Kyle's Super Swag Film Blog

Open Broadcast Software (OBS) is one of the most commonly used solutions for screen recording and live-streaming. With it being difficult being able to go out and film outside of my home during quarantine, I decided to try and learn to use OBS as I feel it may be a useful tool for some of the projects that I have ideas for. The following is what I have learned so far about using OBS. OBS Basics When first launching OBS the program at first may seem intimidating. However, after a little set-up, it begins to make sense. The first step in the process to work in OBS is to create a scene. Scenes allow for an easy way to have different preset formats for the content you are recording. Once you create your first scene, the next step is to add your different sources. There are a variety of different sources that you can input into a scene such as window capture, display capture, game capture, video device capture, and media capture. Once sources are entered into the scene, you are able to

Feature length films and television series are both different outlets that a filmmaker is able to use to express their stories. The lengths of both formats have their own strengths and weaknesses for a filmmaker to be aware of. I have done some investigating in order to compare both formats in order to determine which to consider writing for. Series Writing a story as a television or streaming series allows for longer and more detailed stories to be told. An episode of a series will usually be anywhere from thirty to sixty minutes long. While at first this limited amount of time may seem like a hindrance, splitting your story into multiple episodes allows for more time overall to go into detail and tell your story. An example that I have observed of shorter episodes benefiting storytelling can be seen in the differences between the fourth season of the anime series  Jojo's Bizarre Adventure  and its film adaptation Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter