Richard's Animorphs Forum
RAF Section => RAF Projects => The Animorphs Audiobook Project => Topic started by: Darth Revan on April 03, 2009, 11:07:40 PM
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There are some passages that describe sounds in the background. (i.e. screams, chaos, etc.)
Are those things going to be reflected?
There's a scene in book 16, (I know I'm jumping ahead) Jake says his father yells up something is on TV, should i record something to show that?
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I'm pretty sure yes... assuming we can make it work without worrying about the copyright problem any more than we already are...
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Our approach to copyright is the standard approach for a fan project: hope the publisher doesn't complain. Maybe, just maybe it would be possible to get permission from Scholastic; do we have any business-major RAFians who have an idea how?
On topic, I'm not real warm on the idea of sound effects, they're more a technique of radio theater than audio books. The basic problem is that lots of text interferes with the flow of the sound effects, and sound effects interfere with the flow of text.
Another way to look at this incompatibility is to compare watching a movie to reading a book. When I read, my mental focus isn't on the language as much as the story. If the narration is good, it gets out of the way. In contrast, cinema or theater (including audio theater), the content is the story. There's very little if any narration, dialog is direct (no "he said" tags), sound effects and either visual presentation or unnatural dialog are used to convey action. ("'Did you see that?' 'He got hit by a train!' 'How tragic!'" Theater can get really silly.)
That said, KA makes use of a lot of onomatopoeia that could be cleanly replaced with sound-effects. ("Tzzaap"! "Tseeeer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buteo_jamaicensis#Sound_effect_clich.C3.A9)", etc.)
Background sounds, I'm pretty sure, would only get in the way.
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oh... I think I may have mixed up background sounds and sound effects... background sounds I'm not really sure (or at least not until wild said something)...
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no prob. I was just wondering if i should record those moments.
I agree wholely on that decision. it would just muddy up the narrative.
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I was thinking just that, replace the onomatopoeia, but not the other noises. Mostly so I don't have to make noises.
Off-topic completely: yesterday I teched for a professional shakespeare company who performed at our school. Vocal warm-ups are fun to watch.
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They are, they're funn as hell too.
My mom sang for a band, and when she would warm up her voice, it sounded funny but cool too.
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definitely try not to make it too confusing.
a few dracon beam noises or a hawk scream would be fine, but anything else would be over-the-top.
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i concur