Always keen to improve our production process and add a little more to our content, we thought we’d try recording a quick test video with both of us on-screen via overlaid face cams.
We chose one of Marcus’ side missions, which took us into the Sanctuary Hole and then the Caustic Caverns to retrieve a safe.
The first thing we learned was that the side missions do seem to scale up to match our current level. There were a number of deaths for both of us at the start of this mission as we found our feet battling creatures that were a couple of levels above us.
We eventually found Marcus’ safe, and returned its prized contents to Moxxi, thinking we were protecting her honour. In the end, she decided that she was just going to publish the pictures anyway!
The face cam test was pretty successful, so expect to see us build on this in future videos.
So AD and I were in the pub, which we don’t do as often as you might think, and we were thinking about ways we could make the Grey Ops videos more interesting. For some reason, it occurred to AD that adding a live video of us while gaming might do that.
I would agree, not that we’re particularly easy on the eye but my experience as a viewer has been better when there is a person to relate to.
We did this video that night, left the pub car park, went our own ways and recorded this test. The gameplay isn’t brilliant and I got a bit grumpy I recall, but having a face beneath each video helps. I think.
Of course, things got a little out of hand in the following weeks, evolving from us windowed below the video to chroma key overlaid. You’ll have to tune into the next few blogs to hear about the pop-up greenscreen mayhem that ensued.
I hope you do.