ORIGINAL INTRO & DAILY PROGRESS
Stay tuned and bookmark this post for more news and eventually, the next Journey Through Twin Peaks video chapter.
Consider this post both an announcement and a placeholder for the next, long-delayed "missing chapter" of my Twin Peaks video series - about the collaborators on the original series, it's provisionally titled "A Candle in Every Window" (playing on my memory of a quote from the Mark Frost introduction to the re-published Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, the I can't find the actual passage at present). I will update this post with my progress as I go (which I will also be keeping track of on Twitter) and I will cross-post the video here when I'm done.
Though I'm hesitant to proclaim deadlines given how often they get postponed, in this case I can make a commitment as well. All of my available "online project" free time will be devoted to this video from now on - I won't even tackle my monthly patron commitments until the video is uploaded on YouTube (another incentive to get it done by the last week of September if not sooner). [revision 9/18: unfortunately, I quickly discovered that I need to finish a Mark Frost book, thanks to a hard library due date, and complete one more public podcast which I overlooked, but after THAT, no distractions!] Updates begin, hopefully, as soon as tonight...
UPDATES ON THE PROGRESS OF CHAPTER 34:
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September 18: re-wrote the narration after losing the file I recorded in July (this version is shorter, although still too long, and will require less cutting as I tighten the chapter during editing)
September 21: re-recorded the narration, catching up to where I was mid-summer
September 23: although not directly related to this video, I published a tie-in public podcast on films by Twin Peaks episode directors (listen to it here) - this was also the last obstacle in my path to focusing entirely on chapter 34 during my "online work" time
September 26: finally began editing the video - I will now use this post to track, day-by-day, how far this process has progressed so stay tuned and keep checking in
September 27: narration is cut down (some material may be saved for an eventual standalone video) and I've begun choosing clips for the introduction
September 28: continued choosing clips for the introduction - a montage of house/lights footage from different films by episode directors
September 29: finished intro montage and began designing "editors" mosaic sequence (displaying a clip from every original series episode on the same screen)
September 30: continued designing "editors" mosaic sequence (chose clips for each episode and began creating titles/freeze-frames etc
October 1: completed the "editors" mosaic sequence; here is a screenshot:
October 2: created opening of "directors" sequence with clips of directors' credits and juxtapositions with their Mad Men episodes
October 3: continued "directors" sequence with Mad Men episodes and some of their feature films
October 4: finished "directors" sequence including side-by-side montage of episodes and feature films (this was by far my longest day)
October 5: created quick "production designer/cinematographers/composer" sequence and began "writers" sequence - now all that remains is the Harley Peyton/Robert Engels part, which is about half the chapter but much less visually complex than other sequences, and I'll have all day today to work on it
October 6: created the majority of the Harley Peyton/Robert Engels writers sequence (although I spent too much time trying to figure out what clips had been used in past chapters through a more in-the-weeds approach than necessary) and I stopped working at the point where I would cross-reference other Engels work; also, worth noting there will be one coda after Engels is finished, addressing Frost in a way that transitions into the following chapter
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