Jmac podcast update

[prog]

I've written the scripts for my monologues and lead-ins for next Wednesday's shoot. With a total reading-time of around eight minutes, it feels rather wordy, but I bet it will work out. Some of it will be read over clips of the games we played in the studio, and the rest will feature me standing before the SCAT green screen, which I hope will ultimately be more interesting to look at than me sitting in a chair in front of a wavy curtain.

In both cases I'll be using the DIY teleprompter rig I described before. I made a test movie, just text crawling up at a measured pace, and it seems to work fine. If everything doesn't fail spectacularly, then the end product will be much more watchable than the monologues I've had to edit in previous episodes. That means less editing time, too, even given the increased green-screen futzing I'll have to do; trying to fix performance foulups in post-production is both more time-consuming and less fun than adding in more content.

Yes, "batman4050", we will mention the Star Control petition, as well as some other updates about things that have appeared on previous shows.

After I submit this episode to SCAT and put it online, I'm finally going to start promoting the damn show. I've picked up a few remote fans, which is very nice, but I get the impression that they somehow stumbled across the show against all odds. I'd like to push its presence a little more; even at our relaxed bimonthly pace through the first half of 2007, it's still hard work to put a show together. A little bit of encouragement in the form of fresh fan mail and feedback would go a long way towards fueling me and the rest of the team. I don't doubt that it'll be forthcoming so long as I can actually stitch a good show together and then get the word out.

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I would also like to make another Jmac's Arcade. I haven't made any since October and haven't promoted them at all, and meanwhile their instances on YouTube and Google Video continue to rack up comments from the haters. This doesn't bother me, but the fact that almost nobody else has commented (except for people I already know) makes me sad, since this suggests that the people who'd actually like it aren't finding it.

I have some ideas for fixing that, but I don't feel that I deserve to act on any while it's been three months since my last contribution to that feed. So, yeah, more to do.

Comments

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Thought about making a blog with the specific purpose of hosting the YouTube vidoes and promoting THAT? Maybe it's easier to promote a more conventional web presence, and it gives it a sense of legitimacy. Dunno if that's more trouble than it's worth.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Both shows have a website with a Google Video player containing the most recent episode embedded on it, and links to a blog-style view of all episodes (which actually links to my LJ with a tag filter attached, like this).

D'ya suppose even that is too much work, and I should put all of each show's episodes onto each page? It wouldn't be that long, actually, since neither show has more than a half-dozen episodes yet...

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Oh, haha, I didn't realise jmac's arcade already had a web page. I'm trying to think how I came across things I like on the web... usually it's just through links from other blogs, and word of mouth. Perhaps you could find a few like-minded gaming blogs and let them know about it, maybe get some links that way?

Maybe you need a rad new logo? A more arcadey-themed web page design? I have no idea really. :o)

[(Anonymous)]

Star Control rules!!!