Huh. Better.
May. 29th, 2018 07:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaixoSat down this morning, watched how professional audio readers go about breathing while reading and decided to change up my reading/breathing techniques for a bit. The audio is so much better and smoother. I mean, there are too many gaps in spaces, but I can make them shorter.
But the audio sounds better. I’m not there yet with a narrative rhythm, but structurally and technically, the podfic feels better. Not so claustrophobic and not so rushed.
So, a hiccough, this podfic I did yesterday, I gave the writer a different name (she has on her Tumblr x but on closer inspection it is y). So I will have to tape the name in track two and then splice it in track one. The terrible thing is, my voice is going to sound so different.
Never mind.
I digress.
Now that I’m getting accustomed to the technicalities demanded (it’s been surprisingly easier in Audacity than I thought, but that’s for another post), I’m trying to cultivate a reading style.
It’s easier to do it in poetry, because the structure of the reading guides you, be it a haiku or iambic pentameter. Or the techniques employed, including but not limited to onomatopoeia, assonance or rhyme. Or, if in doubt, just be solemn and sing it out.
In prose, it’s a challenge, especially if you’re not reading children’s books. With children’s books you can allow your voice to be all bright and exaggerated tones. With adult prose, a bit of nuance is needed.
A lot of professional readers seem to read the work before they start narrating. Which… is nice and professional, I guess. At the moment, I don’t have the time to read through, highlight people’s voices and be ‘in control’ of the story (because they already know which is what).
It’s a hobby, and an experiment, and after 15 podfics (the aim, but I might hit 12 if permissions don’t come through), I might need a break, honestly.
In addition, podfic bit more of an oxygen suck in terms of time than I thought. The technicalities (pre and post recording processes) are really demanding. For every new skill I get under my belt, there’s another one to know, and you have to know it quickly (or so I’ve found? Like, I learn to use the shift tool, then realise I need to know what Shift+ R is in order to do a noise patch because I’ve ruined the writer’s name up thread).
It probably doesn’t help that the fics I’m looking at are at least 9k long in this stage.
Anyway, I’m going to edit this podfic. This is the one with the first process of edits (basic edits as I go, and now I’m doing a second sweep of edits in terms of erasing the transitions, looking at amending offset, cleaning up the audio, et al).
If you’ve read this far, how do you approach your edits? In the sense of say, are you a completist in terms of say, once you start your edits, you’re sticking with the product until done? Or do you just record in lots and then edit in lots?
But the audio sounds better. I’m not there yet with a narrative rhythm, but structurally and technically, the podfic feels better. Not so claustrophobic and not so rushed.
So, a hiccough, this podfic I did yesterday, I gave the writer a different name (she has on her Tumblr x but on closer inspection it is y). So I will have to tape the name in track two and then splice it in track one. The terrible thing is, my voice is going to sound so different.
Never mind.
I digress.
Now that I’m getting accustomed to the technicalities demanded (it’s been surprisingly easier in Audacity than I thought, but that’s for another post), I’m trying to cultivate a reading style.
It’s easier to do it in poetry, because the structure of the reading guides you, be it a haiku or iambic pentameter. Or the techniques employed, including but not limited to onomatopoeia, assonance or rhyme. Or, if in doubt, just be solemn and sing it out.
In prose, it’s a challenge, especially if you’re not reading children’s books. With children’s books you can allow your voice to be all bright and exaggerated tones. With adult prose, a bit of nuance is needed.
A lot of professional readers seem to read the work before they start narrating. Which… is nice and professional, I guess. At the moment, I don’t have the time to read through, highlight people’s voices and be ‘in control’ of the story (because they already know which is what).
It’s a hobby, and an experiment, and after 15 podfics (the aim, but I might hit 12 if permissions don’t come through), I might need a break, honestly.
In addition, podfic bit more of an oxygen suck in terms of time than I thought. The technicalities (pre and post recording processes) are really demanding. For every new skill I get under my belt, there’s another one to know, and you have to know it quickly (or so I’ve found? Like, I learn to use the shift tool, then realise I need to know what Shift+ R is in order to do a noise patch because I’ve ruined the writer’s name up thread).
It probably doesn’t help that the fics I’m looking at are at least 9k long in this stage.
Anyway, I’m going to edit this podfic. This is the one with the first process of edits (basic edits as I go, and now I’m doing a second sweep of edits in terms of erasing the transitions, looking at amending offset, cleaning up the audio, et al).
If you’ve read this far, how do you approach your edits? In the sense of say, are you a completist in terms of say, once you start your edits, you’re sticking with the product until done? Or do you just record in lots and then edit in lots?
