We now have a start date.
I've written in here a couple of times the past month or two about how I'm working on another series of those "Pieces of the Past" videos I make for the Marquette Regional History Center. I haven't said too much about them, as we really didn't know when they were going to start to drop, but I can now safely say that the wait is almost over...
Because you'll be able to see the first one four weeks from today, on Wednesday, November 5th.
The reason we didn't have a firm start date was because I wanted to get as many of them done before the debut, if only so I wouldn't have to be rushing to get them all finished on a deadline. And seeing as how I should have nine or 10 of the 11 (or 12) for this batch done by the time the first one drops, things are working out just the way I'd hoped.
And seeing as how that doesn't happen very often, I'm taking the win.
I think I had previously mentioned that the first one is an epic, and it is. It's a 17-minute long version of the "...And Put Up a Parking Lot" tour I give, and that I think the video turned out amazingly well. Then, every Wednesday through the end of January (with the exception of Christmas Eve), a new one will roll out on such varied topics as fires, schools, nurses, railroads, and everyone's favorite dance club of the 70s and 80s.
One guess as to what that is.
Every year when I do another batch of these they get longer and a little more technically complex, and that's certainly the case with this batch. Aside from the opening epic they're all averaging around 4 minutes, filled with all kinds of digital effects and special footage shot just for them. When you compare them to the original batch, which were about 90 seconds long and put together by me during Covid, you can definitely sure see the difference.
And that's why we're hoping this "season" is the best of all.
I had mentioned there were 11 (or 12) of them. We're still not sure about the 12th. The final one of this batch was supposed to be another epic, timing out at (our rough guess) about a half an hour or so, but it's starting to grow into a beast of its own making. As I write this I have no idea in what form it'll end up, or if it will even end up being a "Pieces of the Past".
That's one of the things when you do a project like this. Sometimes, a piece (or, in this case, a "Piece") takes on a life of its own.
So...that's the scoop on one of the many projects I've been tackling recently. I'm really excited to start sharing these with everyone and, with any luck, you'll think they're kinda cool.
Because I know I think they are.
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