Diversity. Right. "Hi! I need some help with a little project of mine," they say, looking for something that might clue them in to what his actual name is.

Well, his nameplate says George Saunders. "What kind of project?"

Noted. "A little... webseries, of sorts. With battle footage, power testing, stuff like that."

"That's not a bad idea," nods George Saunders. "As long as it was all scripted carefully and edited well; I'm not sure your budget will cover even student videographers."

"Yes, that's what I wanted to talk to you about. The first one, with footage of the Purity fight, got cleared by the person in charge of branding in Boston, so there's something to go on. I made another one, and did some editing, but all I know how to do was what I learned over the past month or so with the internet, so maybe not terribly good." They look at their shoulderbot. "Can you email it to Mr. Saunders?"

"Done," chirps shoulderbot, and Saunders pulls it up and watches the video.

It's actually fairly decently done and edited, considering. Glam is definitely not a pro, but Lorica's bots are good at recording stuff, and the mysterious ethereal light their costume generates doesn't look bad on camera. They seem to have also dedicated a reasonable amount of time to learning how to use a few of the lower-end video and audio editing tools available.

"It looks amateur, but not bad," George says. "How long did you spend on it?"

"Hmm, about four or five hours total, I think?"

"Did you script it or is this off the cuff?"

"Off the cuff."

"You might want to consider a script. You sound friendly and spontaneous, but at the expense of a fair amount of polish, and I think you could keep the friendly spontaneity with a script if you worked at it."

"You're probably right," they agree. "Is this the sort of thing you think ought to be done by someone who knows what they're doing? And if yes, would you be willing to help me with it? Maybe I write stuff, you comment on it, I fix it, we back-and-forth until we're both satisfied? If you're too busy or don't want to do it you don't need to worry about it."

"That seems well within my purview," smiles George. "I'd be happy to edit your scripts."

"It's, hmm. Like I said, spontaneous and friendly, but there's not a clear structure to the video as a whole and it's not clear why you're making one in the first place - an audience member could guess at motivations but only guess."

"Right! I'll work on the scripting there, but I meant the actual video and audio editing part, effects, lighting, sound, those."

"Ah. It's, again, good but amateur - this looks like you filmed it in a randomly chosen room which happened to have good lighting but it would only take a little setup to have something more studio-like arranged. There's not very much background noise but there's a little. You didn't abuse Powerpoint transitions between parts, so that's good."

They giggle, but nod. "Something more studio-like, alright. Can be arranged. Do you think anything in specific should be in the background?"

"You could just go with a blank drape. The outside of HQ would send a certain message; if you want to create assorted sets, different each video, with your power, that would add a kind of whimsy I suspect is part of what you're going for."

"Ooh, yes, good idea, I like it!"

"Ideally it would be tied in to the video in question, but you could also just set one in a power-generated Alps for no reason," shrugs George Saunders.

"I'm gonna do one in candyland."

"...I suppose that's also an option."

"The whimsy is only mostly a character," they say, grinning, before turning a bit more serious again: "Why, do you think candyland's a bad choice?"