The Unique Creative Potential of Let’s Plays
Shain Slepian (video essay)
After strife, sadness, ennui, and mild temporary insanity, my new video is up. I’m proud of this, not gonna lie. It’s got my signature coating of rough editing and barely acceptable definition, but what do you need to see my chicken pox scars for anyway?
To be honest, I am more proud of this piece than anything else I have ever made. I am far from a perfectionist: it’s always been a big problem for me, sticking through with something until I thought it was everything it truly could be. I love art for the way it feels to bring something into reality, and reality is necessarily imperfect. So when I feel my passion for a project waning, the time to get out was yesterday.
My new video is about the theatrical potential of let’s plays… and why I think it isn’t being realized yet.
But for this video, at least for the script, I feel like I was as close to perfectionist as I have ever been. I didn’t really give up until I thought I had made the points I wanted to make. I’ve never made a video…
