Monday, June 25, 2012

Director's Cut

The decision has been made that Episodes 2, 3 and 4 (which are all currently over thirty minutes) will be edited down to 25 to 30 minutes. The longer versions will continue to be on YouTube but they will be marked as "Director's Cut" versions with the new standard, shorter episodes being the ones we link to from the website.

These shorter versions will be similar to what was shown at the premiere with some notable exceptions:

1. Captions won't be embedded (viewers will still be able to turn them on or off).
2. The music will be re-edited so it flows more naturally.
3. The choppy cuts that created the caption errors will be eliminated.
4. The dance sequence in Episode 4 will be slowed down so the music won't distort.

These changes are in preparation of the final Season 1 fundraising effort (which will launch through KickStarter with a beautiful Season 1 trailer) and to show the world that -- even when it means extra work and even longer unpaid hours, the team at "Ghost Sniffers" is dedicated to providing the very best episodes.

We've been asked if we'll be re-shooting Episode 1 (which was shot before we had a professional mic or light trees), but we'd like to leave Episode 1 as our pilot to show how very far we've come :) The pilot episode of a show is often more rough than regular episodes and we're very proud of what we were able to do with so very little.