good news: i found a way to download cpuk vods from youtube and have started on an edit of #14. bad news: i just lost 6 hours of my life to it without even realizing and i’ve only carved off 40-ish minutes of a 5 hour VOD

but it is happening!! Maybe i’ll finish it idk. I’m gonna try and SUPER cut down the first round matchups, highlights-style, to get them to not be half of the runtime of the VOD, and focus on plot development and late-competition matchups. I’m not sure how much that will mess with the overall experience to make cuts in the middle of the rounds, but tbh im not an ssbu fan so most of the gameplay goes over my head anyway and there’s always the actual vods for the full matches.

on a higher-concept level, i’d like to try and make a full video for an intro segment to go over the Rhythm Heaven intro with the basic gist of CPUK, the different teams, and maaaaybe some plot recap stuff. Also explaining that Jenny is Jenny now. I just don’t want to cut out the mashup intros bc i feel like thats a really important part of the experience, and if i actually FULLY changed the visuals to something CPUK themed (like, if i reanimated the whole thing, which I cant and also shouldnt do lol), i feel like it’d be cool. Or maybe I’ll just start with a cold open ‘hook’ like a lot of twitch stream edits do.

and id also like to come up with (and idk what software i could use for this, maybe canva or something) some kind of bracket motion-graphic showing the whole bracket and the progression of characters through it. I’d like it to have motion graphics, for what i’m imagining, so it can show characters dropping down into losers vs being eliminated, because then I can cut out Jenny’s explanation of the bracket system and save more time.

later in the series i’d love to make some graphics for the cutscenes, either just sketches of the characters in their environments, animatic-style, or something more visual-novel style with sprites of the characters’ fan-designs that could be re-used over different episodes, so that I only have to roughly paint the environments & add some lighting overlays to each scene. But I’m SUPER getting ahead of myself here.

there's just something about incorporating the audience into a perspective character in a live work, that the author then interprets and interacts with on the fly to make something coherent

like, there's non-audience-interactive works where audience involvement mostly ranges from none ("you experience it and that's it") to various forms of allowed vandalism and live heckling, and there's full-audience-interactive works where the artist basically leaves the audience to it and only gets involved to avert disaster (like twitch plays pokemon)

and then there's this, fitting into neither category, inviting the chaos and weaving it into something workable, trusting and relying on the audience to engage constructively in return for added involvement and i guess… seeing the sculpture in the stone?