ALL of the old NarniaFansCast programs have been retrieved from my badgerly archives. I can upload them to the YouTube channel.
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Ooooooh awesome! :-D Let me know if you need help. They might require a video with them or something. I just added a new Podcast listing to the youtube for NarniaFansCast, including the original logo we had for it.
I am thinking, if we can create a look/feel for a video version of the podcast, I can likely create it.
I might even try something like this: https://audioship.io/pricing?from=top_nav
But I also have Adobe Premiere and DaVinci Resolve that I can use to assemble a video version of it. I was thinking of having an animated audio-wave and some slight animations so that there's no burn-in on older LCD TVs if people play it there.
I'm also thinking of doing a slow release over weeks/months, so as to not flood people's youtube subscriptions with episodes, and hopefully build up more subscribers.
I am thinking, if we can create a look/feel for a video version of the podcast, I can likely create it.
I might even try something like this: https://audioship.io/pricing?from=top_nav
But I also have Adobe Premiere and DaVinci Resolve that I can use to assemble a video version of it. I was thinking of having an animated audio-wave and some slight animations so that there's no burn-in on older LCD TVs if people play it there.
I'm also thinking of doing a slow release over weeks/months, so as to not flood people's youtube subscriptions with episodes, and hopefully build up more subscribers.
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This rather massive project for "The Visitor" requires that I assemble vocal talent from more than one location, and that I carefully time and mesh effects, voices, and narration. I forsee having the finished product done before the end of this month.
To have some idea, imagine this. You come into someone's room and hug them. So it's <STEP STEP STEP> <LATCH> <CREAK> <STEP STEP STEP> <CLOTHES RUSTLE> <EMBRACE> <PAT PAT> [JIM] "Darling, it's good to see you! <BEAT> [NANCY] "Jimmy, I hope you're going to be in town for a while." <SIMUL SIGHS> <BRIEFCASE DOWN> <CLOTHES RUSTLE>
This rather massive project for "The Visitor" requires that I assemble vocal talent from more than one location, and that I carefully time and mesh effects, voices, and narration. I forsee having the finished product done before the end of this month.
To have some idea, imagine this. You come into someone's room and hug them. So it's <STEP STEP STEP> <LATCH> <CREAK> <STEP STEP STEP> <CLOTHES RUSTLE> <EMBRACE> <PAT PAT> [JIM] "Darling, it's good to see you! <BEAT> [NANCY] "Jimmy, I hope you're going to be in town for a while." <SIMUL SIGHS> <BRIEFCASE DOWN> <CLOTHES RUSTLE>
Upload of all episodes from 001 to 045 is now complete, as is the Patrick Swanson opener and closer music.
What do you think about having, perhaps, a "NarniaFansCast Archive" podcast playlist for the original shows, and a "NarniaFansCast" podcast playlist for the new shows? Or... "Cair Paravel Studios" podcast playlist for these?
Any thoughts on what direction?
We could also just have the new ones follow from episode 46 onward... I had been considering doing the re-release at a cadence of 2/week of the old episodes, but I could go faster than that, even releasing 5/week Monday-Friday, with 45 episodes, it would take 9 weeks to get all of the episodes live.
One thing I have learned about YouTube is not to flood a channel with too much new content all at once. When people who subscribe to a bunch of things go about their daily routines, they'll see that you have far too much content at one time, and don't know if that's going to be the norm, so they unsubscribe.
I'll run through a little Pros and Cons:
NarniaFansCast Archive + NarniaFansCast or Cair Paravel Studios
- Can schedule the NarniaFansCast Archive episodes on Monday/Wednesday/Friday, which would go until Summer, sometime depending on when it is started.
- Is easy to see which is which
- Could cause confusion with the same name for two podcasts, unless the name is the new one.
- It's more than one thing to follow, which we're already going to have a little of, with the resurrection of the old NarniaCast episodes also making a comeback at some point in their own list.
NarniaFansCast (all-in-one)
- Might want to wait until all original episodes are launched, unless we knew we had a rhythm to the release of the new episodes, etc.
- We would want to have a daily release for 9 weeks to be able to get there sooner, if necessary.
- Could still schedule the NarniaFansCast Archive episodes on Monday/Wednesday/Friday, which would go until Summer, sometime depending on when it is started. I will be labelling all the old episodes as "Archive" regardless.
- It's one place for people to subscribe and follow along with.
Cair Paravel Studios
- Could serve as a new brand for the radio dramas. If I recall correctly, a lot of the later episodes of NarniaFansCast were Byron on Wells stories or somesuch (been almost 20 years).
- Any of the old radio dramas could potentially be updated/moved under that banner. Same channel, different podcast playlist. Thinking about this makes me cross-eyed, but I would want to ensure that we are organizing things properly.
Any thoughts on what direction?
We could also just have the new ones follow from episode 46 onward... I had been considering doing the re-release at a cadence of 2/week of the old episodes, but I could go faster than that, even releasing 5/week Monday-Friday, with 45 episodes, it would take 9 weeks to get all of the episodes live.
One thing I have learned about YouTube is not to flood a channel with too much new content all at once. When people who subscribe to a bunch of things go about their daily routines, they'll see that you have far too much content at one time, and don't know if that's going to be the norm, so they unsubscribe.
I'll run through a little Pros and Cons:
NarniaFansCast Archive + NarniaFansCast or Cair Paravel Studios
- Can schedule the NarniaFansCast Archive episodes on Monday/Wednesday/Friday, which would go until Summer, sometime depending on when it is started.
- Is easy to see which is which
- Could cause confusion with the same name for two podcasts, unless the name is the new one.
- It's more than one thing to follow, which we're already going to have a little of, with the resurrection of the old NarniaCast episodes also making a comeback at some point in their own list.
NarniaFansCast (all-in-one)
- Might want to wait until all original episodes are launched, unless we knew we had a rhythm to the release of the new episodes, etc.
- We would want to have a daily release for 9 weeks to be able to get there sooner, if necessary.
- Could still schedule the NarniaFansCast Archive episodes on Monday/Wednesday/Friday, which would go until Summer, sometime depending on when it is started. I will be labelling all the old episodes as "Archive" regardless.
- It's one place for people to subscribe and follow along with.
Cair Paravel Studios
- Could serve as a new brand for the radio dramas. If I recall correctly, a lot of the later episodes of NarniaFansCast were Byron on Wells stories or somesuch (been almost 20 years).
- Any of the old radio dramas could potentially be updated/moved under that banner. Same channel, different podcast playlist. Thinking about this makes me cross-eyed, but I would want to ensure that we are organizing things properly.
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For any of you familiar with Star Trek V, the movie where a being claiming to be God appeared in a pillar of light and had a creepy reverse-reverb voice effect, I have that effect here and am using it to voice "The Future", a being whose existance is undeniable but who cannot be clearly seen.
I also have added capacity for such expensive "toys" as Little Alter Boy and Samplitude.
It's my hope to create something inspirational and immersive.
I also have added capacity for such expensive "toys" as Little Alter Boy and Samplitude.
It's my hope to create something inspirational and immersive.
Piecing together over 100 sound effects and distributing all the voice parts across 11 chapters is taking time. The end result will be well worth hearing. You have to think of a radio drama as a movie without moving images...in every other way it is the same. "The Visitor" is going to be epic.
Vast amount of work being done on "The Visitor". I am excited to announce that the audio program is actually far better developed than the text version in the professors writing area. You are getting a better edited cut with several important additions.
Woot.
Woot.
There is magic in sound effects when they are combined in groups. When you first hear the laugh track AND applause, or when you hear giggling children having a pillow fight. As I work to put together all the sounds and dialogue that make up an hour and quarter audio drama, I realize how much work it will be to finish it, yet I also get a great satisfaction in hearing the story come to life a page at a time.
I'm owed a couple of dialogue tracks at the moment and I have recorded substandard placeholder audio to pad out the program to assist me in editing what I do have.
For the curious, "Cair Paravel Studios" concert hall is Magix Samplitude Music Studio used in conjunction with Audacity and Soundtoys' Little Alter Boy. The wee beastie that runs this software has 32 gigs of ram and an Intel i9 architecture with all non-volatile ram file storage. My microphone is the Blue "Yeti" stereo condenser. A staggering 20 years ago when I used to do recording with side condensers and all analog mixing, I had cables everywhere and stands galore. Now my outlay is much more slim and trim with the main investment in software.
I'm owed a couple of dialogue tracks at the moment and I have recorded substandard placeholder audio to pad out the program to assist me in editing what I do have.
For the curious, "Cair Paravel Studios" concert hall is Magix Samplitude Music Studio used in conjunction with Audacity and Soundtoys' Little Alter Boy. The wee beastie that runs this software has 32 gigs of ram and an Intel i9 architecture with all non-volatile ram file storage. My microphone is the Blue "Yeti" stereo condenser. A staggering 20 years ago when I used to do recording with side condensers and all analog mixing, I had cables everywhere and stands galore. Now my outlay is much more slim and trim with the main investment in software.
CONFESSIONS OF A FOLEY ARTIST: Yes, we are called Foley Artists, those who specialize in the creation and manipulation of sound effects. I have literally walked in David's steps in "The Visitor". When you hear him walk across the floor, it is my size 13-D's. Likewise, my wife Lynne is Maureen when it comes to donning the -- literally -- bunny slippers. What keeps audio drama from being talking heads is a lot of opening cabinets, unscrewing jars, slamming doors, and sitting in creaky wooden chairs. And we are doing it as The Visitor comes close to wrapping up.
To hug David, I used a large bolt of rubberized cloth which had just the right amount of give and chiff, and you think that would be my most emotional success, but no. There was one part where Dewdrop, afraid of losing Davy, starts to "sob uncontrollably." That isn't in the dialog track and happens in the background, so I did it as foley art. I cried my eyes out into the microphone, then used Little Alter Boy to push the pitch and formants into the little girl range. What happened next was unexpected: I listened to the final recording and heard a child...my child...sobbing in terrified grief. Once you've been a parent, you'll understand what happened. Tears--real tears--welled up in my eyes.
Despite your imagining me in a 1930s broadcast booth with a cowbell, dry stick, and aaougha horn, the most important sounds to creating life are the...pardon me Simon and Garfunkel...the SOUNDS OF SILENCE. Moving air, distant footsteps, breathing, clothes rustling, chairs creeking, and clocks ticking. All the things that talk when everyone shuts up. That's called a "shush track," and in today's world you'd be surprised what can interfere with capturing it, not only because it is extremely quiet, but because refrigerators are keeping your milk cold, cars drive through the neighborhood, and the guy down the street is mowing his unruly spring fescue.
And then there's the cat. Officially Mabel, functionally "Squink," who picks the most inopportune times to get very mouthy about the cat food we buy for her. On mic. And as much as I love her, those are the moments I want to worship her FROM AFAR.
More as the final editing takes place. Peace.
To hug David, I used a large bolt of rubberized cloth which had just the right amount of give and chiff, and you think that would be my most emotional success, but no. There was one part where Dewdrop, afraid of losing Davy, starts to "sob uncontrollably." That isn't in the dialog track and happens in the background, so I did it as foley art. I cried my eyes out into the microphone, then used Little Alter Boy to push the pitch and formants into the little girl range. What happened next was unexpected: I listened to the final recording and heard a child...my child...sobbing in terrified grief. Once you've been a parent, you'll understand what happened. Tears--real tears--welled up in my eyes.
Despite your imagining me in a 1930s broadcast booth with a cowbell, dry stick, and aaougha horn, the most important sounds to creating life are the...pardon me Simon and Garfunkel...the SOUNDS OF SILENCE. Moving air, distant footsteps, breathing, clothes rustling, chairs creeking, and clocks ticking. All the things that talk when everyone shuts up. That's called a "shush track," and in today's world you'd be surprised what can interfere with capturing it, not only because it is extremely quiet, but because refrigerators are keeping your milk cold, cars drive through the neighborhood, and the guy down the street is mowing his unruly spring fescue.
And then there's the cat. Officially Mabel, functionally "Squink," who picks the most inopportune times to get very mouthy about the cat food we buy for her. On mic. And as much as I love her, those are the moments I want to worship her FROM AFAR.
More as the final editing takes place. Peace.
Just because it's audio only doesn't mean the images displayed on YouTube can't be pretty....
