Post by Systemcat on Dec 24, 2015 17:48:34 GMT -6
Originally I was going to treat this section as being just meant for the Iron and Steel comic series, but due to one question and one separate thread, I'm going to also use it for the AU in general.
Guys, to any of you who enjoy my fan fiction, I'd like to tell you why I make these audio adaptions, and what inspires their renderings to come out as they do.
When I knew the first story was coming to being the length of a short novel, I decided since with long fan fiction stories by other authors I listen to their work as audio. I thought why not do that to my own work and save people the effort of running it through their local text-to-speech software? A decade ago I got introduced to reading fan fiction and a little while into that introduction I started using the first version of Text-A-Loud to listen to people's stories on the go. Now fast forward to earlier this year, knowing the project before me, I purchased the most recent version of the software. But to spare people a hard to understand computer generated voice if one is not familiar with hearing it. I listened to many different computer voices for sale and picked one I'd run over a segment of the first story to confirm if the voice sounded ok in reading it. The total cost being I think 71 dollars between software and added voice.
But I wanted the audio book also to be reminiscent of what Simon & Schuster does with it's audio books. My main thought of example being how they do their Star Trek related ones. Music & sound effects fitting to the air of whatever is being done in the story at that moment in the story. Another influence added into this line of creative thinking. Remembering a cartoon I had not seen since I was a little kid. Disney's Peter and the Wolf with it's explanation in front of the story telling to which instrument represented which character.
Using these examples I went to a royalty free music site and downloaded every track I could peg down to a scene in the first story. In the beginning the tracks even had side labeling done by me to identify what they represented in the story. This stopped by the second story, but I held on to what vibe I felt each track carried. For the second story I also created by synthesizer sound effects for the story. Only one sound effect in that story came from a royalty free site for it's use.
By the time I was writing the third story I decided since the third was an event in my book wrapping up the trilogy. I should get a voice actor to do the reading and not use the software bought months back. Originally an online/offline friend was going to do this, but he forgot about the matter quickly. That's when I turned to a site named "Casting Call". But even though the story got two volunteers, neither was serious about the job. The reader role in that case was agreed to be split between a female and male speaker. The guy for the main story, the lady for Penny's sub-story. When it was clear these two from Casting Call didn't mean to follow through with their word. I turned to a different site named Voice123. That's of course where I met Samuel Hall, the man who did all the reading for the third story. While he claimed he was into the Inspector Gadget fandom, given he never voiced a review after doing the work. I have the feeling he did not like the story. Likely due to it being alternate universe based is my guess.
With this third story being different from the first two in having been read live instead of having been read by computer. It is also the first time I have ever purchased personal music license rights to a piece. This piece only plays once during the whole story but I think it fits it's one placement.
So if you encounter any of these adaptions be it on YouTube or DeviantART. Please please say your thoughts after listening to them. No blind faves on DeviantART either. It took me three days to make the first, a week in the case of the second, and months in the case of the third.
Guys, to any of you who enjoy my fan fiction, I'd like to tell you why I make these audio adaptions, and what inspires their renderings to come out as they do.
When I knew the first story was coming to being the length of a short novel, I decided since with long fan fiction stories by other authors I listen to their work as audio. I thought why not do that to my own work and save people the effort of running it through their local text-to-speech software? A decade ago I got introduced to reading fan fiction and a little while into that introduction I started using the first version of Text-A-Loud to listen to people's stories on the go. Now fast forward to earlier this year, knowing the project before me, I purchased the most recent version of the software. But to spare people a hard to understand computer generated voice if one is not familiar with hearing it. I listened to many different computer voices for sale and picked one I'd run over a segment of the first story to confirm if the voice sounded ok in reading it. The total cost being I think 71 dollars between software and added voice.
But I wanted the audio book also to be reminiscent of what Simon & Schuster does with it's audio books. My main thought of example being how they do their Star Trek related ones. Music & sound effects fitting to the air of whatever is being done in the story at that moment in the story. Another influence added into this line of creative thinking. Remembering a cartoon I had not seen since I was a little kid. Disney's Peter and the Wolf with it's explanation in front of the story telling to which instrument represented which character.
Using these examples I went to a royalty free music site and downloaded every track I could peg down to a scene in the first story. In the beginning the tracks even had side labeling done by me to identify what they represented in the story. This stopped by the second story, but I held on to what vibe I felt each track carried. For the second story I also created by synthesizer sound effects for the story. Only one sound effect in that story came from a royalty free site for it's use.
By the time I was writing the third story I decided since the third was an event in my book wrapping up the trilogy. I should get a voice actor to do the reading and not use the software bought months back. Originally an online/offline friend was going to do this, but he forgot about the matter quickly. That's when I turned to a site named "Casting Call". But even though the story got two volunteers, neither was serious about the job. The reader role in that case was agreed to be split between a female and male speaker. The guy for the main story, the lady for Penny's sub-story. When it was clear these two from Casting Call didn't mean to follow through with their word. I turned to a different site named Voice123. That's of course where I met Samuel Hall, the man who did all the reading for the third story. While he claimed he was into the Inspector Gadget fandom, given he never voiced a review after doing the work. I have the feeling he did not like the story. Likely due to it being alternate universe based is my guess.
With this third story being different from the first two in having been read live instead of having been read by computer. It is also the first time I have ever purchased personal music license rights to a piece. This piece only plays once during the whole story but I think it fits it's one placement.
So if you encounter any of these adaptions be it on YouTube or DeviantART. Please please say your thoughts after listening to them. No blind faves on DeviantART either. It took me three days to make the first, a week in the case of the second, and months in the case of the third.