May 13, 2021

Today was a bit of a lazy day for us. After publishing our pilot episode last night, we mainly spent the day gathering feedback and reflecting on the episode. We started to craft a framework for our next episode, considering whether we wanted it to be more funny or more introspective. We also played around with some other formats, such as a video-styled segment in which we would rank rappers on a tier list. After I made one on a handy website, we sat down and simply gave it shot. We took many takes, but it was getting late and we were beginning to lose our focus and the episodes took a turn much more down the comedy lane, not for the better but for worse. However, we still liked portions of them so we may push those out in the future, in a shortened format. 





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