Sherlock BBC Podfic: Terms of Endearment

[fennishjournal]

Titel: Terms of Endearment
Author: fennishjournal
Author: fennishjournal
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Pairing: Sherlock/John/Lestrade
Summary: “Do you think,” John asks, “he might have drugged himself again?”
It's a valid question. They haven't been attacked with psychoactive mist or the like in a while but Sherlock is perfectly capable of accidentally creating and ingesting his own mood-altering chemicals.
Warning (highlight to read f. spoilery warnings):Reference to canon-typical violence. Also, gross sappiness!
Text: Terms of Endearment On DW | On LJ | on AO3
Length of Podfic: 00:21:00
Link At the Audiofic archive | On AO3

As this is my first podfic, I would love some constructive criticism!

Comments

[cybel]

Welcome to amplificathon!

I've made you a reader tag on both coms. :-)

[fennishjournal]

Thank you, darling! I hope I will get a lot of use out of them. :-D

[starduchess]

Very nice. You had good sound quality, no spikes, medium volume, no wackiness in the audio wave, and excellent music usage. I really enjoyed your coughing with Sally's voice, but I did feel that Sherlock's voice was too harsh, too gruff, but that is a personal opinion. You might want to watch your diction when doing the character voices; I felt a little bit was slurred when you went into Greg's voice. Your narration voice was fine, though.

The header intro is a matter of personal style, but I don't like having warnings and summary and author's notes, etc, at the beginning of my podfics. I don't think they are needed (unless you are warning for real triggers like cutting or non-con) and tend to weigh the podfic down. Just get to the story already. (Some people disagree with me on this; they like having the summary stated in the podfic in case they've forgotten what the story was about, so it is still up to you what you include in the intro.)

Yay for a new podficcer!

[fennishjournal]

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a thoughtful and constructive comment! It's precisely the kind of feedback I was hoping for and so very useful for me, as I'm figuring out the ropes. :-)

I don't think I will be doing voices in future podfics. It's something I had been dubious about and you confirmed my impression that I'm better off just leaving that alone. And yeah, the header seems way too long, now that I think about.

Incidentally, do you know where I might find willing betas for future podfics? I think that especially at the beginning it would be helpful to have a second pair of ears.