I know it’s only been a few episodes, but how are you finding the production/ editing of D20 Junior Year?
I feel like they dialed back a bit from the majorly distracting edits of NA and BE, but maybe thats just because of genre differences rather than stepping away from a miss.
I'm finding it fine - they've always done those sweeping shots of the maps and minis, and I don't mind the more elaborate stuff they've been doing with projections on the dome (BE's shadow puppet sequences were in my opinion really lovely) - my fight is much more with the glitchy camera and some of the echo-ey sound design choices. I agree it's otherwise felt dialed back; it might be the genre and the fact that they already have a simpler visual style established for this setting, but for what it's worth, Dungeons and Drag Queens, The Ravening War, and Mentopolis, all strong D20 entries from last year, also didn't have these weird editing choices so I think it might have just been those two series.
I am about to watch the first hour episode 1 of KOllOK (not 1991; I did watch the summary video for new viewers) so I'll have more opinions shortly but more generally I do understand wanting to develop an interesting and distinct visual style but I think that's done best without a lot of camera work. CR's stuff with the scrim on the main set and with the spotlights on the Candela set, or BE's shadow puppet mythology sequences and having the map of Elmville on the dome in Fantasy High are both really great choices. Like, I'm not arguing that you have to go back to the early C1 set nor the monochrome 3 am in a warehouse dome options either; I just think that a lot of digital filters or montages or double-exposures look cheesy as hell.
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