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Post by Megalon on Dec 11, 2021 16:04:48 GMT -5
Any updates this week? Weren't they supposed to have filmed another block? No update so far. Personally, though, I don't have any interest in updates now that we have a premiere date (March 4, 2022). Reading updates is just watching a pot come to a boil.
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Post by kracker on Dec 11, 2021 18:05:08 GMT -5
They were late with the last update (posted Monday) so don't know if it will come today. But they should be doing updates because the Gizmoplex beta test should be underway.
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Post by BilLumberg on Dec 12, 2021 14:59:08 GMT -5
Chatter on the discus forum seems to point to the gismoplex being more complicated and costly than they initially anticipated. I wouldn't expect more than a basic streaming service in March. Must admit I would love to get in on the beta though.
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Post by Diet Kolos on Dec 12, 2021 15:18:20 GMT -5
Promise the moon and stars and getting it is more complicated than initially forecast? Whodda thunk.
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Post by kracker on Dec 12, 2021 16:03:27 GMT -5
How would the cynical chatter in this forum indicate what's going on in the production offices? There's been little in the updates this year that have actually concerned the Gizmoplex so its rather speculative to say they are somehow in over their heads without any inside knowledge.
We really dont know what is determining the production schedule. Maybe its the episodes that are taking longer than anticipated. Maybe they anticipate additional shooting before completing episodes. Maybe they don't want to launch during a tour month. Maybe they dont want to launch while shooting. Maybe they want time to gather or produce more content for the initial launch. Maybe they decided want they want to take the time to get more of the features for the launch. Maybe they ARE anticipating complications so they set a safer deadline. Maybe all of the above. But I don't see where they indicated that unforeseen Gizmoplex problems are delaying things.
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Post by BilLumberg on Dec 12, 2021 16:28:10 GMT -5
Sorry, I meant the discourse forum.
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Post by kracker on Dec 12, 2021 16:58:38 GMT -5
huh.. did they make some kind of statement about the Gizmoplex progress? i havent seen anything in their summary emails about it and the chatter in the discourse forum has generally just been more MST3K fans entertaining themselves with jokes unless there's a thread im missing
because there's nothing in the discourse forum indicating they are running into Gizmoplex trouble
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Post by monkeypretzel on Dec 12, 2021 21:46:04 GMT -5
Any updates this week? Weren't they supposed to have filmed another block?No update as of Sunday night. Interesting how those weekly updates have started to slip. But of course, they are Very Busy (TM). Basically the last update with any information was the 11/20 one, which mentioned "unexpected setbacks" a/k/a "production hiccups." By now, the classic episodes were supposed to have gone out to backers, and the VHX title cards were to have started being updated to their Gizmoplex art. Neither of those have happened. Yes, they did finish another week of filming. Both Tim Ryder and Rebecca Hanson tweeted about it. There is still a live virtual set visit due, that was supposed to happen in November; no info about that has gone out to the participating backers as of December 6th. As to the Gizmoplex, not a word about recruiting volunteers for the beta test either in their forum or at the Kickstarter site.
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Post by kracker on Dec 13, 2021 13:16:42 GMT -5
Update just dropped. Last of the LA shooting finishes this week then production goes dark until Feb. when all the Joel episodes as well as the big holiday episode gets covered. Still seems there's a lot left to shoot even after that during the Feb month. Post-production team starts editing things in Jan.
Classic episodes are coming before Christmas.
Virtual set visits will resume in January and they address the missed set visit dates in the update
No Gizmoplex beta test news.
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Post by BoB3K on Dec 13, 2021 15:18:16 GMT -5
Chatter on the discus forum seems to point to the gismoplex being more complicated and costly than they initially anticipated. I wouldn't expect more than a basic streaming service in March. Must admit I would love to get in on the beta though. Speechless. ... Re new updated--I don't know how to feel about those pics of the ridiculously cool/fancy miniature set up for the like two shots it will be used in and then the pics of shooting host segments in front of a green screen...
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Post by monkeypretzel on Dec 13, 2021 17:09:26 GMT -5
This is how Lesley responded to someone on their forum who stated they were disappointed with the way the Turkey Day segments looked in regards to the green screen and that they are a little worried about the final product, after seeing today's update:
"I do want to gently moderate expectations a bit here.
At the time of the Kickstarter, we did not actually expect we’d be able to shoot on a stage with a crew AT ALL, both due to covid and financial limitations. The Kickstarter videos set forth a plan in which folks would be filming from home and we would be working to composite folks together, and maybe occasionally we would get a couple people to shoot together in the same space at the same time, but that would have been the exception and not the rule.
We are, of course, DELIGHTED to have worked things out to have everybody filming together on set, even if the set is a green screen. That’s a huge bonus compared to what we thought we would be able to do. I don’t mention this to suggest y’all’s feelings or concerns are not valid – they absolutely are reasonable things to worry about! – but just to provide context for where we started and where we’ve wound up."
So let us all be grateful and thankful to NuMST, I guess, that the host segments don't look even worse - like they were planned to be. *eyeroll*
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Post by Megalon on Dec 13, 2021 19:13:04 GMT -5
Personally, I don't mind the green-screen. The original plan would have been a disaster, though.
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Post by Diet Kolos on Dec 13, 2021 20:03:09 GMT -5
Oh, the original plan would've been terrible. No argument there.
That's not to say the greenscreen is the best option, it's still cheap-looking and distracting. But...yeah that first way of shooting they talked about in the campaign was...no bueno.
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Post by kracker on Dec 14, 2021 10:50:59 GMT -5
They probably just had no idea what the studio situation (not to mention the restrictions) was going to be like six months later during a pandemic, or what the pandemic situation was going to be like, for that matter. And ya'll would have absolutely blown your tops if they promised the current setup to backers then the unforeseen winds up forcing having to scale the logistics back. Because one way or form or another, they have to deliver on these episodes. I mean, you guys blow your tops anyway but you see my point. I don't know how to feel about those pics of the ridiculously cool/fancy miniature set up for the like two shots it will be used in and then the pics of shooting host segments in front of a green screen... it helps to be able to tell the difference building a miniature and having to build whole warehouse size sets with working gimmicks like the hexfield that you then have to maintain and store with no certainty that they would be used again in the many years to come. btw the whole green screen vs warehouse set thing kinda reminds me of when Patton Oswalt bitched quite audibly about having to drive through the snow in the upper midwest to get to Redlettermedia's freezing warehouse set so he could watch and review the shittiest movies the RLM gang could find. Obviously very far removed from doing MST3K but, i dunno, it popped in my head for some reason >_>
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Post by BilLumberg on Dec 14, 2021 12:12:44 GMT -5
The original show always looked cheap because it was cheap. No problem. It was cheap, but there was obvious effort put into it. The current set just looks cheap and lazy. Give me 2 hours and $100 bucks and I could put together a better console.
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