Thursday, 28 April 2011

A Marathon Task

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.

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