Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Collaboration with a stranger (Side project)

I found someone on a online chat sever called Dark Eyes and he was interested in starting his own parody series which he would edit different cartoons together and than voice over them to give it a story. I offered my help if there was any small things I could help with and he accepted.

It starred off with me reformat his scripts from unreadable to usable as I learned how to write scripts in college so it wasn't too difficult.

After that he needed to find someone to voice the kid dragon character so I offered to voice because he was not looking for a profession and I had the equipment which was a Olympus digital voice recorder.    
That character had a lot of lines!                
after I sent him my lines he edited the video together and he sent it to me to add any random things I could think of, I asked if he had anything in mind but he did not know what I was capable of so it would of been hard to suggest anything.

For one of them I ended up blur out a part of one of the characters for all of the video and I added random images into a blank book.



For the other I removed small objects such as the leg of tables and hid images in the background.

We worked on three videos in to course of two months but he turned to be very unreliable the more I worked with him.

In the second video everything was fine up until I sent him the final edited video and all he had to do was to upload it, but instead of uploading the one I sent him he uploaded the non edited one and said that I should of "Named" the project file something other than the name he sent me, he than didn't take it down so all my work was for nothing.
After that we Worked on one last video which he needed me to voice two characters and to edit one of hes to sound like a robot. After I recorded all my lines and learned how to make a voice sound like a robot in adobe Audion (which I had to like how to use adobe Audion first) he than told me that he was going to sent me his lines "tomorrow". I never got the lines and again wasted my time. I talked to him a month later and he said "oh yea I have been gaming a lot lately".
Although things did not work out in the end I have learned how to treat people who are not interested in what there doing, I also learned a few tricks here and there on how to do thing quicker so I was glad of the opportunity.