SovietWomble

The Forest - Update #2

Added 2022-09-23 18:33:45 +0000 UTC

Good evening folks. Hope you're all having a lovely Friday. Welcome once again to the weekend. Over here it's the end of the 3rd week of work on a video-essay thing:

Week 1 - Assembling the broad structure of points
Week 2 - Filling out the first half of the script.
Week 3 - Filling out the second half of the script.

For those not familiar, I really wanted to do a post-playthrough analysis/digest/breakdown of the 2014 open-world survival game The Forest. A game I found so profoundly peculiar that I can't stop thinking about why. And I really wanted to delve into it to explain what is so damn bizarre about this particular game.

This week I've been able to complete the script. Though I'm still quibbling with the final paragraphs. But for the most part - it's done. I think it seems interesting. Certainly territory that I don't think other people are really covering when it comes to survival stuff.

What worries me though is the scale of it. It clocks in at about 30,000 words. For context:

DayZ 1 - When Early Access is too Early - 3,477 words - 16 minutes
DayZ 2 - History of Arma - 1,974 words - 11 minutes
The Isle - 8,031 words - 40 minutes
DayZ 3 - Evolution of the DayZ Mod - 10,541 words - 42 minutes

So god damn. Is this 30,000 word behemoth going to be 2 hours long? That makes me nervous. I'm willing if you lot are, but that's very chonky. That's easily the longest video I've ever done. A substantial commitment.

Editing time - good lord I'm not sure I even want to think about that. But it would be pretty gigantic. I'll make the finishing script additions over the weekend and then ponder the next steps. Which would naturally be voice recording and assembling the the video-essays true form.

What are your thoughts?