I started the blog on vyou.com at the beginning of this week, sorting out the waiting video and response video.
I wanted to keep the waiting video rather vague, so as not to spoil what I would appear as in the video when I showed up in costume. So I appeared with the wig on and make-up, but avoid showing the costume until the last few frames. I tried to make the ‘waiting video’ as in-character as possible. Due to the fact there is no sound that went with this video, I had to try and work out a way to make it still work as an in-character type of action.
I decided to play on the idea that Samuel has just found the recording equipment, and is having a bit of a play with it. He looks at it from top to the side, examining it carefully (also only showing the wig and make-up, so it does not necessarily look like I am wearing a costume) before appearing on screen in the full costume. He does not acknowledge the costume, after all, it is his normal clothes, and instead looks at the camera, then aside, and grins – perhaps he is not meant to be playing with the equipment after all.
He then tugs on his collar a bit, and looks himself up and down in the camera. Clearly, Samuel Daniel is very vain and likes to make a lot of his appearance. Finally, after he’s happy with how he looks, he scoots away from the waiting video out of shot.
I would hope that the waiting video gives enough ideas to those who would be watching and possibly asking questions. In that it shows I am in character, and also in costume, in the way I behave when I am fully on the screen, grinning, and being very concerned with my image. While similarly leaving enough blank and unexplained so that people might ask more questions.
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