(Cancelled(?) episode) Seismic Tremor Detection

(Audio was not added when original episode was cancelled (March 11-ish 2021)--I added it for better viewer experience)

What you are watching is the original version of (what would later be called) Home Invasion Help which, until around early March 2021, had an entirely different first half.

I had created the found-footage segment of Home Invasion Help as a continuation of an episode titled Seismic Tremor Detection, was intended to explore the (literal) inner workings of the Gardens beneath the earth. After I had finished the found-footage segment it occurred to me just how unrelated the two halves were. I also ultimately realized that the first half just wasn't interesting nor scary enough to warrant nearly 4 minutes of runtime. Something I've become very mindful of when making Gemini (probably sometimes to a detrimental extent) is avoiding wasting the viewer's time. There is for sure something to be said about using the "non-scary" moments of a video like this to set up what's to come, and maybe to lull the viewer into a calm before the scary moments happen, but overall I don't think it benefits the storytelling to spend an entire minute explaining the Richter Scale to the audience. The whole first half is a long-winded buildup to the "heartbeat in the earth" punchline, which I think is a really cool and scary concept, but I don't think it is worth half a video. I'm far happier with how Home Invasion Help eventually ended up. Even if its lore implications may be less obvious than they could have been with this earlier version, I enjoy the presentation and horror of the final product far more.

Something I do like about the unfortunately abbreviated STD is the graphics. I think the visual style is awesome, and its font--which I also used for the similarly cancelled Basics of Broadcast--is just so fun. I was also very proud of the Richter Scale chart--I made it myself. :3

Anyways that's the video, thanks for reading if you did! If you have questions or comments of any kind, let me know! Would this have been the better version of the video? How would you have made it better?

Thank you very very much for the constant unconditional support that you have given me. I understand it's been an absurdly long time since I have posted or given any indication that I am still living, so I appreciate you all very much for sticking it out with me and I would not blame you if you decided to cancel your subscriptions. Right now I have nothing tangible to show for the nearly 2 years since Old Bones released but I promise that I am working whenever I can to make the next episode the best (and scariest) that it can possibly be. My life has been very busy lately. Right now I am at home for a week which has given me time to make this post before I move on to a very busy summer. My deepest hope is that once I move in the Fall that I will (finally (for real this time)) have the free time to devote more of myself into this series and community which I love deeply.