It’s bizarre to me that I know people who get annoyed when I inevitably apologize for talking to them “too much,” and who want to be my friend because they just like who I am and being with me.

I’m glad I have those people, even if I still struggle to accept that it’s ok that I’m here.

Reliquary?

Oh, nice! As someone who grew up in the foothills of western NC, I’ve always appreciated the accents in the Old Gods of Appalachia podcast.

I always forget that Foghorn Leghorn is an option for southern accents in media.

The others always seem to be “Yee-Haw Cowboy” (and the variant “Backwoods Moonshiner”) or “Stereotypical Wealthy Person from Georgia.”

So yeah. That was long, and still probably wouldn’t suffice for the guy who asked years ago.

I’ll miss video production. I loved every part of it, and would gladly do it again.

11/11

All in all during my time with VIZ, I produced ~143 special features. If you picked up a VIZ product with cast/staff interviews or commentaries between 2018-2024 (when I fully stopped working on extras), that’s some of my work.

I also produced ~28 releases over ~11 IPs in the last few years.

10/11

Being a “producer” was essentially project management work.

I made sure designers had art assets, oversaw internal approvals, worked on disc menu design, did disc QC, etc. It was fun! And I worked on some cool stuff.

Still, video production and being a line producer was what I loved.

9/11

At this point I took over all of it. All of the clerical work, writing, research, line production, interviewing, rough cuts—the whole thing, and I absolutely loved it.

Meanwhile, I kept working on booklets and started working as a “producer” for actual home video releases.

8/11

My boss encouraged all of this, and two of my proudest moments were when he decided he didn’t need to review my work, and our main videographer/editor told me I had a great eye for editing.

We worked well together, but eventually my boss left the company.

7/11

Still, I wanted to do more.

At this point my boss was the one conducting interviews, so I decided to lean into video post-production.

I started managing development of art assets for interviews (lower thirds, question slates) and doing initial rough cuts to save our video team some time.

6/11

After just under two years on the job I was still handling booklet production, and now actively doing research on other releases (for packaging development and ideas for physical extras), and doing 100% of the research, question writing and line production for interviews and commentaries.

5/11

You know: sending emails internally, organizing paperwork, etc. while he handled speaking with talent, writing, booking, scheduling, budgets, and all the other stuff a line producer does.

But because he was increasingly busy, all of that was eventually transferred over to me.

It was a lot! 4/11

In addition to this, my boss had recently convinced management to let our team (home video) be responsible for creating our own on-disc, English-language extras.

Since he was doing his regular job as well, he brought me in on those projects to help out.

This mostly started as clerical work. 3/11

So originally I was hired as an Associate Project Manager.

I had lots of experience in print production, and the job was mostly managing the production/approval process for those 48-98+ page booklets that come with Limited Editions (I can talk about that separately if anyone is interested). 2/11