{"id":31533,"date":"2016-04-12T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T17:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31533"},"modified":"2016-04-12T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T17:15:54","slug":"good-robot-the-lost-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31533","title":{"rendered":"Good Robot: The Lost Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So sometimes ideas don&#8217;t pan out. This is one of those cases:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DfUYEbIoAQg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DfUYEbIoAQg'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Looking at the feedback on YouTube, I can see there&#8217;s a divide between, &#8220;This joke totally made sense to me&#8221; and &#8220;This was awkward and dumb&#8221;. Maybe that would be tolerable for an early teaser, but when it comes to a launch trailer you want clarity and a wide appeal.<\/p>\n<p>A common complaint was that the stock footage of robots conflicted with the in-game footage. That&#8217;s true, although I don&#8217;t know how that could be fixed. For the first half of the trailer you need slow-paced shots. There&#8217;s only so many slow pans you can do over the Good Robot, and there&#8217;s no way you can fill 40 seconds with that. The game doesn&#8217;t have a supporting cast or dialog scenes, which is what you&#8217;d use for the slow build in the first half of the trailer. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe that should have clued me in that this idea was flawed and unworkable, but&#8230; I dunno. I&#8217;ve had a lot of projects that began with a single fun idea and were fuzzy on the details. <a href=\"?p=612\">DM of the Rings<\/a> is a good example of something that began half-formed and then came together later during production. Sometimes when you&#8217;ve got an idea you have to run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So sometimes ideas don&#8217;t pan out. This is one of those cases: Link (YouTube) Looking at the feedback on YouTube, I can see there&#8217;s a divide between, &#8220;This joke totally made sense to me&#8221; and &#8220;This was awkward and dumb&#8221;. Maybe that would be tolerable for an early teaser, but when it comes to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[498],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-31533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-robot","tag-good-robot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}