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Here is a link you may find useful.
http://www.last.fm/music/Doctor+Who/30+Years+At+The+Radiophonic+Workshop
This website, http://www.last.fm, hosts some streamed audio files, in the case of the above, it's a bunch of DW special effects, 88 in total! Scroll down the page & click on the play symbol next to the description.

I must admit, I was fooled at first! Then I saw her in Blackadder's Christmas Carol... Suddenly things made more sense.



I love you. Thank you!

Now that The Ten Doctors is over and Rich is concentrating on other things (House of Paulus wooo!) I've decided to give this audio lark a go.

I sat down at my computer late monday afternoon and recorded about 3 minutes of dialogue on my own, as a test to see if I could manage the editing. Turns out I can, so I present to you the first scene:

http://rapidshare.com/files/240435418/1 ... _part1.mp3

Do bear in mind this is only a draft. I hope to have much better voices - yourvoices. It's hard trying to voice three different cockneys in one scene - and my Rose and Ace turn out sounding more masculine than my really campy Tenth Doctor.

Also, even though this runs to about three and a half minutes, a good thirty seconds of it is taken up by the theme tune, and another thirty seconds at the end is just... nature noises.

In fact this draft works more as an appeal for help - here are my totally rubbish accents, do better than me! Please! Please do audition, I need all the help I can get to make this live up to the masterpiece Rich has created.

Thanks all.

I gotta say, I was skeptical at first, that this was possible to translate to audio. Still not sure how some of it could come across without some serious rewriting, but I downloaded your test track and I really enjoyed it!

Now THIS is more how I'd like to audition--just saying actual lines from the "Ten Doctors" script, instead of the bit with auditioning by putting a clip of the character I'm trying out for saying a real line from the show, first, and then a clip of me saying _that_ line. Also I have no idea how to thread different sound files into one file like that, anyway.
Can I possibly do my audition this way, too? I would've done it a LOT earlier if I had known this was an option.

Um...mine won't have a theme song and sound effects and echoes, though. :P You're MUCH better at that kind of thing than I am, Arraitchgee. When I did the other audio play I was in, I merely recorded my actual dialogue and then the person running it did all the fancy stuff. Heh.
I also apologise ahead of time for my cheap microphone. But at least it's working again, huzzah! For the longest time it was just DEAD--the computer wouldn't recognise it--and I had no idea why...

...Notorious

I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I'd hate to think I was making a travesty out of it - taking your precious work and turning it into something... not quite the same.

As to script and rewriting, I don't think this is much of an issue. I wanted the audio drama to work as a supplement to your comic, not as a replacement. Kind of encouraging people to listen to the former while reading the latter. As such I've reached page 140 and only added three lines, without removing any (on page 37 I have a White Dalek saying "Target transferred into hyperspace!" and another replying "Impossible! Hyperdirive could not have been repaired that fast!", and in the final panel the Fourth Doctor's line becomes "Uh oh. I think we just saved a shipful of Daleks.").



Yes, I decided that I was trying to do it too professionally - and in that I was losing all the fun, especially as we're just a bunch of fans, not voice actors. So long as the characters have their own distinct voice: (I'm only using this one as an example) say your voice for Rose sounds different to whoever ends up voicing Ace, and I'll be happy. Another good example that the Tenth Doctor has to sound different enough from Drax or Sabalom Glitz, if you get my meaning. (Who'd've thought there'd be so many Londoners in space?)

I'll be handling all the "fancy stuff", as you say. I'm hoping to kick it up a notch (bam!) from this test tape, hopefully with volume differences, panning, and (most importantly of all) running sound effects! (I really can't believe I missed those out...)

Hmm- it was pretty good! Now imagine combining this with the YouTube animated version, and we've got something special

Your dream has come true M'reen. I finished making a combination video of the partial colourization by eclecticmuse and the audio test that Araitchgee put together. So now you have my video, with his audio dialogue!

However before posting it I would like your permission Araitchgee, please note that I will fully credit you in the video (as I did with ecleticmuse for her colourization) as well as the info bar on the side. You have done a marvellous job, keep up the good work!

Do I have your support in uploading this compiled video?

By all means! Do go ahead!

Thanks for the support! I uploaded the video, and I hope it is to your satisfaction. Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hifz0kHuX80

By the way if you are in need of any sound effects for your audio play, a great Doctor Who website is this:

http://www.dwwa.net/


Thanks again.

Hey, is this project still on the table?

Id love to audition as i have a background in voice work.

Id mainly like to go up for:
The Master
The Valeyard
Doc 8 (I'm from liverpool, down the road from PMcG so i only really have to adapt my accent a little)

and any other various characters (i have ring modulator settings on Audacity if that helps...)

I saw the combo vid - pretty great stuff!

I look forward to seeing this created, audio stories have become my solution to avoiding eyestrain with the bedtime novel I can't put down <g> and the animated version combined with this could only be something fantastic

Excellent! But in my first episode draft, the Master and the Valeyard don't have that many lines. However I'm sure that between us we can knock out a few dozen decent voices! Particularly with those ring modulator settings...

I'll refer you to a prior post that notes the characters in the first episode so far:

Arraitchgee, pm'd you.

Are you still auditioning?