EasyAllies

November Box Peek Update

Added 2017-11-01 04:48:25 +0000 UTC

It’s November 1st (on the East Coast at least), which means it’s time for another Box Peek Update. Here’s what’s been happening:

- In our August update, I had just finished the first draft of the scripts and I was patting myself on the back. It has taken me a ridiculously long time to fix and rewrite them, and this has been the primary reason so little progress has been made in three months. I’m not sure if it’s a Kyle thing or most writers have this, but I spend a lot more time making revisions than I do writing something the first time. Around the beginning of October, I finally landed on a draft I think is Good Enough. I’m still making changes when I remember a part that suddenly bothers me or when we’re recording dialogue and something sounds off, but for the most part we’re locked in and moving forward.

- Also in the last update, I mentioned that the recording process would begin that week. That was for recording the vocals on the theme song, which also served as a trial run for our voice acting process that I presumed would follow immediately and of course did not. We’ve since decided to buy a new microphone for the booth, which will not only be used for Box Peek but each of Easy Allies’ future reviews/Game Sleuths/Podcast Producer Thanks/anything Jones records really. Jones did insist on using the old mic for the last three Souls Retrospective episodes for the sake of consistency. He cares about details.

- We've started recording with Amanda and it's a blast. She’s a legitimate voice actor and it shows immediately. One of my favorite things about writing scripts is watching actors find the life in it, my stupid dialogue becoming real, and Amanda just seems to get the tone and humor of Box Peek perfectly. We’ve yet to record any dialogue from the other Easy Allies, and while we'll never be up to Amanda’s level, we’re going to try our hardest!

- I finally bit the bullet and bought a camera. This was not part of Box Peek’s $2,000 budget (which we’re still under!) and is just something I wanted to own for myself, but camera shopping still created some very sweaty palms. I settled on a Sony A7, which is not the newest or nicest but it will serve the purpose for an introductory-level scrub like myself. It looks like I might have to buy an additional 90mm lens for the extreme closeups I want, so all that’s left there is finding the courage to click Buy Now one more time.

- The completed theme song with vocals is sweet. Personally one of the only things I haven’t figured out yet with Box Peek is how to match the fun and intensity of this track with my doofy paper puppets. Experimentation is the fun stuff though, so I won’t panic about this until my first three ideas all turn out bad.

That’s it for now. I obviously haven’t been able to work on Box Peek as much as I’ve wanted, and I know the next few months are going to busy for all of us. I’ll stick with our current process of giving you an update in another 3 months, so expect one on February 1st. While this has always been a No Deadlines, Put It Out When It’s Done project, let’s just say it will be my nightmare if it’s not finished a year after it was funded. Thanks again for your patience.

Love & Respect,
Kyle