The Many Types Of Silent Protagonists (And When They Go Wrong)

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Published on September 20, 2020 3:15:05 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMkAq47IzEw

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Silent Protagonists are an interesting type of character for a piece of media. I've been paying attention to how games handle a silent protagonist over the years, and this video is just me talking about my feelings on the trope.

Series like Metroid, Half-Life, Portal, and Doom are defined by their silent protagonist. It's an interesting narrative design decision that really allows the writers to flex their brain muscles. But what happens when a silent protagonist goes voiced?

Here, I talk about that, more likely than not, unfortunate situation.
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Production Notes: This is a video that I definitely feel could have been better. I'm not really happy with my voiceover in this one, especially in the last few minutes. Which is weird because this is my latest video and I would think that I would be getting more comfortable recording VO and hopefully find my own "voice". As I've said previously, I'm just working on putting videos out, even if they have parts I'm not entirely happy with. I want to get into the groove of making videos, and rerecording an entire VO would really suck and kill my motivation.

I don't know if I talked about this in a previous video's notes, but I really have a problem with finding accompanying visuals for what I'm talking about in some areas. I like to cut away from a game as background video to hit home a point or just if I'm talking about nothing in particular, and I feel like that's a bad habit. I need to find more footage to use as background and stop cutting to a blank backdrop. Or at least find a more interesting image for the backdrop.

I'm getting accustomed to Davinci Resolve 16. It definitely doesn't run too well on my computer, which is a shame. I really like the tools it has and I feel I could be really productive with it if it didn't hitch up for 5 seconds whenever I switched to another task or clip later in the timeline. I'm gonna maybe try Shotcut, but from what I've seen, it might be too simplistic for the stuff I've been going for and things I hope to do in later videos. But if it runs a lot better, then it might be worth the sacrifice.
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0:00 Intro
0:31 1st Type of Silent Protagonist
2:59 2nd Type of Silent Protagonist
5:17 3rd Type of Silent Protagonist
17:38 Conclusion
18:08 Outro
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