Day 1, Track 3

[cantarina]

Welcome to Track 3!

To check-in, all you need to do is leave a comment on this post stating how many minutes you spend podficcing on November 1st. You're also encouraged to let us know what you're working on, what made you smile and what made you want to bang your head against the wall, and to start up discussion with your fellow PodMoers.

Good luck to all of you over the course of the month!

Day 1 on LiveJournal

Comments

Nov 1: 40/15m

[glittertine]

total: ~40 minutes
goal: 15 minutes

actually recording: ~10 minutes
editing: ~20 minutes
agonising over wording of permission emails: ~10 minutes

Fandom: Lewis

The reason why I often don't even start recording is that I suck at asking for permission. I have so many authors friended who hate podfic for one reason or another that I'm always shying away from even asking. So to outsmart myself, I picked a very short story so that I'd be able to finish recording and editing in one day, and allowed myself to ask for permission after recording, even if that means the podfic will never leave my harddrive unless the author gives permission. Not politically correct, I know, but I desperately wanted to start today and in my current minuscule fandom, rather than in a gigantic fandom with lots of authors who've given blanket permission.

Tomorrow, I'll start on a Sherlock story with blanket permission! Or edit something from a couple of months ago.

Re: Nov 1: 40/15m

[cantarina]

And I thought it was discouraging being a fandom where no one had heard of podfic! Good luck carving our your place for it in the fandom! Hopefully, you'll find a niche of really podfic-friendly authors.

Also, if the twenty minutes spent editing spanned the entire ten minute recording, congratulations on a really stellar editing to finished production ratio! On a good day, I'm still only 3:1

Re: Nov 1: 40/15m

[glittertine]

Just added another 40 minutes! :)

Re: Nov 1: 40/15m

[paraka]

Not politically correct, I know
I wouldn't say it's not politically correct, so long as you're willing to be told no at the end. Personally, unless I'm making a podfic for charity or a challenge or something, I almost always wait till I'm finished before asking permission. Not so much because I have issues asking for permission, but because I sometimes suck at finishing what I start and feel I might let the author down if I never finish (also, I hate the idea that the author might tell another podficcer no if they asked, because I had already asked).

[flyingthesky]

Recording: 4 minutes
Editing: 7 minutes
Trying to remember where I saved the goddamn section break music: 3 minutes
Total: 15 minutes!

For, you know. A three minute clip. The nice thing is that this is for a fandom where I am legitimately the only podficcer so I know they appreciate it!

[cantarina]

It blows my mind a little bit that there's YouTube RPS, but then I remember that this online fandom and someone Rule 34'd it loooooong ago.

Is the piece finished?

[flyingthesky]

it's, um. not a fandom for the faint of heart? like, I have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that the people I write about have read my filthy porn about them. it's not that they mind, it's just that sometimes they tell me they read it and I'm like "LALALALA CAN'T HEAR YOUUUUUUUU."

it's not done! I am trying this new thing where I record a section of a story and edit it immediately after so I know if I want to re-record it or not. otherwise things languish on my harddrive.

[cantarina]

I'm... not even sure what to do with an RPF fandom whose subjects ENCOURAGE slash about themselves. Kind of awesome, though? But yeah, I can see where it's busting though boundaries for you!

I hope the new way works for you! I've been fussing with recording and editing styles lately too. I have waaaay too many WIPs languishing.

[dodificus]

Recording: 23 minutes
Goal: 20 minutes

I'm working on a huge story from The Faculty, I've wanted to record it for aaaages so I'm glad this is motivating me to finally do it:)

[sophinisba]

ARE YOU DOING VOID BB?

[dodificus]

*looks shifty*

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

[sophinisba]

OMG OMG.

[glittertine]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

+OMG!

[dodificus]

ahahaha, I'm so glad I'm not the only one excited about this:DDDD

[glittertine]

"excited" doesn't cover it. :D :D :D Go you for taking that on!!

[dodificus]

You have an icon and everything!

[greedy_dancer]

Omg!! Void!!

[via_ostiense]

A half hour! 20 min recording, 10 min editing.

[cantarina]

Awesome start! Congratulations, Via :D

[via_ostiense]

Thank you!

[sophinisba]

60 minutes!

A little more than half an hour on admin-y stuff like posting to a comm and asking for author permission. Got permission and did the first half hour of recording, but a little disappointed that I didn't get through as much of the fic as I'd expected to.

[cantarina]

An hour's worth of work overall is still nothing to sneeze at! Congrats! What fandom are you recording the new story in?

[sophinisba]

New story is Harry Potter. I've done the fandom once or twice before but this is my first time doing next gen characters, meaning I have no idea what they look or sound like (other than that they're British, which I can't do). It's actually kind of fun, coming up with different speaking patterns for the characters, but it is taking a little extra time and effort.

[cantarina]

You mentioned this on Twitter, didn't you? Sounds like a fun experiment.

[idella]

10 minutes of recording!

[cantarina]

That's the way to start the month off right! Congratulations :D

[idella]

Thanks! How was your first day?

[cantarina]

I'm actually doing WriSoMiFu this month (writing, not podfic) in an effort to get caught up on my coursework. Day 1 could have gone better! But there's always today to start fresh :)

[idella]

That looks like an awesome comm - I'll have to keep that in mind for next year. Good luck. :)

[sylvaine]

10 minutes of recording. Of course, I'm probably scrapping it because I sped up way too much again halfway through. Sigh. At least it's only a short fic.

[cantarina]

Hey, practice runs are valuable too. I had all sorts of technical issues with my first podfic and wound up recording the thing three times, but I think that it really benefited from that process. Go go you!

[heard_the_owl]

I FORGOT TO LOG! /is off to a great start
^_^;;

25 minutes of practice reading and note taking

I didn't record any of it, just made infection/breathing notes as my lovely daughter scolded me while I was reading her bedtime story, "Not like that! Like a good Mommy!"
My voice is on the outs and I was not giving Dr. Seuss the emotional gravitas "Green Eggs and Ham" deserves! The horror!
So, yeah. No podfic recording for bad mommies.