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EveningStar

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Let's revive the rich legacy of NarniaFansCast by using audio programmes on YouTube with some NEW audio specials. I have one coming out relatively soon, a dramatization of "The Visitor," and the voices will be my wife "LadyBadger" and I. If this fares well, we might start opening the floor to submissions from other people and bring back a little magic to the whole community.

Since you can subscribe and like YouTube videos without podcasting equipment, you can participate on any desktop or mobile devices that support YouTube file playback.

Let's do this thing!

Badgerly Blessings,
EveningStar
 
My granddaughter Wood Nymph and I would >so< much like to be voice actors!!-- if long-distance recording is possible.

Presumably this could be done with a script, reducing fumbles in pronunciation.
 
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Copperfox said:
My granddaughter Wood Nymph and I would >so< much like to be voice actors!!-- if long-distance recording is possible.

Presumably this could be done with a script, reducing fumbles in pronunciation.
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I would love that.
 
For the edification of all onlookers:

I have no means of publishing any story I've written as a physical book in any quantity. Joining this project with EveningStar might result in my becoming able to publish in audiobook format.
 
The script for "The Visitor" is written, which incorporates NUMEROUS improvements over the flow and go of the story posted on this forum. I have my equipment together and plan to start recording Sunday Feb 22. I will have the foley art done soon and need to ship my digital recorder to some folks who agreed to appear on this production. That will prevent it from being telephone or teleconference quality sound and make it more like everyone was in the same room.
 
I just spent an astonishing HOUR AND 22 MINUTES at the mike recording the narrator's role. That involved reading EVERYONE'S part so that later I would know where to cut and splice in separately recorded and modified dialogue and SFX. It's times like this that my experience as an offline editor at Viacom came in handy.
 
Editing audio books is harder than you think. People have to breathe whether they're singing or reading. The quick gasps readers take come out on a sonogram display as triangles. I can't just cut them out, and I can't replace them with utter blank space. I need an equally long section of ambient "nothing" to put there...the stuff you hear on a recording when no one is saying anything. And then there are the dreaded "I have otterly forgotten to.... CUT! ... I have utterly forgotten to call." Just getting the narration whipped into shape is taking far longer than originally recording it.

The multitrack recordings I do have separate audio spaces for foley art (sound effects), music, secondary dialogue, and SHUSH (yes, that's a thing).

The end result, when everything comes together, is very satisfying. Just to drive that home to my wife (LadyBadger) I played a public domain recording of Tchaikovsky's "Song of the Cherubim" to the narrator speaking of a logbook of young patients that had passed away. The effect was so overwhelming that I had difficulty keeping my voice from quivering as I did the part.

Many people have forgotten what it was like to have NarniaFansCast available to forum members. I am going to remind them...and enlighten those who have joined in recent years...what a Narnia forum can be.
 
dreamwriter07 said:
I'm interested in being a part of this! I do have a fairly high quality mic of my own. Would love to know more!
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Great! So, tell me something about yourself? If you're going to be a voice actor, I want to know I'm not giving Grandma to some guy. ;-) My email is traillifeusa@att.net and I'd like to hear a short audio piece from you in your natural voice and any other voices you do that you feel may be interesting.
 
This work is not cheap. I'm working with Reaper 7 and Little AlterBoy to achieve levels of pitch bend and formates you can't achieve with the cheap stuff (not that I'm insulting Magix or Audacity, but you get what you pay for). After making this high initial investment, I can be persuaded to look at audio files you send in (wav or mp3 please) and see what I can do to composite, envelope, or flange it into what you hear in your head. Be reasonable. I'm not asking to join the Gig of the Week club. ;-) THE END RESULT is a wider cast of voices that I could gather in real life, that sound natural and clear.
 
We get ever closer to the most detailed audio drama ever done for the Dancing Lawn. I anticipate this project will require seven stereo tracks to hold everything from ambient sounds to effects, formants, dialogue, narration, and shush.

It will be the most complex thing I ever put together, and I learned my editing chops at Viacom telecommunications back in the old NTSC days. (Think Comcast).

What people don't understand is that you can have the absolute perfect skid and crash, but the moment of impact lacks punch. So you get a separate effect on a separate channel that has that perfect "puh_SKRIK-ahsssh" in it and add and balance it to coincide with the impact to get that perfect gut-wrenching crash.
 
I have a few things I should mention:

First, we've been trying to build up our new YouTube channel for Narnia Fans as of late.

Second, do you know if you have any or all of the old NarniaFansCast episodes anywhere? I think it would be fun to put those to video (using an animated soundwave, and a nice image with slight animation, to put those up on our youtube channel under "Podcasts." I just don't know if I have any of those anywhere, because I had naively thought that libsyn would be around.

Third, if you have a youtube channel of your own, and have stuff for this that you are planning on putting up there, they have a new feature that allows for Collaborators. That would mean that if you shared your stuff on your youtube channel, you would maintain full control of your content, but it would show to our subscribers too. And both of our subscribers would see both of our channel's names attached to the video, allowing for both of our channels to possibly gain subscribers.
 
Specter said:
I have a few things I should mention:

First, we've been trying to build up our new YouTube channel for Narnia Fans as of late.

Second, do you know if you have any or all of the old NarniaFansCast episodes anywhere? I think it would be fun to put those to video (using an animated soundwave, and a nice image with slight animation, to put those up on our youtube channel under "Podcasts." I just don't know if I have any of those anywhere, because I had naively thought that libsyn would be around.

Third, if you have a youtube channel of your own, and have stuff for this that you are planning on putting up there, they have a new feature that allows for Collaborators. That would mean that if you shared your stuff on your youtube channel, you would maintain full control of your content, but it would show to our subscribers too. And both of our subscribers would see both of our channel's names attached to the video, allowing for both of our channels to possibly gain subscribers.
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It is possible that I have NFC. I definitely have the programs I did for NFC in audio. And I would love to work with you on building your brand if I may collaborate, rather than doing something separate.
 
For sure, that sounds great! I can invite you to the youtube at some point, if you have an account there that you use.
 
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Awesome, let me know the account. I'll subscribe and then I can invite you to have access as well to the NarniaFans one.
 
I hate it that I can't use my main email to manage my YouTube account. Didn't realize till just now that you contacted me at my gmail account, and I accepted.
 
At least we have you added, so now you can see the Narnia Fans youtube, and have access. :-D
 
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