how do you keep organized when working on a large project (like hotewig)? there are so many moving parts (research, music, script, art) and they all interact with each other. i try to keep track of stuff in text files but then i end up either making 10,000 small text files or two or three giant ones both of which are completely unorganized. every time i try to impose order on them they just... unorganize themselves when the project changes direction as it inevitably does. how do you impose order without ruining the inherent messiness of the creative process?
for that one i already knew what i was doing because i had already done history of japan, which was the exact same process but much smaller in scale. history of japan however was still much larger than any other project i did before, so i was somewhat surprised that it went so smoothly, but nonetheless i had still done a huge amount of videos before then, so my processes were well under control by then. if you produce a lot of work you learn everything you need to know automatically. if you start with very small sized products you will learn very quickly and easily