got to see my reaction in real time to getting our original domain back!
     I wish you all the same luck with your domains as we have gotten today, and until then, this is Logan signing off!