Hey, guys. It's Ponch. I promised you guys an entry giving a more detailed explanation regarding the Video Podcast that might be coming soon... and here it is.
My brother is an avid writer, focusing primarily on Hip Hop news, writing on
24HourHipHop.com and working the associated label, Poe Boy. The thing is that he likes to have his hands in all sorts of different flavored pies and always ends up dragging me along some way somehow. (Most of them usually end up in failure.)
Anyway, my cousin was cooking up a media website called
InfamousPlay.com with some of his close friends and he brought my brother along because of his knowledge of Hip Hop and the fact that he's a writer. At that point, I was writing headline news over at a movie website called
InfamousKidd.com (under
Pumpkin Escobar), and therefore I was asked to come in as another writer, but for movies.
InfamousKidd.com went down, with the owner moving over to
AICN, therefore leaving me to start a new project... Dropping Loads, of course. That freed me up for my cousin to draft me as an occasional writer (under the pseudonym ScrewdriveR). With that in place,
InfamousPlay.com wasn't intended to be just news, the intention there was to provide original media, meaning episodic talk shows focusing on various media ranging from music, movies, games, wrestling, etc. (Look up the banner on the website yourself).
With the site opening up shop a few weeks following the release of Episode 0, they started garnering a fair amount of visitors daily. With the site open, they figured they should get those shows up and running as quick as possible. Cue my brother's bright idea to film the Dropping Loads recording sessions as another potential show. I didn't mind the idea, because as long as we garnered more listeners to the pod, who am I to decline? Of course, I had to get the approval of the Dropping Loads boys prior to going through with it. For the most part, everyone didn't really have a problem with it because the more exposure, the better.
There were talks here and there regarding the video podcast for a long time, but it never happened until about two weeks ago, at the recording of Episode 5, where it was a fucking disaster because our camera man (who you hear on the pod) didn't know what the fuck he wanted. Most of the footage should be getting scrapped in favor of a 1-2 minute trailer and we'll be reshooting, hopefully by the next time the boys get back together to record.
Anyway, that's all the background information on that. As for the details of the show, we pretty much won't have any say what makes it in to the video podcast because we don't know how to edit video that well (Hell, we barely can edit the audio) and plus, it's not technically our project. What I do know is that each recording session should be recorded in its entirety, which runs about an hour and half to two hours, but the footage will be edited down to 10-15 minutes of the best parts of the recording sessions. And no, it won't be one stationary camera focusing on people just talking. Right now, the idea is that we should be using 2 cameras capturing different angles. With that in mind, we will be acknowledging the camera and playing to an audience that can actually see us.
Hopefully, that answers all the burning questions that I'm sure you've had since getting your mind sufficiently blown by our announcement on the pod. If you want to know anything else, drop us a line at
Facebook,
Twitter, e-mail:
DroppingLoadsPodcast@gmail.com, or just comment. Yeah, we've got all that shit covered.
