Huge whine about the making of the fifth act (2010 podbang)
2) all in the timing
Deadlines are not for 180 000 word epics. I read at about 10 000 words an hour. Do the math, and it becomes an18 hour pod. Every minute of recording represents 3-5 minutes of input from me. magog_83 described the time to pod this aptly as: that's like having a full time job for a week!
it worked out to be longer than that too. so many things wrong with me...
3) murphy's law
i re-did the first five hours of the pod. why did i decide to do that? because i slurred far, far too much. why was i slurring? because i would get up early to commute to work, work, commute back home, eat, and then try to knuckle down and pod. of course, i was too tired to really maintain the kind of narrative voice i like - not to mention my tiredness made me unintentionally slur my words. listening back to only the first hour on the weekend, i couldn't stand it, and had to re-do it.
i really should not have, as then i went on a weekend business trip, and i lost a very precious weekend i could have cranked out pod. what did this result in? myself spending the next weekend talking to the computer all day and night, because I had no time to lose. having two apples, a mac desktop and a macbook, i can use both to record. i prefer the desktop, i like the set up a lot better, but people are constantly coming in and out, the washing machine keeps getting used and dogs are barking. i move to my macbook and use the same file, using network sharing. i moved to a quieter, less comfortable area and kept recording.
garageband crashed. that was fine. i had lost a half hour maybe, but i had saved it at the end of the last chapter. what is this funny error i'm getting now that it's booting back up? can't locate female voice track? what does that even....
silence.
i lost 6 hours of recording. even though i pressed save. why the fuck did you choose then to lose my voice? how the fuck did you even manage that?
fucking macbook.
after having a cry, i went back at it. i couldn't risk that happening again., so i then had no choice but to go back to the desktop and keep going, no matter what kind of background noise there was. no time. no more time. have to scrap break music and underlying music tracks because I couldn't afford to spend any time fiddling with volume levels, fade outs, and even choosing tracks. have a huge bout of disappointment. move on. frantically read and read and read.
the weekend is over. there's no time. that 6 hours lost really fucked me over. have no choice but resort back to initial method: work, commute, eat, pod, sleep. By calculations, there's not enough time to do everything left by the deadline. must create time: sacrifice sleep. run on empty for three days straight - work, commute, eat, pod, slur, edit, slur, fuck it, good enough, keep going, keep going, sleep/nap three hours repeat cycle.
on track finally, on the last day. reward self by taking a nap before podding the last stretch.
sleep through the night.
fuccccccck.
no help for it, go to work, commute, eat, pod. it's the end. the end! it has been reached! reward self by adding in outro music. wanted to pod drabbles connected to main story but there is now negative time, can't now, get disappointed, move on. upload the files to mediafire. file size too fucking big? fuck. research rar on mac, hate self, split files and upload to mediafire. get the first 7 files ready to go but the last 3 are taking ages. need sleep.
upload everything, mods so understanding. pod is unbalanced, lots of music and then nothing, seriously tired slurring from mid point onwards, background noises, dodgy editing. definitely not best work. but its done. mods say files can be swapped at any time.
fucking yes.
eventually managed to add music and send off to mods....way way after deadline. oh son, so disappoint.
Deadlines are not for 180 000 word epics. I read at about 10 000 words an hour. Do the math, and it becomes an18 hour pod. Every minute of recording represents 3-5 minutes of input from me. magog_83 described the time to pod this aptly as: that's like having a full time job for a week!
it worked out to be longer than that too. so many things wrong with me...
3) murphy's law
i re-did the first five hours of the pod. why did i decide to do that? because i slurred far, far too much. why was i slurring? because i would get up early to commute to work, work, commute back home, eat, and then try to knuckle down and pod. of course, i was too tired to really maintain the kind of narrative voice i like - not to mention my tiredness made me unintentionally slur my words. listening back to only the first hour on the weekend, i couldn't stand it, and had to re-do it.
i really should not have, as then i went on a weekend business trip, and i lost a very precious weekend i could have cranked out pod. what did this result in? myself spending the next weekend talking to the computer all day and night, because I had no time to lose. having two apples, a mac desktop and a macbook, i can use both to record. i prefer the desktop, i like the set up a lot better, but people are constantly coming in and out, the washing machine keeps getting used and dogs are barking. i move to my macbook and use the same file, using network sharing. i moved to a quieter, less comfortable area and kept recording.
garageband crashed. that was fine. i had lost a half hour maybe, but i had saved it at the end of the last chapter. what is this funny error i'm getting now that it's booting back up? can't locate female voice track? what does that even....
silence.
i lost 6 hours of recording. even though i pressed save. why the fuck did you choose then to lose my voice? how the fuck did you even manage that?
fucking macbook.
after having a cry, i went back at it. i couldn't risk that happening again., so i then had no choice but to go back to the desktop and keep going, no matter what kind of background noise there was. no time. no more time. have to scrap break music and underlying music tracks because I couldn't afford to spend any time fiddling with volume levels, fade outs, and even choosing tracks. have a huge bout of disappointment. move on. frantically read and read and read.
the weekend is over. there's no time. that 6 hours lost really fucked me over. have no choice but resort back to initial method: work, commute, eat, pod, sleep. By calculations, there's not enough time to do everything left by the deadline. must create time: sacrifice sleep. run on empty for three days straight - work, commute, eat, pod, slur, edit, slur, fuck it, good enough, keep going, keep going, sleep/nap three hours repeat cycle.
on track finally, on the last day. reward self by taking a nap before podding the last stretch.
sleep through the night.
fuccccccck.
no help for it, go to work, commute, eat, pod. it's the end. the end! it has been reached! reward self by adding in outro music. wanted to pod drabbles connected to main story but there is now negative time, can't now, get disappointed, move on. upload the files to mediafire. file size too fucking big? fuck. research rar on mac, hate self, split files and upload to mediafire. get the first 7 files ready to go but the last 3 are taking ages. need sleep.
upload everything, mods so understanding. pod is unbalanced, lots of music and then nothing, seriously tired slurring from mid point onwards, background noises, dodgy editing. definitely not best work. but its done. mods say files can be swapped at any time.
fucking yes.
eventually managed to add music and send off to mods....way way after deadline. oh son, so disappoint.