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Hello and welcome to the third episode of "Behind the Blocks". Today with my new co-moderator Tim Weißker. Do you just want to present briefly?
Yeah, you already said my name, I'm Tim. I'm from Bamberg and currently studying media informatics in Weimar.
I've been a domino-builder since 1999, I also hold two world records and am very happy to join CDT for the second time.
And which are the world records you hold?
First the record for most toppled disc cases, set up in last September, and then just recently in May the most miniature dominoes, known from Domino Day 2008.
Nice records if you ask me.
Okay, so let's start with our first video: The setup of the technical equipment before CDT.
Okay. We now have two of the heads of our team here, Niclas and Simon.
How are the preparations going? Is everything working as you imagined it, what is still left to do, which problems are left?
We have now already set up about 150,000 dominoes; the planning works well, we have split our team into building groups this time,
everything is going clearly faster this time.
Can you already see progress in comparison to the last years? What did you change since the first CDT, did it become more professional?
Well, compared to the first time it is of course a huge development we've gone through, but also compared to CDT 2011, there's clearly progress.
As Niclas already said, we have building teams this time instead of just distributing the projects more or less randomly. That makes it all more structured and faster.
Also, there's many new things in the background, like this show for example, which is something completely new we've introduced this time, and our viewers seem to like it.
Extremly many things have changed in the organisation. Our YouTube viewers can't be aware of most of that, but there has been a lot of change behind the scenes.
You two are always very busy in the hall, every other moment someone shouts: Niclas, Niclas, Simon, Simon, help please!
Do you two even set up any dominoes any more?
But in such a big project with such a big group, it makes sense to have two people how keep an eye on the whole thing. That makes it faster, too.
It's okay that we don't build a lot, the consequence is that more dominoes are set up in the same time, not less.
As Tim already said, every other moment someone comes to us with a request. Questions about the masterplan go to Niclas,
questions about the field plans go to me. It would be chaotic if we were in a project and would leave and come back every five minutes.
That's why I think it's better if we build less this year and really take care of the organisation.
Something that might be interesting to many YouTube viewers: the last two CDTs had quite bad lighting. Will that change?
Well, we have much more technical equipment installed; we have a basic lightning and more spots. Our first camera tests show a way better picture than before.
Also, we are thankful for the critical comments there, because that's necessary for us to improve. So if you have something to critizise, please tell us.
- They surely won't be shy about that. - Simon, what do you think, how many dominoes will topple?
That's of course hard to say in advance, and Niclas and me are probably quite biased there because we've made the plans,
So I would say: Everything topples. But I know there are always tricky spots. Still, we've really taken care of safety, so it majorly be a success.
It actually mainly depends on the challenge. It is quite difficult again and if it doesn't work, 20,000 dominoes won't topple.
But other than that, I'm very optimistic most projects will topple. There's always the bad luck that one technique which had always worked suddenly fails.
- It will be very exciting. - It would be great if it did work this year, the challenge. - It will, it will.
Do you want to say anything else to our viewers?
Well, we would like to ask you to share our falldown video, give a thumbs up etc if you like it. We always appreciate positive feedback to our work.
As I see, you have something here for us. What's this here on the table?
Well, that's the concept of this year's CDT show. It's still secret, but we already have a short video for you that shows the first rehearsal.
What we see here is the script of the CDT show; it was just printed out and now we have our first show rehearsal - and you can watch.
Guys, do we start from the very beginning, do we include the lightshow or not?
- Maybe make an improvised one. - Okay.
Hypothetically, the show starts in 10 minutes, so now the fog is released which is needed for the light show.
- Please put my mic on. Should I just read out the script? - Yes, you name each point and tell us how exactly you want it to go.
And memorize the points so that you have in mind what means what.
So first up are the safety rules, Alex can just say some obvious rules now. That's not even a point here. There's no spot on us yet! At this point, the show hasn't started.
Ladies and gentlemen, at first a few safety rules: No running or jumping in the hall...
We want to welcome you to CDT 2012.
So we already saw it in the video: There's a "Builder's Challenge" every year. What that means is that while the chain reaction is already going on, a gap has to be filled.
So then we can already start with the falldown.
Well that looks promising! You've done some work too and posted lots of questions for us - those will be answered by Anno now in his rubric.
This rubric is presented to you by...
NOBODY GIVES A **** ABOUT NAMES
Hello and thank you for your many questions.
(question: How can I join CDT? I'm from the Netherlands) First, you need to be 16 to join. If you are, you can apply to CDT by messaging us.
Will there be a timelapse of the whole setup?
Aha, someone already figured out that the camera in the fail video from last time was a camera over the full hall. That will be a full timelapse - for the long edit.
And what will you do when all 200,000 dominoes are set up? Not all 25 have to prepare the show, right?
Okay, I think you have quite a wrong notion of how much freetime we have... we will definitely not be out of work! For example, we need to make videos for the show.
Which project are you working on?
As you already heard, we have building teams; and I'm in the "Magic" section. Also, I built part of the final field!
Do you already know what you will do next time? And is that decided by one person or by the whole team?
We do have an idea; it's not definite yet though. We hope we'll find some time in one evening to talk about it with the team. So yes, there are already plans.
Where do all of the domino-builders sleep?
In the school! It's quite a big school; we have three or four classrooms at our disposal and have made ourselves comfortable there.
Lots of questions to Anno; I already answered the first one, the second one:
Is your food paid by sponsors, or donations?
Neither nor, we have 0 € of sponsor money (again) and we also don't collect donations. It is all financed by ourselves,
by AdSense - CDT 2010 has almost 4 million views, so there's been some income. Also, every member does pay a part from their own money!
How long does it take to shoot one episode of Behind the Blocks?
About 2 hours, I guess. The first one took longer because we had to install everything. But then, there's 5 hours of editing and a hugely long upload, too!
How many dominoes will probably topple?
Very many! There are many risky projects - 3D projects, but we can learn from mistakes, so we make the triggering mechanism better and are optimistic to clearly break the record.
Is CDT accompagnied by a TV crew this time?
Not accompagnied, but there will be a TV report - and for the first time, it's not a regional one.
For the first time, we'll not have a report that is not broadcast just locally, but in all of Germany. - AND IN SWITZERLAND! - Yeah. And in Switzerland.
On which day and at what time will the falldown happen?
On the 17th, so on Friday, and at about 8pm.
That's it for now and for "Behind the Blocks" in general - this is already the last episode. We wanted to make four, but just don't have the time.
I already mentioned we still need to make videos for the show. So the next video you'll see from us will be the falldown.
And then I'm looking forward to the comments on the falldown. I hope we won't again have masses of "Imagine if he forgot to put record" etc.
I FIND IT QUITE INSULTING THAT PEOPLE THINK I AS ONE OF THE CAMERAMEN COULD FORGET TO PUT ON THE CAMERA IN THAT ONE IMPORTANT MOMENT.
THAT IS INSULTING, I'M NOT THAT STUPID - Anno, Anno? - WHO WOULD BE THAT STUPID, THEY WOULDN'T DESERVE TO... yes?
- Do you remember... last year? - Um. What?
Okay, so we can start the falldown.
- Okay, I guess I'd better film then.
- Oh f***, wrong mode...
- Okay, now it's correct...
- Damn, photo mode...
BYE!
Okay, so Anno already said it: This was the last episode.
And on Friday, we will finally have our falldown. We're looking forward to it and we hope you do too.
We can't show you most projects yet because they're still secret, but one thing we do want to show you: the final field.
Our builders set that up in 7 hours - almost 18,000 dominoes, so that's pretty fast!
- And with this timelapse, we from Behind the Blocks say goodbye for now. - Thanks to you for your co-moderation.
-Also to the whole team who helped us a lot here. - And we hope you'll watch the falldown when it's online. - Bye!
(Credits in English in the video description)
It's a wrap, it's a wrap, finally it's a wrap...
It's... a... *snore*