As it seems I am somewhat drawing to the close on the marketing for Episode One —the ebook is currently being processed by KDP— I thought I’d go back over all the hard work it has taken to broadcast the book’s existence. I’m sure this will likely only interest myself, but it feels like something I should do.
For some kind of closure.
It isn’t all finished, however, I still need to track down the paperback, of course.
This is the first video short I ever shot, back when I realised I was going to have to do the dreaded ‘Marketing’. I believe I recorded it over a year ago now. How time flies when you’re burning the candle in more dimensions than you can shake a theoretical physicist at —or something like that.
The idea for how the videos ‘were going to be’ was already set in stone, such is my thinking. Which is why the quality of this short is terrible. Hopefully it is the right balance between seemingly done on purpose, and by accident.
The point is that I’m learning.
I’ve always been learning.
Especially when writing TEOWAD.
So the marketing had to follow suit.
I obviously got a lot more adventurous with my filming. Well… it doesn’t take much to get more exciting than filming on your coffee table. But this video will always hold a special place in my heart, when I realised I could film my own things, I could re-awaken my long lost editing skills, and I possibly could get people to notice all my hard work.
Explanation
I’m never certain if I’m being overly overt or subterraneanly subtle, I guess it does depend on the audience. But I feel that for each of these videos I should perhaps explain some of the overthought elements.
Some are more obvious than others.
So here goes.
Clearly I’m playing on words here counter to the images (Not that I often do that).
Conflict, Perspective and Edges.
Even the comment about it being ‘harder than it looks’ came from me dropping one on my foot.
The constant attempts to get what I wanted, whilst ignoring the continuous errors and mistakes is an analogy for something…
You can make of what you will about me dropping the camera at the end, rather than the book.
I also tend to believe days always feel long, even if you’re on a planet half the size of earth with an increased spin rate.
And you have to have been concentrating pretty hard to avoid my constant references to ‘The End’ and ‘One’. My apologies, in advance, for the reinforcement… but I have always been fascinated by the fact that nearly everything is ‘a middle’.
So, yes, it’s bad, but it is mostly bad on purpose. And yet, hopefully it gives a feel for how the story itself might be….
