A Video About Not Making A Video

This movie is a bit different than my others. This specific idea has been in my head for the past 4 months, eating away at me. I wanted to figure out how to express what goes on behind the scenes of making one of these in a way that, hopefully, makes sense.

The hardest part of making something is deciding if it actually needs to be made and if you are the one who has to do it. If I can't tell a story well, I'd rather not tell it all. When it comes to creating, the biggest obstacle is always you.

Thanks for watching my creative existential crisis that happens every time I make a movie. I'm sure I'm not unique in feeling this way.

***Credits***

Written, directed, hosted, and edited by Jake Roper

VFX and cinematography by Eric Langlay

Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi

***VSAUCE***

[MazeFrame]

"Maybe that I am a failure."
Michael walking in: "But are you?"

[TrapMusicNow]

YouTube's unofficial motivational video for creators.

[Gehab]

Damn dude. This is *spot on* for a lot of creators.

[andreyleonel]

"Vsauce, *i'm not here*, and as always thanks for watching!"

[bwxmoto]

This video is like a when a writer that has writer's block writes a book about a writer with writer's block.

[TheActionLab]

Man I can’t believe I just barely watched this. This is spot on! It’s nice to know I’m not the only one that has these cyclical crisis.

[kristerfrank]

And as always. Thanks for making great videos.

[SeigiVA]

This is exactly how i feel with my content

[laynag]

This is so relatable to a point where it’s weird. Like I don’t make videos but I can relate this to SO many other things like school or music or art and thank you for this video and now I’m going to go take an hour to have my existential crisis.

[boazrussell]

"It is only when you have decided that you are a failure, that you have failed."
~ Jake Roper

[Aarrgghh]

The irony of this video, is that this process has probably been documented previously, and we are getting this video as a result of more failed videos, to make up the time inbetween successes.

[conquerandwin]

Release all of the unreleased videos on a new channel and call it 'Fail Sauce'.

[merp]

"A Fractal Image of Success"

[Ronny_Dahl]

Wow!! One of my favorites by far!! that describes exactly what I go through and most other creators too I guess. The biggest critic is always yourself... Love this channel!

[LukeOrSomething]

this is for the most part pretty relatable. Overall nice video.

[stephenbalaban]

It would be entirely ironic if you decided to scrap this video idea

[MrBlackReviews]

can't wait to see your next video... or not?

[iquemedia]

I feel this on a personal level
Keep it up Jake, shit's hard and it sucks but there's no way around it

[zimautanimation]

omg, i really understand your feeling. every project is a struggle, since your standard keep elevate on every iteration. for me every new project feels like scaling the unscalable mountain. everytime i finish, i cant believe i did it. the cost of an artist

[MissBibz]

The script, camera work, and editing...on point! Loved it.