A comprehensive, vlog style, behind-the-scenes look at the making of Monkey Master; everything from the writing, to the filming, to the editing, to the uploading. Includes never-before-seen footage from the aborted Tales From the Blue Hat (Project 50) idea, bloopers, deleted scenes, troubles with editing, premiering the video, and me offering my thought processes…and a lot of them, at that.
Look, I know this video is very long. And spoiler alert, it is primarily me yapping about the creation of this project. The reason why I felt the need to make this video (outside of my personal tradition of making a BTS companion piece) is to show people my personal process of making something like this…to inspire people like me and let them know that they have the ability to create. That being said, I know that even then, this video is not for everyone. But, if a particular part of the process interests you, I have timestamps for each part talking about what goes on.
0:00 Opening (7/22/22 - 5/20/23)
The start (and end) of the making of Tales From the Blue Hat and the initial idea for Monkey Master.
6:55 Part One - Just Like Starting Over (6/2/22 - 6/24/23)
Planning and starting Monkey Master itself. Fallout of Tales From the Blue Hat, state of the channel, writing, setting up shots/filming/gameplay, starting to film, outtakes from Mike’s SMB expert run.
40:06 Part Two - Monkey Man (7/4/23 - 7/20/23)
Filming the majority of Monkey Master. Finishing the process of filming the gameplay, gameplay highlights, outtakes, deleted scenes, thoughts on progress, filming the Lost Levels, beating Monkey Ball, starting the edit.
1:29:32 Part Three - Fooling Yourself (8/3/23 - 10/1/23)
The crisis phase of Monkey Master. Struggling with the edit, starting school, filming small shots for montages, outtakes from interviews with Hunter and Jacob.
1:48:02 Part Four - Bring It On Home (10/3/23 - 10/22/23)
Wrapping up the entirety of filming for Monkey Master. Recording the destructive outro, playing the Party Games with Hunter, taking the poster pictures, rekindling inspiration for the edit, finishing the filming, creating the teaser trailer.
2:38:55 Part Five - In the Editing Room (10/29/23 - 2/20/24)
The most boring part; editing Monkey Master. Commentary on various stages of editing, creating goals, making the logo/poster, exporting edits, playing the Party Games with Jacob, thoughts on Banana Mania, adjusting audio, ordering the poster.
3:26:41 Part Six - The Song is Over (3/3/24 - 3/5/24)
Showing Monkey Master to an audience. The premiere party with Mike, Abby, Steve, and other friends, fine-tuning the final edit, exporting and completing Monkey Master.
3:58:00 Part Seven - Tomorrow Never Knows (3/8/24 - 3/26/24)
Uploading Monkey Master to KZfaq and other random post-video things. Creating the title/thumbnail, organizing and scheduling uploads, writing tags, advertising, prepping the DVDs, starting the merch store, finalizing Monkey Master and its extra videos.
4:25:54 Closing (3/26/24)
Brief closing thoughts on the journey of making Monkey Master. General thoughts, expectations for the video, talking about my much needed break from content creation, and making mention of the possible future for the channel moving forward.
I guess what I’m trying to say is don’t try to watch this all in one sitting. Hell, don’t watch all of it in multiple sittings if it doesn’t interest you. Just please don’t bitch about the length of this video. I’m not asking you to watch it if you don’t want to. Okay? Okay.
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