Our first videos are live! Yes, it was painful...

We have been hard at work this weekend starting to populate the YouTube channel with videos of Lego builds.  It has been quite the process having to work through all of the difference facets of making these videos.  Honestly, it was more work than we had anticipated.

I flew from London on Friday afternoon, arriving in Seattle at around 3:00pm.  I spoke with my family, unpacked, and hung out with my kids until around 7:00pm that night.  Then it was time to get to work.  It started with unpacking the large pile of boxes that had arrived while I was traveling abroad.  The boxes contained things like Legos, photography lights, table cloths, GoPros, tripods and a myriad of other items needed to help make these shoots successful.  This whole process of unpacking took about two hours.

Setup was next on the list.  I wrestled with the light soft boxes, got the table cloth and muslin cloths ironed, setup the stands for the lights, prepped the GoPros and RX10 for filming and finally walked through mentally the order in which the video was going to go.  I was just about to start building when I decided to do a time check, it was a little after 10:00pm. 

Three hours later, I am finally building Legos.  I began filming the opening of the 97 piece star destroyer. I built the set while the GoPro recorded the time lapse. Finally I recorded all the scenes to finish the production.  Happy birthday to me - it's now after midnight, January 17th and it is officially my birthday.

As a present to myself I now have to edit this video and this is where the pain begins. Editing started by opening up my Razer Blade laptop and booting up Adobe Premier, which doesn't load. I fiddle with this, for who knows how long, and finally go up stairs to work on my desktop machine.  Unfortunately that machine is in my bedroom, and as quiet as I think I am being, I wake up my wife. Luckily, I have a forgotten Alienware laptop stored away, that I grab and prep to use to edit.  Twenty windows updates and some software downloads later it finally works.

At 6:30am on January 17th the first video went live on YouTube, almost twelve hours later.  

So yeah, it was hard, but we think it was worth it!  So without further delay, here are the first two videos from Lego Rebels!

Lego Star Wars 75033 Microfighters Series One Star Destroyer

Lego Star Wars 75099 Rey's Speeder

 

So enjoy! Leave feedback, tell us what we can do better.  Just know that we are working hard, to bring you good Lego content :)

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