Author: Eneasz

I didn’t start writing production notes until I moved HPMoR to it’s own website, around chapter 59. When I re–worked episodes 1-9 I wrote notes for them as well. Today, instead of writing a production note for this episode, I wrote notes (some of them very short) for many previous episodes.

Last week I took the week off work so I could stay home and put 40 hours into finally finishing the re-edit and polishing of earlier chapters. At last it is done! Chapters 1-9 have been redone in their entirety. Chapters 10-20 have been gone over with sandpaper and a noise filter. And every single chapter has had large sections of my poor voice work removed and replaced with valiant voice volunteers, giving a distinctive sound to many characters. Never again will anyone have to suffer through my McGonagall or Weasley Twins. Chapter 50’s Padma is now done by Amanda Grassello. In fact, over a dozen voices from early episodes have been upgraded, also including:
Ernie Macmillan
Anthony Goldstein
Auror Komodo
The Carrow Twins
Madam Hooch
Morag MacDougal
Gregory Goyle
Pansy Parkinson
Lucius Malfoy
Neville Longbottom

And of course there are still some roles available, see here if you’re interested.

*(I realize a couple lines are off… I hadn’t gotten them recorded, and for completeness I substituted a place-holder that means something very similar. These will be replaced with the correct wording in a couple weeks)

The shouts of the Wizengamot are actual recordings of Parliament in England – all from the House of Commons I believe. In retrospect, I don’t think it added anything to have the source be “authentic”, and it was fairly limiting. Much like Draco’s Colloportus idea, I got hung up on actual Parliament sounds because it seemed so clever at the time. By the time I realized I’d be better off with generic cheers/jeers I didn’t have enough time left to make the revisions. /sigh

Spending the week of this writing doing massive revision to earlier episodes. Will have lots of updated stuff next week.