Post by La Editor on Jan 26, 2009 6:21:00 GMT
Hullo, thar! So, I've had this idea for a while and ran it by Tasha, and she liked it, so I thought I'd put up a thread for it. =D I'm hoping you guys will like it, too, but feel free to go 'stfu, La,' at anytime. (I'm totally down with 'you're a genius, La, I'm going to buy you a lifetime supply of sour gummy worms,' too.)
My idea is that, when the new site rolls around, there could be a section for 'teaser' audio dubs of the winning stories from each category.
I think this would just be plain fun, and would be beneficial to the GA because a) it's great advertising, and b) it'd draw in more people to join, and maybe even inspire people to, well, write better fanfic. =P I thought we could start with the 2007 winners (because, y'know, they're already there and all, and it just wouldn't feel right not acknowledging those gems). Given that we could get permission to record all sixteen stories, we would dub roughly the first 2000 words (after looking through each story, it just magically seemed to work out that way) of each.
I've thought it through, and it'd work something like this:
Let's see... that about covers all of the initial things I wanted to put out there. I really think it'd be a fun thing to do, and I like the idea of everyone working together on something for the GA, especially after our metaphorical puppies were kicked in their collective faces and a rain cloud of Cloudy-emo-ness has been following us like the lamest stench of rotting milk. (I feel so eloquent.)
So, uhh, comments, ideas? (I might've missed some stuff, my pillow has been calling for the past hour.) It'd take a lot of work, but I think we can pull it off.
My idea is that, when the new site rolls around, there could be a section for 'teaser' audio dubs of the winning stories from each category.
I think this would just be plain fun, and would be beneficial to the GA because a) it's great advertising, and b) it'd draw in more people to join, and maybe even inspire people to, well, write better fanfic. =P I thought we could start with the 2007 winners (because, y'know, they're already there and all, and it just wouldn't feel right not acknowledging those gems). Given that we could get permission to record all sixteen stories, we would dub roughly the first 2000 words (after looking through each story, it just magically seemed to work out that way) of each.
I've thought it through, and it'd work something like this:
- In order to cast the multitude of voices we would need, I believe that the Voice Acting Alliance would be a good place to host the auditions. The reason for this is because they have a nifty little board exactly for the purpose of holding auditions,
it's giant advertising,and that way people from there as well as the GA could audition for parts. In my excitement, I've got the auditions page almost fully written, and it will look something like this - I'm making it fairly extensive, like Shudo-Ranmaru's example is. - Many stories are written from third-person, and there are two ways to approach this: a) have the character whose thoughts are reflected most narrate it or b) have a non-character narrator. I very much like both - what are your opinions? Tasha mentioned that for people who can't audition for characters, they could be narrators, which I really like. I was thinking we could maybe even incorporate both options: Pied Flycatcher's Mercenaries is a story I would love to hear narrated by a normal voice, and Galaxia Alpha's there are three words in 'i love you' is a story I've always imagined Cloud speaking. Thoughts?
- I'd be fine with mixing the actual dubs (it's my own scheme, so I figured it'd be pretty lame to dump the boring part on someone else), and I consider myself fairly skilled at using my audio editing program. It's mainly making sure each line from every person is the same quality and at the same noise level, putting them in the right order on the same track, and saving it to mp3 to upload. (Then there's the whole bit with hounding people like no other to get lines finished and missing lines recorded, but that's a whole other can of worms. Eugh.) Also, Tasha said she'd talk to Hannah (<3 for this lady who looks like Cissnei) and they might possibly be able to get an 'inline audio player' up so we wouldn't have to link back to Snapvine or anything.
- From what I figure, the time line would be like this: it'd take three weeks for auditioning; one week for casting (I think that there should be a team to look over the auditions and deliberate on a cast); three weeks for lines to come in; and one to two weeks for them all to be mixed. The whole thing would take roughly two to three months with allowance for late lines, extending auditions by a week, casting taking longer, mixing taking longer etc.
Let's see... that about covers all of the initial things I wanted to put out there. I really think it'd be a fun thing to do, and I like the idea of everyone working together on something for the GA, especially after our metaphorical puppies were kicked in their collective faces and a rain cloud of Cloudy-emo-ness has been following us like the lamest stench of rotting milk. (I feel so eloquent.)
So, uhh, comments, ideas? (I might've missed some stuff, my pillow has been calling for the past hour.) It'd take a lot of work, but I think we can pull it off.