So if you ever followed this blog you have probably seen something about Season 2 of our public access show According to Whim. At one point in 2019 I talked about it and how very close to it actually being complete it was. If you didn’t know it wasn’t complete because about 1/2 or 3/4 of the way through the hard drive I had all the files on crashed and I lost A LOT of it.
Fast forward to today(ish). I had been cleaning out my hard drive when I came across the first few episodes of Season 2.
After a brief watching I have 2 conclusions…
1.) It is so cringe. That because I am watching me and I am awkward and not an actor. But it is public access and you gotta do what you gotta do…
2.) It doesn’t need to be finished as it stands. It needs to be re-worked.
So at the time these shows (30 minute episodes) were going out on Public Access in Fort Worth, TX. It had to be precisely 30 minutes to fit in the time slot. So that meant a lot of padding…
A LOT OF PADDINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
So every shot is drawn out. Reaction shots are sometimes unnecessary and in some cases, actually slowed down.
Each episode has a long intro, ‘last episode’ segment, intermission, ‘next episode’ segment.
I need to have someone like Miguel take all the footage and re-edit all 6 episodes into either some 15 minute episodes or one long ‘movie’ (which would be like an hour at the most I’m sure).
It would benefit from brevity and some of the stuff should just be cut and consigned to the void forever.
Here are all the Season 2 blog posts incase somehow you are interested…