I want to make a "I Spent 100 Days In Stardew Valley" video

[Vic]

I want to make a video where I spend 100 days in Stardew Valley but I don't have any experience on this. Should I record every (in game) day separately from each other?
Feel free to write your suggestions/advices down here, or send me a dm ^_^

 

[Michael LeChite]

I say start with a few days and see how it turns out. Make sure to keep things separately if you don't like how things go and need to delete something (i.e. you keep the game captures separate and if you delete your "demo" video, you don't lose the time spent recording).

I find that if things flow consecutively then you get a better product overall. So it doesn't hurt to focus on a day or two more than others, just so long as they're all in there showing something.

The main thing is to have fun with it, but allow yourself the time to let your creativity really flourish!

 

[MissDandy]

Doing each day individually might leave you a little more room to make corrections or edits to errors (should there be any), and if added all together in order, make a good video. And, it may give you more flexibility if you ever need to start a day over for some reason. I assume that smaller video clips might also be easier to edit as opposed to one big long one, but I wouldn't really know for sure. Maybe try doing both filming methods for a bit on a separate file, and see which way you like it better. Then you'll know what will be best for your video!

 

[imnvs]

I'd suggest videoing the whole thing. Then do a post-production edit, and in doing so you need to remove all the boring parts. Then you can see how much time you still have. Then you can better figure out how much you still want to cut so that it's not too long. Keep in mind, 6am to 2am (the playable time) takes a minimum of 14 minutes 20 seconds of real time to pass. You don't have to stay up to 2am (and in fact getting to be at or just before midnight is the way to ensure you always wake up with max energy) so that can shorten that time, but any interaction that pauses time or any time you choose to pause yourself, that extends that time too. I'd say that if you're working quick and not pausing, you're looking at about 15 to 20 minutes of real time to play each day. That means you're looking at 25 to 33.3 hours of footage that you'll be working with. Try not to keep too much of it.

 

[Guang]

When I made a similar long gameplay video, I just let the recorder run for the whole session and then made a rough cut in editing to get rid of slow or repetitive parts, like watering crops or mining. Breaking it up into separate days sounds nice for organizing, but I found that hitting record once per big play session felt less disruptive and made things easier to keep track of. The main editing challenge is how much time you want the final video to be, because otherwise you can end up with a lot of footage to sift through! To actually record everything smoothly, I always look for a good screen recorder for pc that lets me set what part of the screen to capture and adjust the audio, since I edit a lot in post. Makes life a lot easier for this kind of project.

 

[BeenASon]

When I made a similar long gameplay video, I just let the recorder run for the whole session and then made a rough cut in editing to get rid of slow or repetitive parts, like watering crops or mining. Breaking it up into separate days sounds nice for organizing, but I found that hitting record once per big play session felt less disruptive and made things easier to keep track of. The main editing challenge is how much time you want the final video to be, because otherwise you can end up with a lot of footage to sift through!

Editing is such a pain.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

When I made a similar long gameplay video, I just let the recorder run for the whole session and then made a rough cut in editing to get rid of slow or repetitive parts, like watering crops or mining. Breaking it up into separate days sounds nice for organizing, but I found that hitting record once per big play session felt less disruptive and made things easier to keep track of. The main editing challenge is how much time you want the final video to be, because otherwise you can end up with a lot of footage to sift through! To actually record everything smoothly, I always look for a good screen recorder for pc that lets me set what part of the screen to capture and adjust the audio, since I edit a lot in post. Makes life a lot easier for this kind of project.

That would definitely work for something like a day by day playthrough, but I've done some basic editing for my own videos and it gets super taxing if you're recording a longer run that you want to condense.

The main issues are that you have to then watch your own recording repeatedly to make sure you get everything you need, but then also include all the context of what you include, all without making a super long video that's uninteresting as it doesn't highlight the important moments enough.


I do agree with the idea, for a 100 day video, though, I think it's a little more natural for a format where you want to include little bits of every day, and the things that stand out, unlike a challenge video like my own that focuses more on each little mechanic as the run progresses.