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YAY!! I'll get on it as soon as I have access to a microphone; I've got one at home but I'm on holiday. (Of course, get me near internet access and of course I'll check my favorite sites )

I thought the second was me at a different tone, but never mind.




Thank you; can't wait to see this finished.

EDIT: Music-wise, "cheeky" music like Donna's Theme or A Noble Girl About Town would work for the Doctors-meet-and-argue scene.

I second that music idea!

Bear in mind that unlike old-series composers, Murray Gold works to themes and not incidents. This may limit the amount of usable music, since the primary themes get repeated a lot anyway from episode to episode, plus everyone will know already which theme comes from where. You'll be scoring a mood, not highlighting an event.

Just as an example, compare the music used in an earlier Tom & Jerry or Roadrunner short to that of, say, a Scooby Doo episode. One of them is purely incidental, unique to each cartoon, which punctuates every action. The other is thematic background, which doesn't; instead you have 'chase' music, 'spooky' music, 'malt shop' music, 'split up and search for clues', 'Shaggy and Scooby wear silly disguises', and so forth. It's going to be up to the sound designer here which kind of effect is warranted, and what is most useable.

About the music, we could still use Murray Gold theams if the tracks used were snippets from the songs on the cd/mp3. (But be careful of copyright laws . )

um - well, the whole thing here is pretty much fandom tiptoeing past copy right laws with one eye closed and the other focused on something the goal of doing something fun and grand with our favorite characters

But I imagine most scenes, when acted out, could only use snippets anyway, to keep the mood music, and a few effects, matching the story.

And that's where I also ponder over Murray's suitability for an audio project; his music is a very loud, *visual* style as befits modern, bombastic television. It stands up by itself *as* music - meaning, I can't help thinking whatever we do with it, it's likely to overwhelm everything else.

Radio is a more intimate medium than television because you can't apply the old adage of 'show, don't tell'. When Barry Letts wrote The Ghosts Of N-Space and particularly The Paradise Of Death, he tried to 'big' up the setting with huge great imaginative scenes, but couldn't find any way of carrying that over to the audience except by Sarah Jane acting as our eyes and ears and literally narrating everything as it happened in a hugely tatty info-dump way. Nick Briggs on the other hand got around this problem rather better in his Dalek Empire / Dalek War series by concentrating on what individual characters were doing during and after a battle, rather than the battle itself. If things needed to explode, then he would cut to the commanders, the people giving the orders whom by definition would be the ones to explain what they were doing.

Try this little exercise. Take an episode of new-series Doctor Who, and an episode of the old series. Pick any new one you like, but to be scrupulously fair with the old one, choose a Patrick Troughton episode scored by Dudley Simpson when he was also working with themes (Dudley didn't get to work from each taped episode directly until the 70s). Don't actually watch them, but play them in the background while you work on something else. See which one you can follow this way more easily and doesn't distract you as much.

All right, I get the point. Maybe you're right. But i think we should really concentrate on getting at least the first part's roles casted.

Well if we are going to record in order then we need to get the (main 10) Doctors cast first then the companions.

I appreciate that a few of the side characters are locked (particularly myself as Daleks & Cybermen), so would it be worth looking into recording scenes with the characters we have first?

If need be we can use "placeholder" voices on the uncast characters until they are locked and we can drop them in later.

I agree. We need at least the basic charectors voiced as soon as possible. According to previous posts, Six has been casted, and auditions for Two and Eight are being prepared.

By the way, in that K9 ad, was the Romana comment actually the real actress? (The music in that sounded SO Hitchikers!)

I'm already the placeholder. Basically, I'm all the other characters until further notice.

Oh, and Mass? You're the Eighth Doctor, too.

Cast list as of now:
Ryan - Sixth Doctor and Commander Maxil
Mass - Eighth Doctor, Cybermen, Imperial Daleks, Davros, one of the K-9 units
Cleverest Name - Peri (almost; do send that other sample when you're back at home)
Eala Dubhe Sidhe - Slaan, Exaar, the Draconian Ambassador, one of the K-9 units

Don't be afraid to ask for double roles, etc. Also looking forward to more newcomers!

HAPPY DANCE!!!!

Guess ill keep working on the Master voice then lol

Hang on, the Draconian ambassador? Not the Thoros Betan ambassador? I hardly did anything with the Draconian voice, just three words - it was the Mentor that was the other I was going for...



It was. It's the recap music to episode four of the TV Hitchhiker's, arranged to fit the scene. Lalla Ward's quote there comes from the DVD commentary for The Leisure Hive, when she's frumping at director Lovett Bickford and script editor Christopher H Bidmead about how everyone else wanted shot of the K-9 prop except her.

I think we should create a YouTube casting call video, like Mass's ComixBlog ads. If it is posted on the main page like those were it'll bring more attention to this project.

That sounds like a good idea if somone is up for that!

Id love to make more vids! My laptop is in the shop at the moment (im on the fiance's right now), but once its back ill throw something together.... i have a funny idea in my head right now actually....