It's even hard to get people to watch a trailer. There's a billion videos online, and just hoping people blunder into yours isn't the best method...that said, I don't know what is.

@@Corn_Pone_Flicks I wish I had something useful to say. You're already doing one thing people do to boost their stuff - making videos on a popular topic (Twin Peaks) to bring them to your channel. It baffles me that your TP videos don't get even more views - they're easily among the most well thought-out I've seen, and with some really well-produced segments where you emulate the show. The only thing I can think of to suggest is to make even more Lynch content to build on what you have, and hope more people come to your channel and check out stuff beyond what drew them here.

I'm quite content, even baffled, at the amount of times my Peaks videos have been seen...what's frustrating is how little everything else is seen. Every time I upload something that's NOT Twin Peaks-related, a number of people unsubscribe, as if they thought I was only going to talk about one subject forever, when I said quite clearly I was finished with the Twin Peaks analysis series over a year ago. I certainly didn't make the Peaks videos assuming they'd draw people in...in fact, I very much was anticipating the reverse. I don't know what happened there, but it's not repeating itself with any other topic.

@@Corn_Pone_Flicks What happened is that you made good videos on a topic that was popular at the time, but for which there wasn't as much analysis available as there is for, say, the Star Wars movies. You've got a LOT of competition there.

Not much I can do about that. I like to talk about lots of different things, and make videos based on whatever is interesting to me at the moment. This is a hobby, and I don't intend to treat it like it's a job. I've already got one of those. What's annoying is that it's as if Peaks fans like that show and nothing else.

In terms of committing to it, the fact is that I've been making films in one way or another since I was twelve. It's been with me forever. What I don't ever want to commit to is a schedule. As Douglas Adams once remarked, "I love deadlines...I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."

It's hard, yes, but not in the ways I expected. It's easier, I expect, if you aren't trying to do it during a plague. There's also a million special effects in here that shouldn't have been, mostly because of things like "Hey, who's that asshole reflected in the glass over there? It's me, goddamitt!" When you've got a huge deadline bearing down, it's so easy to miss little things like a lens cap sitting in plain view you then have to remove in post.

Comedy is the most obvious approach for short films, but in terms of films I personally like, well, my comedy section is a comparatively small part of my DVD shelves. At the same time, there's still some humor here and there in the film that I think fits into what I'm doing. Have you seen Poltergeist recently? There's parts of that film that are funny as hell.

Thanks. I do hope I can get this to ultimately go a bit further than just KZfaq, not least because the picture quality, even at the 4K setting, looks shitty compared to how it looked before uploading.

It's basically done, though I decided to rework the opening scene recently. The resolution may be higher than Inland Empire, but Lynch's lighting is better. Not sure what the size of the channel has to do with anything, though...anyone with a camera can make a film these days...it just takes the will to do it.

@@Corn_Pone_Flicks yes of course i just love what you are doing the effort you put into your content is near unmatched

I know...I have no idea what's up with that. The original video isn't even in 4k to begin with, but if I didn't upload a 4k export, it really looked like tiles sliding around. This seems to be a new problem-my past videos haven't looked like this in regular HD.

I'll pass that on to my wife (aka "the crew"). Computer is pitching a fit right now, so who knows what kind of delay that might cause.

Me, too. I hope to have at least a rough cut of the whole thing done inside the month. We've got a small handful of shots remaining, and about three-fourths of it is scored at present. We're in the home stretch.

I will, but I have to finish it first.

Yeah, I know...annoying, isn't it?

Probably, but I doubt anything changes after that. Does KZfaq quit hiding your videos past that point, or something similarly useful?

@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Not that I know of. 10K is just a nicer number to look at than 9.99K, you know?

Me too. Hoping things work out.

I take that as a huge compliment...I love that film.

Suspiria is incredible. Absolutely brutal.

Are we talking the original, or the new one?

@@Corn_Pone_Flicks a couple months too late, but I was talking about the original!

@@guybrushmonkey97 Oh, I figured you were...I was addressing that comment to the poster above me. I like both films, but I just love the original's insane color scheme.

Working on it right this second.

Sorry for how it looks like 1980s Atari graphics at lower res...KZfaq compression issues haven't been this bad for years. Glad you liked it anyway.

I certainly hope so, but for now, the plans are simply "finish it." After that, we'll figure out what to do with it.

Thanks...there's a lot of color grading done, largely because the house we used has the most cheerful paint job on earth, and I had to do something to try and spookify it up.

Unknown at present. We're still shooting it, and are taking a break right now due to Covid. We had to shoot what we've got at an accelerated pace when our lead actress got a sweet job offer out of state, but now that that deadline's no longer looming, we should go back to being a bit safer. I'd like to get it distributed via streaming if possible, but we'll deal with that later.

@@Corn_Pone_Flicks making a micro budget film is such a fucking roller coaster man, on ever level. Hold tight, stay strong and best of luck with it! Are you going to make a some kind of a 'making of' as well? Would be cool

I was considering doing that...I question how much interest there would be. Any video I make that isn't Twin Peaks-related gets a tenth the views of those, and I suspect anything I do that's not about someone else's film at all will be cut by another tenth.

Here's hoping. It's been hard getting eyes on this, even compared to my other videos. Maybe if I'd put Jason Vorhees in it, it would attract more attention.

​@@Corn_Pone_Flicks I certainly would like to help you out. Not sure, if I can with about 100 subs from people, who are most likely there because of the Star Trek clips. If you have an idea, let me know.

The best thing anyone can do is just share the video. I don't really have a social media presence, so I'm limited to what other people choose to do with it.

Not as yet. Due to Covid, we took a long stretch off and are only now getting back to principal photography, though post-production on what we have shot (probably nearly 95% of the total film) has continued unabated. We're not yet even sure HOW it will be released. I'd love to get it on streaming, such as Netflix, but we'll see about that when we have a finished product.

@@Corn_Pone_Flicks well I eagerly away the Corn Pone Flicks review of the Corn Pone Flicks film!

Definitely not. He'd have wanted to be paid.

We've only got a handful of shots left to shoot, and a rough cut of basically the whole thing exists at present. Now it's into the audio and fine-tuning stage.

Much more straightforward than that, though what isn't?