Podcast: Never Ending Rant

[dirtyhat]

(I submitted this yesterday but it never showed up. Thought I'd try today, so Sorry if there's another thread)

Show can be found here for now...
www.viddler.com/neverendingrant

Me and a couple of buddies have been wanting to put together a show for a LONG time now (since July of last year). We slowly built up an idea and gathered some gear/knowledge, but kept delaying the actual shooting. I don't know if it was shyness/nervousness but last week I had had enough and said let's just film something!!

The Show
We will call it the Never Ending Rant. When coming up with an idea for a show, I always heard, "do a show about what you are passionate about". Since that is Media i.e. Movies, Music, TV and Podcasts I wanted to incorporate that. But knowing TRS already had that covered for the most part, we decided to do it on the other thing we are passionate about. Drinking and BSing lol.

What to know
This is a VERY VERY rough sketch of the show. The Background will be different, the editing will be different, but the basic concept is there. We were EXTREMELY nervous but like I said I just wanted to shoot and see if people would like it. Now that we have got the first show out of our systems... we are excited, and have been getting some GREAT feedback already!!! and I can't wait to film next week.

Feel free to make any suggestions on anything sound, lighting, background, concept... I am open to it all and would greatly appreciate any feedback. We were thinking of maybe standing at a bar or sitting behind a table... cutting the "review" section shorter like a 5-7 min segment... and obviously being more prepared. we literally sat down and started filming with no idea what we were going to talk about.

Thank you in advance

[tokenuser]

BTW - It did show up. 4 times in fact ... but you obviously didn't the rules for this forum (stickied up the top of the page ... nice and obvious).

Originally Posted by chuckles

Basic Rules For This Forum

1. All new threads are moderated.
...
4. No need to submit something more than once, give it a little time before your thread shows up.

And the thread title was also changed ... as per the posting rules you didn't read.

[dirtyhat]

not exactly the feedback I was looking for but thanks anyways... glad we could get started off on the right foot.

anyways... I accidentally pressed the submit button the first time without actually putting a link to where the show was so I tried to stop it before it sent (which apparently failed). The second time I pressed submit I got a Database error. So I tried a third time which seemed to work. Then I wake up a day later to see no new thread, when I saw plenty of new threads appear elsewhere. (I am on other threads, that are moderated as well, and never waited more than a couple hours for a thread to show. Hence, why I thought my submission Might have slipped through the crack.) So I tried one last time. (and even apologized beforehand just in case)

But since you are a Mod I won't mention that it is arrogant of you to ASSUME I didn't read the nice, stickied rules when I did, many times actually to see if I missed a step in submitting or was doing something wrong. As there was no mention of any specific time frame to wait (which I think 1 day is plenty). And two, that the rules say not to name the thread "Feedback wanted" ... which I didn't (and there is by the way a thread named just that [feedback please], that you didn't feel the need to change) and last... that the rules in the thread you Moderate are "5)constructive criticism". Which I could take as criticism in submitting a new thread, but has nothing to do with a podcast I was looking for help on.

...I don't know what I did too you or what grudge you have with me, but as a moderator, I thought the goal was to help the others. I have no grudge with you and after this post hope we can remain acquantices on this forum (as I often see you on these forums and enjoy most of the feedback you and others give, which is why i felt comfortable asking for help here on something I was very nervous about posting in the first place). Thanks anyways. and now I know to be patient if/when I ever submit a new thread.

[tokenuser]

1. The (4th) thread was approved less than 24 hours after you posted it (the first thread).
2. The other "feedback please" threads were created prior to the addition of the "make the topic meaningful" rule.
3. I bear no grudges. Of the moderated requests added and awaiting approval, yours was approved - after editting the title. Others were not for various reasons.

You will get good feedback in here, but after denying several threads that were created because people don't read the rules - you got the short end of the stick. Sorry about that. As a volunteer, moderating can be frustrating sometimes.

And ... back to reviewing your podcast.

[dirtyhat]

Originally Posted by tokenuser

1. The (4th) thread was approved less than 24 hours after you posted it (the first thread).
2. The other "feedback please" threads were created prior to the addition of the "make the topic meaningful" rule.
3. I bear no grudges. Of the moderated requests added and awaiting approval, yours was approved - after editting the title. Others were not for various reasons.

You will get good feedback in here, but after denying several threads that were created because people don't read the rules - you got the short end of the stick. Sorry about that. As a volunteer, moderating can be frustrating sometimes.

And ... back to reviewing your podcast.

I appreciate that response and offer my apologies if I sounded too harsh as well... and now realize that the rules were updated VERY recently. I respect you even more than before for clarifying that for me. and I guess I was just so nervous about the feedback I jumped the gun on waiting for the original thread to post. I know the frustrations of moderating, hence why I no longer do it, and can respect that you volunteer.

...More on the Topic...

we shot episode #2 tonight!!! tried a couple different things... we are very excited and have been getting some GREAT feedback... Thank you all again!

[danhauk]

Just watched the first episode. Great job on the pilot. Really enjoyed the "rant" section of the show. I, too, hate inconsiderate drivers. I'm usually a pretty chill guy, unless I'm behind the wheel. That's when the profanities fly.

The concept is pretty good, and I'm looking forward to seeing the changes for the second episode. I know it might be difficult depending on your situation, but one priority production-wise would definitely be improving sound. It's not horrible, but can always be improved.

Sometimes being prepared can help. It might be good for the review section just to hammer out what points you want to hit on. But I would probably just wing it with the rant section.

Also, don't worry too much about being nervous. I completely understand, and it definitely gets easier and less unnerving the more you do it. First episode of our show I felt really weird looking into the camera, but it's getting better.

Keep up the great work and I'm looking forward to seeing more!

[dirtyhat]

Originally Posted by danhauk

Keep up the great work and I'm looking forward to seeing more!

First off thank you very much for the feedback, greatly appreciated. I've been so wrapped up getting things organized for the show and in my life that i've only had time to watch about 5 mins of your show. But once everything gets settled down around here I'll def check it out more. I liked what I saw so far.

As for us...
We filmed the second episode last night. We forgot we had some mics laying around so we used those, and editing today, the sound is a lot better. we eventually want to get some lavaliers though.
we were more prepared for the review section this time, but I messed up a little bit and forgot to let my co-host talk about his subjects so we had to re film that after... hopefully Ill be able to fix it in editing. We'll get it down next time. and I still want to cut it even shorter. we went 13 mins I believe and Im thinking 7-9 mins.
Def. hear you about the "winging" of the Rant. I write general subjects down and we should be able to expand off that... might even try picking the subjects out of a hat at random.
We tried a new location, which we LOVE and will probably use from now on, but we weren't prepared for the poor lighting. So the lighting suffered horribly in the second ep.

Thanks for watching and I'll be sure to give you some proper feedback once I have a min to catch up on yours.

[rabidbadger]

Liquid Charisma! great term. Rename your show that. Sheesh!

[rabidbadger]

couple of thoughts, production wise (still watching first one) Did you film it wide, but compress it short? You guys look squished.

Crop the frame. Sit closer and film yourselves from the waste up or closer. No need to see your (perfectly nice but unnecessary) legs.

What is it with "modern" cameras with the built in mike recording the camera internal souns. I filmed my podcast with an ancient vidbeast, and NEVER got that sound. (that goes for messofmusic, too) I think camera makers got cheap with mics once digicams got popular.

[rabidbadger]

Content wise- (still first ep) fun. Skip the movie/music/tv reviews. Just rant your asses off. THAT is why your here. And others *cough*TRS*cough* already got that covered. Maybe in you prep you could build the movie/music/tv faves into the rant, like your buddy could have during the comicrant.