Wanna make a Who audio?

[aralias]

A small group of Doctor Who fans are currently attempting to write and produce a series of audios based on the BBC Webcast, Scream of the Shalka (written by Paul Cornell, starring Richard E. Grant as the Doctor and Sophie Okonedo/Liz X as his companion Alison). It’s based heavily on the format established by our beloved Big Finish (4 x 24 minute

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[dragonofmemory]

I just wanted to say the image is absolutely adorable. Seriously, I'm beyond squeeing right now.

Sadly, I have no experience in any of these areas. However, I can cheer you guys on for all I'm worth?

[x_los]

Thanks, cheering is much appreciated!

[sinloi]

Okay, lurky the lurker here, but I have experience in several of the categories listed, as well as voice acting (though I am an American who isn't quite sure of her English accent skills), and I would love to contribute something to this fandom besides crappy eleventy kink anon posts. However, my computer is currently out of my possession and, while I should have it back by september, it is still possible I won't. Put me down as a possible contributor, but please be aware I might fall through.

And, I feel I should add how brilliant this idea is! Even if I am unable to add anything, this will be utterly awesome when it's finished.

[x_los]

Hi-another team member here. Thanks for volunteering re: the acting, keep watching this space and we'll have the post for that where you can detail what you'd be interested in doing in a week or two. Re: the computer stuff, we'll give your info to the production people, and you can contact them if you are indeed available. Sounds good!

[x_los]

Since you expressed interest in acting and/or production, please check out the links here ( http://shalkastories.livejournal.com/24481.html ) and here ( http://shalkastories.livejournal.com/24595.html ) for more details. Thanks!

[tweedymcgee]

HOLY CRAPSTICKS, this is the coolest.

I'm OK at Audacity, and more than willing to be a pinch-hitter on sound editing, if y'all have any need for one. (As in: I have trouble making time commitments weeks and months ahead, but if you have a piece of work you need done right away, feel free to holler and I'll take it if I can.)

I don't know if you're looking to spread the word far and wide, but there are a lot of BFA fans at the brb_gallifrey comm that might be psyched about this.

[x_los]

Hi-another team member here. We'll keep the nature of your time commitment involved, but we'd be very grateful for your help! Having production pinch-hitters seems very wise.

I don't really know brb_gallifrey, why them particularly? We could indeed spread the word there if it's the sort of thing they might be interested in and if we don't have a huge number of techie responses...

[tweedymcgee]

Cool. Cool cool cool.

It's a closed comm, mostly for very unserious RP and macros and general ridiculousness. It's not really audio-oriented, it just happens to be run by a bunch of huge BFA fans.

Anyway, something to keep in mind.

[prof_pangaea]

wouldn't "cutting together audio streams" fall under the purview of "directing", at its core at least? who's writing the episodes? would it be possible to read a sample script before signing up?

the more people you get involved the more difficult it will be for your production manager to wrangle everyone and their commitments, but i'm sure you know that.

i am interested (music and sound effects, i think), but definitely have a lot of questions and want to know whose vision this really is, if that makes sense. when the audio visuals began it was mostly nick briggs, bill baggs, and then gary russell - lots of fans were involved at one time or another but they were the central guiding force. so who is guiding this? (other than yourself, i assume!)

in any case, this sounds very awesome. lots of luck!

[bagheera_san]

Part of cutting audios together is just the rather simple task of removing any bits that don't belong - pauses, coughing, weird background noises etc. Also, at present our method of recording is this: all actors in a scene are in skype chat and read their parts as if they're on stage together. This means an individual voice actor's tape has pauses where the other actors are speaking, because you only record your own voice (the others you hear only through your headphones). So cutting also involves removing those lengthy pauses and paring down a tape to just the relevant bits.

So it's not really part of directing as such.

The scripts are (at this point) written by individual authors per episode, at the moment we have 7, and I assume the scripts will be released at some point...

[x_los]

Hi-another team member here

[bessyboo]

Okay. OKAY

[x_los]

Hi-another team member here.

Re: podfic comms, that sounds excellent, thanks!

Also, thanks for your interest, your experience is seriously impressive. We'll be contacting you shortly via pm.