Whew, I was editing this one right up to the last day. It varies from the HPMoR episodes in several regards. Most notably, I\u2019ve adopted a less \u201cannouncer\u201d-like voice for narration, which I feel is better. I\u2019ll keep it, but it makes the reading more energy-intensive for me, as it doesn\u2019t come naturally. I guess I naturally tend to have a declaiming tone. Good for teaching\/instructing perhaps, but not so good for storytelling.<\/p>\n
Also of note \u2013 the inclusion of general background music. Previously I\u2019d only ever done music for very specific scenes were I already had a soundtrack in my head. But lately I\u2019ve been listening to Welcome to Night Vale<\/a>, and they use background music to great <\/b>effect. It really heightens the mood of that podcast, and the mix of occasional background music and silence really makes both stand out in striking ways. I was amazed how much more time it takes to add those touches. Not only do I have to familiarize myself with a whole new collection of music*, I have to add another listen-through to listen for places to insert it, and then review to make sure it sounds alright. I\u2019m sure that with familiarity the stress level and time investment of this extra step will ease, but I was not ready for how much it would take.<\/p>\n (*I decided to only use freely available public-use sources. I\u2019m ok using bits and pieces of copyrighted songs here and there, such as for the intro\/outro. But to use the entirety of a song without permission seemed both unethical and of dubious legality)<\/p>\n (BTW, if you\u2019re not listening to Welcome to Night Vale<\/a>, you may want to give it a shot. It\u2019s a series of events that happen in a small creepy town in the desert, as relayed by their local community radio guy. There\u2019s no narrative or story development so it won\u2019t be to everyone\u2019s taste. Mainly it\u2019s cool quirkiness and mood pieces. From the pilot \u2013 \u201cThe City Council […] would like to remind everyone that dogs are not allowed in the dog park. People are not allowed in the dog park. It is possible that you will see hooded figures in the dog park. Do not approach them. Do not approach the dog park. [\u2026] The dog park will not harm you.\u201d It\u2019s like what A Prairie Home Companion would be like, if it was supernatural, and didn\u2019t suck.)<\/p>\n Also I removed the use of the Page-Flip sound for breaks. I\u2019d gotten so used to them after all this time that not<\/i> hearing them was actually startling. I\u2019ll keep it that way for Three Worlds Collide, but I really like them and they\u2019ll be back for HPMoR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whew, I was editing this one right up to the last day. It varies from the HPMoR episodes in several regards. Most notably, I\u2019ve adopted a less \u201cannouncer\u201d-like voice for narration, which I feel is better. I\u2019ll keep it, but it makes the reading more energy-intensive for me, as it\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}