Big ol' Longo Part Two: The Innocent
Here is the rough cut of Bring Back What's Stolen part 2.
This one's even rougher than the last one. There are almost no titles or graphics, and I can tell it's going to need some reordering and rephrasing to improve flow and coherence. So, again, be gentle.
I feel like I'm really showing my ass by sending you each rough as it gets done rather than waiting to finish the entire thing. It feels a little naked to share stuff well before it's up to my standards. Just, please, understand the final version will work a lot better than these roughs do.
Also, gonna call it early: There is a decent chance we will push a little into next month before the final video is done. I'm sending you steady video stuff all this month, so I hope that keeps y'all sated, but I'm looking at the amount of time each rough cut takes and how many days are left in the month and I'm not liking my odds. Should this happen, my aim will be to release it early enough in September that I can still put out another video in September as well, but we'll have to play by ear. It's still possible that the pace will pick up as I get into an editing groove and maybe there won't be a delay at all. We'll just have to see!
-I
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One critique: you say "your older sister yells at to do something" and that kind of implies your older sister to be the femminst in the room, which kind of implies the audience to be male. I don't know, but it feels like the tendency of esp YouTube Videos speaking to the audience as if they were male, which is meh
Sounds like an example taken out of real life. By the way, that is exactly what I shouted myself. And I was not the only feminist in the room.
I am really enjoying this series Ian. Lays out the ideas firmly and eloquently with a lot of good editing to keep things clear and interesting.
This is going to be so gooood
So, I make these super intricate detailed line drawings and share the progress as I'm going via Instagram. I get the naked and exposed thing, for sure. But also, I've come to see how much folks appreciate my process. And it's cool to think that as a patron, I get some insight to your process. I love understanding how people move through an idea and come to ways of presenting that idea clearly. I also love watching how people get better and better at skilful expression of nuance and complex analysis. It helps me learn to do it better myself. So, I consider seeing your process a gift. :)
aw shucks, thanks Kait :)
I won't pretend to know where your argument is going, but this got me thinking about this moment between the Dag and the Keeper of the Seeds. Dag: You kill people with that, do you? KotS: I killed everyone I ever met out here. Headshots, all of them. Snap, right in the medulla. Dag: I thought somehow you girls were above all that. And that prompts the Keeper of the Seeds to show the Dag her seed collection. I always interpreted this moment as a sort of antifa apologia, saying that violence doesn't necessarily preclude respect for life or vice versa. But it could also be a commentary on the woman-as-pacifist. Anyway, great work! I'm loving seeing this come together.
There'll be some discussion of that in the final part.
I noticed this in re watching Sunshine. The women in the crew dismissed the male violence in the beginning of the movie each time, and the movie seemed to frame them in the right. (rest is spoilers) And then the innocent objected to murder for the sake of survival, and she was outright ignored. And then in the final scene, she overcomes herself to punch the bad guy (and yes, it's a disaster film where the bad guy is a man corrupted by the disaster)
No complaints from me! The alternative to seeing a rough video now is seeing nothing until it's completely done, so I'll take something now (albeit with a grain of salt).
I like this; this is good.
You have no idea how much i love what you do
I do now!
This is good and insightful stuff, and damn do I need to watch this movie.