Podfic feedback exchange for dodificus
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amplificathonFic: Taking Liberties
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Author: thehoyden
Reader: dodificus
Length: 47:52
Author's summary: While I do enjoy tickling the ivories for hours at a time, and have occasionally fancied that a bit of tricky finger-work was carried out so adeptly as to bring the house down, this was in the way of being a metaphor.
Link to the text: here
Link to the recording: here
I'd like to preface this by saying that I've seen exactly 10 minutes of one episode of Jeeves & Wooster, so I'm definitely not going to review the fic this is based on (though for what it's worth, I thought that the story was entertaining).
Actually, I am going to start out talking about the story, because I think it was a really good choice to podfic. All of the narration is written in Wooster's voice, so it allows dodificus to find that voice in the beginning and stick with it, which is something that she does really well. I completely bought into her Wooster. The tone was perfectly in keeping with the story, and the almost-but-not-quite-self-aware absurdness of Wooster's logic was really apparent. Good writing + good reading = win!
Dodificus' Jeeves was just as good, and the slightly deeper, much more calm voice she used worked well to distinguish Jeeves and Wooster and enhanced the characterization that was already provided by the story. Because this fic is so centered around these two characters, the voices work really well. If I have any complaints, it's that the secondary characters, though their appearances are brief, don't really get distinguishable voices of their own, so they blend into Wooster's narration. Because they appear so briefly, it doesn't really detract from the reading, but I did have to stop and think about who was speaking a couple of times.
From a technical perspective, there were these weird little sound artifacts, not quite pops and not quite crackles, at the end of the phrases, particular at the beginning. I don't know if it was breath against the microphone, or places where there were edits, or something else entirely, but it made the beginning of the next phrase difficult to understand. They seemed to get better closer to the middle of the work, though it's possible that I simply got used to them and mentally filtered them out.
I feel like the beginning was just slightly rushed for my taste, which also made some of the sentences in the first couple of paragraphs difficult to understand, but it stops being a problem somewhere between the 5th and 10th minute.
My other big criticism is that there are section breaks in the story that you can't hear in the recording, or rather, you can't consistently hear them in the recording. Sometimes the pauses are there and sometimes they aren't, so the overall effect is that they sort of seem random.
That's everything that stood out to me. Overall, I really enjoyed listening to this fic, and I might even listen to it again when I don't have to think about it quite to much.
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Author: thehoyden
Reader: dodificus
Length: 47:52
Author's summary: While I do enjoy tickling the ivories for hours at a time, and have occasionally fancied that a bit of tricky finger-work was carried out so adeptly as to bring the house down, this was in the way of being a metaphor.
Link to the text: here
Link to the recording: here
I'd like to preface this by saying that I've seen exactly 10 minutes of one episode of Jeeves & Wooster, so I'm definitely not going to review the fic this is based on (though for what it's worth, I thought that the story was entertaining).
Actually, I am going to start out talking about the story, because I think it was a really good choice to podfic. All of the narration is written in Wooster's voice, so it allows dodificus to find that voice in the beginning and stick with it, which is something that she does really well. I completely bought into her Wooster. The tone was perfectly in keeping with the story, and the almost-but-not-quite-self-aware absurdness of Wooster's logic was really apparent. Good writing + good reading = win!
Dodificus' Jeeves was just as good, and the slightly deeper, much more calm voice she used worked well to distinguish Jeeves and Wooster and enhanced the characterization that was already provided by the story. Because this fic is so centered around these two characters, the voices work really well. If I have any complaints, it's that the secondary characters, though their appearances are brief, don't really get distinguishable voices of their own, so they blend into Wooster's narration. Because they appear so briefly, it doesn't really detract from the reading, but I did have to stop and think about who was speaking a couple of times.
From a technical perspective, there were these weird little sound artifacts, not quite pops and not quite crackles, at the end of the phrases, particular at the beginning. I don't know if it was breath against the microphone, or places where there were edits, or something else entirely, but it made the beginning of the next phrase difficult to understand. They seemed to get better closer to the middle of the work, though it's possible that I simply got used to them and mentally filtered them out.
I feel like the beginning was just slightly rushed for my taste, which also made some of the sentences in the first couple of paragraphs difficult to understand, but it stops being a problem somewhere between the 5th and 10th minute.
My other big criticism is that there are section breaks in the story that you can't hear in the recording, or rather, you can't consistently hear them in the recording. Sometimes the pauses are there and sometimes they aren't, so the overall effect is that they sort of seem random.
That's everything that stood out to me. Overall, I really enjoyed listening to this fic, and I might even listen to it again when I don't have to think about it quite to much.