In amongst the weekly task of screencapping Celebrity Apprentice, I'm trying to review 'In Search of Paradise' which takes you behind the scenes of the 2007 Tour. This, like the review of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra DVD is not proving to be an easy thing to get started. How do you start off a review in the first place? I explained on the MSO review that I picked that one because Meat Loaf singing with an orchestra seems natural but how do you start off a review of a documentary? Do you tell people you picked it just because people seemd to be talking about it? Yes. That is the reason I picked it and although I found the documentary facinating, there were also some negative feelings that arose the first time I watched the DVD. I'm not going to go into them now, I'll save that for the review but I don't want to write those negatives down in a way that would cause anyone offence.
I think this is one that'll need a lot of thought and I'll probably be asking for a couple of volunteers to cast their eye over it once it's done just to make sure it is presented in the right way.

Apparantely it's the Reality TV Moment of the year and it certainly attracted a lot of attention and it's something that I've been asked about a few times. It's the moment from Episode Five where Meat Loaf loses his cool with Gary Busey.
I think that moment was hyped up before the series aired for the sake of the ratings so prior to this people were already looking forward to it in some kind of wierd way, these are the kind of people that thrive on reading and watching celebrities have 'meltdowns'. They find it funny and sometimes I wonder if it makes them feel better about their own lives.
Following the airing of the episode, the media jumped on the bandwagon. Message boards were full of critical comments about Meat and calling him cruel names. It appeared from the episode that Meat was throwing a tantrum because he couldn't find his paints and this is what the media have focused on. They ignored the fact that there were things that happened behind the scenes that could have influenced it and also the fact that Meat Loaf offered an emotional and heartfelt apology which was accepted by Gary Busey. These people who are calling Meat Loaf an evil man don't know him, they're just judging him by what aired that night or what they've read in the newspaper. We all lose our temper from time to time but how many of us are unlucky enough to have it captured on camera, aired on national prime time television and reported in newspapers in other countries? It doesn't mean he's got Bi-Polar Disorder, it doesn't mean he's a horrible person, it just makes him human.

Meat Loaf is appearing in Celebrity Apprentice at the moment and if Everything Louder is serious about achieving it's goals then it's got to have the best screencaps from each episode. Every week, after the episode has been watched through it gets burned to DVD and the screencapping usually begins on the Tuesday or Wednesday. On a typical episode the amount of screencaps taken and uploaded to the website is between about 20-30 and each of those are resized and marked with the watermark after taking and are then uploaded. When the majority of the files are uploaded, one or two of the screencaps are posted in #TeamLoaf as teasers and a few exclusives are usually posted on the Meat Loaf Fan Page.
The amount of time spent doing this has never been calculated but it can take quite a while, depending on how quickly the file downloads. Normally though, that and the burning to disc will take about five hours. Never has one project taken so much time.

Despite the fact that this is a marathon task every week, it's one that I find enjoyable most of the time and once it's over it will be missed. The positive reactions from other Meat Loaf fans when they see the screencaps is what makes this task seem worthwhile, even when I find it a bit of an effort.

Everything Louder originally had a forum attached to it and it was hoped that some fans would sign up but unfortunately the only people signing up were spammers. The trouble was that there was already well established Meat Loaf forum which a small fansite couldn't compete with and so it was decided that the forum would close.
Was the whole Everything Louder project going to go the same way, particularly with the launch of pages on Facebook which saw far more rapid growth than Everything Louder did?
Rather than trying to beat this growth, Everything Louder offered to go into partnership with one of these pages and I am now pleased to be involved with Meat Loaf Fan Page. I'll be giving the page some Exclusive Screencaps that won't go into the Everything Louder galleries as well as linking to them on the site.

Since this partnership began, Everything Louder is beginning to finally take off and I am excited at the prospect of bringing you lots more screencaps and graphics in the future.

Everything Louder now has it's own blog and whilst it may seem silly as Everything Louder is part of BatAngel, it's because Everything Louder is now the biggest site from BatAngel and the BatAngel blog doesn't need to be flooded with news from Everything Louder.
Everything Louder was first launched in 2010 and prior to it's release several different ideas were attempted but eventually it was decided to make it a website that focuses mainly on images. It was a struggle to get the site known as there were so many other Meat Loaf fansites but thanks to a group of fans on Facebook known as #TeamLoaf, the site's existance is becoming more well known.
Everything Louder aims to be the largest Meat Loaf screencap and graphic archive on the web and with over 350 images in our gallery to date I am hoping this is something that may become a reality.