Would There Ever Be a Possibility...?

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

And was that squeking of Frodo supposed to be an epigony of my fantastic and original Frodo?

No. As a matter of fact, her voice is really like that.

[THE Ka]

I wish I could listen sooo much, but sadly the audio is missing on my computer (it crashed a few months ago, I've been rebuilding the drivers and cards... No fun a'tall.), so my project now has been to relocate the audio component for the computer, which may take a bit, but should happen.

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Also the Ka should absolutely throw us a line or two with her male-acting!

I've been practicing over the past week, and actually hoping my throat cold holds out so I don't make it sound as if anyone the fellowship bumps into is pulling multiple Dernhelm(s).... Eventually...

~ Ka

[MatthewM]

I'm at school right now so I can't listen yet but I can't wait to hear this!

[Nogrod]

As any discussion here will take time should we slowly start discussing about the part or chapter we should go for with a first "real" trial?

I'll post those clips of both Mac and Gwath soon into the xanga so you can hear them too. Sadly Gwath's mike is inbuilt to the computer and one really can hear it - he has nice voice and his pronounciation is just lovely.

So if you Matthew and Gwath could still look around for possibilites of fex. lending a mike from school / friend / friend's friend or something? Others I think have no problem.

And if there's no solution to Matthew's and Gwath's problems I would suggest we just take them in and suffer the quality of the recording equipment for the sake of getting two really good actors and friends in.

And the rest just keep on sending me your clips! Send me a PM to get my gmail -account address.

And let's go on suggesting a suitable chapter to try!

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Thanks for the link, and most of all, for letting us hear the results of your live reading! It was very enjoyable, what with the accents, wolves, and all. I'm reminded of the live chat readings we did several years ago - one of the highlights of my Downs experience! Two posh Brit accents doing the two wizards and a wonderful Gollum - great stuff! Participants from several countries on two continents were united by the magic of the internet.

Right now, I don't have time for anything else than my current Tolkien project, so I can't join in. But I look forward to hearing more as your project proceeds...

[Gwathagor]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

So if you Matthew and Gwath could still look around for possibilites of fex. lending a mike from school / friend / friend's friend or something? Others I think have no problem.

I'll work on it.

[Nogrod]

If and when this is going to take some time we should also start to think about the sound effects and possible music stuff as well?

I do not think we will be such wizards that we could get any chapter fully composed but we might go for some interludes - or if the narration in the storyline calls for music then why not try to add some background music then? Someone said s/he would be happy to do some. After we decide on the chapter let's hear from you (McCaber that was?). I could also do some if needed. And anyone having ideas do then come forwards!


Making of sound effects has been something I have loved from very early on. I remember we made a kind of "Radio dramas" with my little sister back in the late seventies / early eighties (when I was ten+!) and I was already then most interested in trying to find the way to make the sounds even if the equipment at that time were quite primitive (we had a Tandberg reel-to-reel and a C-cassette radiorecorder back then and we recorded the effects on one, then played it and acted on it recording on the other one).

But if we'll really decide to go on with this project I'd have one more reason to invest some money to a decent digital audio recorder with which I could start experimenting with different sound effects (I've dreamt about it for a long time! Now I might have a reason to invest in it!). During the summer we could go to our summer cottage where the noises of the city would not interfere and we might record stuff like basic walking of a group in ME envirovenments, the howl of the wind, shooting of arrows, any watery noises (our cottage is by a lake) or whatever we need. And surely that would make us try the limits of our creativity at home! I mean the opening of the doors of Moria were not bad in our latest...

If we can avoid using the sfx cd's the better. The more we do ourselves the better. The more people are involved the better.

So thoughts on the chapter we should go for?

So thoughts on who sholud then play whom?

So thoughts on if we need music there and who should try making it?

So thoughts in possible sound effects we'd need in that chapter?


And if someone's thinking it: this is no closed society! Everyone is welcome whatever s/he can bring to this effort! Remember this is not dead serious! But surely we do our best...

[MatthewM]

How about The Ring Goes South or A Journey in the Dark, like you have recorded? Or maybe Farewell to Lorien?

Great job Downers on A Journey in the Dark! Really awesome to see this coming together!

[Gwathagor]

My vote goes to "The Ring Goes South." There is a great deal of dialogue in that particular chapter.

[Thinlómien]

Has anybody counted how many actors we have? That might affect the choice...

And as no one seems to be willing to guess, I'm going to reveal the cast of our audio clip before it's totally forgotten.

Nogrod is Gandalf.

Brinn is the narrator and Sam.

Aganzir is Frodo.

Volo is Gimli and Pippin.

A Little Green is Legolas and Merry.

I'm Boromir and Bill the Pony.

And by the way, you can't understand the brilliance of Greenie's performance unless you've heard Swedish.