Don't Shoot for the Moon and Miss

[Music] hyoma and I'm Tom and this is the part are you gay No so citation needed our season seven has just finished and on some of these episodes we got some complaints about some grain and glitchiness in the video and I want to talk about why because even folks who don't watch citation needed this or interesting stuff behind it so this was Series seven and the one before that were six the two of those series are filmed across three different days in youtube's studios in london and each day we did a morning and an afternoon session each had two episodes in it so across three days we ended up with twelve all of which were successful I'm really happy to say occasionally in previous seasons we've just ditched in episode because it didn't work which is why some of them are sick some of them are five some you know seven when we're particularly perky and feel like doing another but in this time we filmed twelve episodes and twelve episodes worked narrative which was great the way I added them is they had divided them into two blocks of six which was just easier frankly than trying to work out an episode all of the whole thing and there was a reason the reason that I'm not in both series is the one day that I wasn't able to attend last minute was had two sessions on it and it was the middle day which meant it was in between the teeth so yeah so we'll ended up in the first series manna Parker in the last but it didn't make sense to put those the top or tail like I showed so um and to explain for those who haven't watched it previously we filmed this in a kitchen it's the follow-on series from what was effectively our student radio show through the four of us so we have just continued that over the years because people seem to keep enjoying it now season 7 the the episodes that were not filmed on that second day when Matt couldn't make it so all the episodes one two five and six which have the glitches hey it says one two five and six were the ones with the the noise and grain now can we talk about quality control here now because I have fairly exacting quality control on stuff like that and both of us spent a long while looking at the video and the audio from those episodes and we thought they were okay like it's a couple of couple issues like one of the cameras is like just the tiniest amount of focus that no one noticed in the equipment on the day but like fine by me there was no point at which I thought man the shot looks a bit bad yeah and normally we're really on top of this kind of stuff because when we're doing stuff together we go out the two of us I I will hold the cameras he will double-check it or he holds the camera and I'll double-check it with citation needs in the kitchens in the past we'll go around all of the things double-check it do test recordings test recordings of the audio yeah if something screwed up both of us have screwed up yeah on the way and we're happy to accept that and we can deal with it and go around because it happens but in this case the cameras would not our job to check no this is not just me passing the buck here I mean it kind of dates but ultimately it still falls to me to make that thing this is this is the first time that we've done a big thing and haven't done everything ourselves because managing our energy levels while also managing an audience in front of us with a booking and then more cameras proper cameras we can't physically be in front of all of those cameras or behind all the audio and in this case I think the ISO setting was wrong on a camera because it was well lit that set yeah so I think that somehow the camera allowed less light in and thus try to compensate by raising the game which means the dark areas in the image by the time they've gone through grading everything like that get a low noise and draining them which looked fine before it went uploaded through YouTube but wait before it was uploaded to YouTube processing it's one other thing you can you can see it's there but it it's it's still on the ok side of yep that our quality threshold yeah same reason for the the window behind Chris which no one noticed on set on the day had a visual dot illusion in certain shots because it doesn't on person and when you're checking a monitor on the camera it's only yeah and the people we had checking the cameras ever everyone does camera stuff has different standards but yeah it's there for everyone and different expectations of what's gonna be there and they don't know what we're aiming for and we haven't explained because we didn't know cuz we've always had this I've always on this motto that you don't shoot for the moon and miss the reason that citation needed was never a a traditional panel show with traditional panel show grammar before season six and seven is we knew we couldn't do it so we've gone from if if we do it in the kitchen where it knowingly looks bad and sounds like her in the kitchen then it doesn't look like we're trying to be a proper panel show and failing it does not sound like we're in the kitchen because you do a bloody good job on the audio every time but it still sounds echo it doesn't sound like thorns of the tevia but with supporting you to space season six was I think successfully pulled off with the robocam with the camera shots with everything season sick just looked spectacular and nailed it at season seven because it was on one day of recording one two five six all have that camera from which I wish I had spotted and I'm still happy with the content oh yeah I'm so happy with how it looks yet honest I'm glad it's just that little knot below what we like to normally be really really frustrating I get really it genuinely brings me down I'm putting obvious o61 there's a rendering glitch or something yeah there's just a white bar that appears a couple times now I spent a long time make sure we both look through that entire episode like three or four times between us while checking it sometimes in everything I did see it I just didn't see it don't shoot for the moon and miss and if you're getting people to help you do a thing it helps to specify exactly what you'd like for them to do because if there are specific things that you don't you'd rather not happen when you're rather would happen happen checklist you can yeah you can't you can't double-check everything but you can write down what you would check it's the same if you to hire any any trades person not just toward your visual white building or gardening or yeah so season eight which will happen not your banks I've still got the stuff from August to edit with the experimental stuff oh yeah it's gonna be experimental stuff back in the kitchen yes we went back to the kitchen this summer with Chris and Gary as well and tried some new idea something worked all gonna get chucked at some point because frankly make his life we're not doing it to be funny we're doing it the whole thing came with citation needed and the reverse trivia stuff which was doing it in the pub we like making each other laugh anyway it gets the gang back together and it's it's something for us to do we have loads of fun doing it and if we're laughing that much it then surely other people are so I've seen the numbers people are and it's it's wonderful and thank you so so much so I am NOT particularly bitter about the minor technical screw-ups I am annoyed at myself but looking at the comments it hasn't actually changed so yeah I think got over it because the audio was good so credit okay I will accept some credit thank you the audio is good for those of you that have watched it and commented there were a few comments saying I would like to be in the audience for this then there is a very high chance we will do another recording of that in 2018 I'll put a link up yeah just that if you were one of the ones that commented I'd like to see more from the kitchen thank you you're going to get more from the kitchen but it's not going to be more of that we'll see well see how you go with that we haven't even watched it back or listen to we haven't touched it since we recorded it so I I didn't want to do a review of the year or anything like that I'm here but I do want to flag up something about 2018 which is I do want to go back to doing some more experimental stuff I do want to go back to doing some gaming stuff we the whole game show series yeah we neither visited any of that in 2017 no it didn't so it's time to bring some of that back that game series was called game on there's a link to the playlist below that will not be returning in that form that had its chance it was okay I'm proud of it but I want to change a lot if I was doing it again so we're just gonna change everything um expect some live stuff I expect some game stuff expect me at some point to just like at this point every video has been getting odd of likes which is great every videos been getting a few dislikes which is great we haven't really turned the tables there every no change something I don't worry I'm not gonna start doing a podcast I really need a hat

Channel: Matt and Tom

Views: 131,817

Rating: 4.973001 out of 5

Keywords: matt gray, mattg, mattgray, unnamedculprit, tom scott, tomscott, tomscottgo, matt and tom, park bench, citation needed, snow, grain, iso settings, cameras, technical difficulties, tech dif, techdif, contractors, glitches, glitching, glitch

Id: V1OG8nn9QcU

Length: 10min 12sec (612 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 31 2017