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Intro

Moving on to another point where I think change is a necessity: The intro. I wanted a memorable intro which editing fitted the pace of the music. This meant that the “natural” cut-off and fade would be placed at the 15-second-mark. I thought it could work, especially with the “skip intro”-button, but, I have known for quite some time now that it is simply too long of an intro. Besides, nobody cares about who’s starring in the video, and it’s not really relevant when it’s only me xD

The one thing that I really like about my intro, though, is the “rolling-logo”-transition from intro to video (and again to outro) :D It’s just quick, fun and doesn’t take too long to create, so I think it’ll stay :3

Intro music is the theme from the Danish television show "Huset på Christianshavn" ("The House on Christianshavn") from the 1970's. It was composed by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre who created a lot of Danish television and movie themes :D

(image from http://streaming.dk)

Outro

I think that I’ve hit a sweet spot with the outro I’ve created: It’s clean, simple and quick to attach important links to with the soothing Hearthstone-music, “Two Rogues, One Mark” :) However, I did make a quite huge mistake, which was a convenience for you, the viewer, but quite the problem for me D:

You probably wouldn’t believe it, but the problem was the small “Next video”-text. I didn’t think of it at first, but now that I’ve realised what the problem is, I can’t believe that I missed it :o In order to show footage of the next video, to give a more saying button, I actually needed footage from the next video xD If I didn’t, I’m wouldn’t able to produce the video (duh) and I would have to wait until I recorded some more >.<

This, of course, is no good for consistency, if I happen to stumble on a period of time where I simply would not have the time to record new material :c Luckily, the fix was simply, and already in use in [Hearthstone] Naxxramas, the Class Challenges #4” - I just changed the word “Next” to “Previous” and linked the annotation accordingly :P

The fix for the outro was quite simple: Just link to the previous video xD

Length of videos

A feature where I don’t think I made a lot of mistakes is the length of the videos :> Having watched a lot of youtube-videos from TotalBiscuit and The Yogscast, producing videos with a mean of 20 minutes seem quite reasonable :P

However, this doesn’t mean that I can’t change things for the better ^^ It may make sense to create longer videos, if it fits the content shown. An example of this is the ~1 hour long Hearthstone-video format that TotalBiscuit (yes, I’m looking to him a lot :3 ) is using which seems to work well =) I will try out something similar with my upcoming videos of Hearthstone’s “Blackrock Mountains”-Adventure. I’m thinking that each wing will get a single video, instead of two as it was the case with Naxxramas :P

My longest video so far is the Warrior/Priest Class Challenge... My god, did that Warrior one suck :C