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Title/Text link: When Heroes Go Down (They Go Down Fast)
Author:buffyaddict13
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Gen
Length: 8:28:39
Download: mp3 or audiobook
I was actually in the midst of re-listening to the first three-quarters of this story when my assignment was delivered to my inbox, so I feel like I managed to get a decent picture of the entire piece. As you might be able to infer from “re-listening”, it’s a podfic I enjoyed a lot and I actually went back to the start to stretch the experience out a little bit before continuing on through to the end.
That being said, there were a few things that I found challenging about the choice of the piece. I really love a good, long podfic and the sprawling, rambling nature of the middle segments of the story were a perfect match to the format. The Then-Now segments came out a little bit more confusing and while I caught on to the format quickly enough at the opening (you were really good about emphasising that the words were not a part of the narrative through both tone and silence), I had a really tough time with the final chapters, when the switch back to that format was unexpected. My focus isn’t always great, which was probably a part of the problem.
I thought that the music was an effective bookends to the story, at the start in particular, where it set a tone before you’d even started reading. I actually loved all of the musical choices, which were all apt and smoothly edited into the fold. They were also used to mark out different sections of the story and while I understood that just fine, the fact that the music appeared so disparately in the middle of the text did make it feel a bit orphaned at times.
There were places where I would have also liked a slower reading of the story, if only so that there would have been more time to savour a nice turn of phrase and or some clever dialogue. It never actually went so quickly as to cause trouble in the understanding of the piece, though! I actually thought that you were really well matched to the story (your voice has a nice weight to it that was appropriate to the often-heavy subject matter) and you did a really fantastic job at differentiating the individual voices of the characters. (Jeff in particular really came to life!)
Final note: the reading is quite clean in the first two parts, but there are little mistakes which ought to have been edited out in parts three and four, largely in the form of overly long pauses and repeated lines.
Thanks for a lovely piece of podfic!
emeraldsedaiTitle/Text link: When Heroes Go Down (They Go Down Fast)
Author:
buffyaddict13Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Gen
Length: 8:28:39
Download: mp3 or audiobook
I was actually in the midst of re-listening to the first three-quarters of this story when my assignment was delivered to my inbox, so I feel like I managed to get a decent picture of the entire piece. As you might be able to infer from “re-listening”, it’s a podfic I enjoyed a lot and I actually went back to the start to stretch the experience out a little bit before continuing on through to the end.
That being said, there were a few things that I found challenging about the choice of the piece. I really love a good, long podfic and the sprawling, rambling nature of the middle segments of the story were a perfect match to the format. The Then-Now segments came out a little bit more confusing and while I caught on to the format quickly enough at the opening (you were really good about emphasising that the words were not a part of the narrative through both tone and silence), I had a really tough time with the final chapters, when the switch back to that format was unexpected. My focus isn’t always great, which was probably a part of the problem.
I thought that the music was an effective bookends to the story, at the start in particular, where it set a tone before you’d even started reading. I actually loved all of the musical choices, which were all apt and smoothly edited into the fold. They were also used to mark out different sections of the story and while I understood that just fine, the fact that the music appeared so disparately in the middle of the text did make it feel a bit orphaned at times.
There were places where I would have also liked a slower reading of the story, if only so that there would have been more time to savour a nice turn of phrase and or some clever dialogue. It never actually went so quickly as to cause trouble in the understanding of the piece, though! I actually thought that you were really well matched to the story (your voice has a nice weight to it that was appropriate to the often-heavy subject matter) and you did a really fantastic job at differentiating the individual voices of the characters. (Jeff in particular really came to life!)
Final note: the reading is quite clean in the first two parts, but there are little mistakes which ought to have been edited out in parts three and four, largely in the form of overly long pauses and repeated lines.
Thanks for a lovely piece of podfic!
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Date: 2010-02-08 11:59 pm (UTC)You and my earlier reviewer (http://nikojen.livejournal.com/55905.html?view=25953),
The editing towards the end was really rushed (to get in under the Podbang deadline), and since this was my first long piece and only my second attempt at podfic, I had no clear idea of the sheer effort good editing requires. I'm getting better at it with practice.
Experience, too, might have guided me to a different story. I love this one to bits, but I didn't realize how demanding the narrative structure was for reading aloud until I was well and truly committed and under deadline. Straight linear narratives are definitely easier.
On the music: if I had it to do over, I'd skip all but the intro and outro selections. I had an idea that the four files would be more separate somehow. Again, experience.
Anyway, thank you for spending so much time with my podfic, and for your thoughtful and helpful review. It's had the effect of encouraging me to go forward and do better--which I think is what this challenge has been all about--and I really appreciate it!
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Date: 2010-02-10 12:47 am (UTC)