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Post by Chewbaxter on Oct 8, 2008 12:34:07 GMT
Sincere apologies Chewbaxter  I think tonights the night for me. I have managed to connect the USB adapter you get from singstar into the mac. You can then use the microphone and garage band to record 5 mins of audio verbal dialogue. Nearly there!  Nah, it's ME who should apologise - sorry folks for going 'of on one' again - a touch of insomnia and 'p*ssedoffness' again showing up - sorry. It's just I'm keen to see the finished thing... and for a change, not just to listen to my own bit - I'd love to see (or rather 'hear') comments form folk off this forum - PROPER Meadows fans who know their stuff - or at least, know what they like! Right - I've calmed down now. Sorry again Davros, and to everyone else - the Boring Birdwatching B*st*rd has had his say now and is chilled out!  Neil. |
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Post by Gareth on Oct 8, 2008 12:58:48 GMT
ive either gotta rig a mic into my mates guitar pedal or record it to my camera, the singstar mics a good idea though, might have to borrow my mates!!!
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Post by Dave on Oct 8, 2008 15:20:20 GMT
Sincere apologies Chewbaxter I think tonights the night for me. I have managed to connect the USB adapter you get from singstar into the mac. You can then use the microphone and garage band to record 5 mins of audio verbal dialogue. Nearly there! Davros! Now that's kind of info tit-bit that would be great for inclusion in your section! The convoluted method you have had to employ to get a recording done! |
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Post by PatrickCoyle on Oct 8, 2008 18:17:47 GMT
I'm still working on mine. I think I'll have to just chop bits together because I can't go five minutes without turning into a complete speechless mong.
Just wondering (and perhaps this should be left as a surprise for hearing it) - how closely is everyone else referring to their specific clip?
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Post by Bill Edwards on Oct 8, 2008 19:19:58 GMT
... or record it to my camera, ... That's what I did. Into my little camcorder. Into iMovie. Extracted the sound file. Dragged that onto my desktop. Dragged the resulting .aiff into iTunes. Converted it to an .mp3 file. Sent to Mr Dave of Forum. And to answer Mr Coyle's question: I spoke about the things I noticed. My interpretations of what I considered to be going on. Any connections I thought there were. How it compared to my own memories of the early '80s. I watched my clip a few times, made notes, then recorded it. I stumbled and mumbled a few times but it didn't bother me too much. Just chill and record. Kinda easy. |
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Post by Dave on Oct 8, 2008 19:43:13 GMT
I referred to things in the film, but didn't really fixate on the film. I think I rambled about this site and other Meadows facts in general.
I think it is up to people to refer to the film as much or as little as they like... even not at all, as long as most of what you are saying is relevant t the theme of Meadows. Some of the tough scenes in the film I would imagine being awkward to put words to, and I think I have previously mentioned that you don't have to feel bad if you want to avoid confronting serious issues in your banter!
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Post by jill on Oct 8, 2008 20:36:31 GMT
I said who I was, how I got into Shane's films and then described what was going on in the scene. I had the first half of one of the 'toughie' scenes. It seemed a bit inappropriate-to me- to banter. As for being 'speechless', there are lots of pauses in mine, thought it was better than chatting non-stop, but there's no 'right' way to do it and the different styles and takes will make it more interesting I think.
PS. If you pm me an email address, I'll send you my file, if it helps.
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Post by Dave on Oct 8, 2008 20:48:49 GMT
Very generous of you to let people have a listen to your 5 minutes Jill. I am hoping that we get a varied set of 5 minute sections. If nothing else, there will be wild variations in sound-quality! haha But that was what I was expecting and I think it it will lend it some kind of 'patchwork' charm. I think I coined the phrase when I started the idea... we're making a 'Patchwork Commentary' possibly the first of its kind. I dream of a day where patchwork commentaries are made by many groups of fans of different films. ;D I haven't heard any of the sections that have been sent to me in their entirety yet... I want to wait until I have constructed the final giant MP3 and settle down to the film with it. I have heard snippets though because I have been trying to match the audio levels of all the files, and I can say that sound-quality wise, the most interesting feature thus far, is the sound of a nextdoor neighbour drilling the walls! |
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Post by PatrickCoyle on Oct 12, 2008 18:37:13 GMT
Right, mine's done but for a little bit of jiggery-pokery with one or two bits needing to sync up right with the video. Dave, you're much more technological than I am, if I send it to you could you have a listen to it and either add or take away a slight pause/bit of silence where appropriate?
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Post by Dave on Oct 12, 2008 18:50:15 GMT
Right, mine's done but for a little bit of jiggery-pokery with one or two bits needing to sync up right with the video. Dave, you're much more technological than I am, if I send it to you could you have a listen to it and either add or take away a slight pause/bit of silence where appropriate? Sounds good.... that it's done... not sure about the techno know-how needed. I'm not really listening to the whole clips at the moment, I'm waiting until I compile the giant audio file for such tweaks. I'll be listening to it and watching the film as intended and noting down things I should tweek (volume, etc). It's hard to tell whether it's all going to sync up that accurately yet. Will be interesting! haha. If people have been doing it properly, all I should need to do is pop their 5 minutes on the timeline with the start point exactly on their time-code start point. There have been a couple which have broken their five minute barrier (I have listened to the beginnings and ends of clips to do some volume matching). As mentioned originally, I may just fade them out before they finish. A couple of people I have edited to fit the time... I asked them... I think. ;D |
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Post by PatrickCoyle on Oct 12, 2008 19:25:51 GMT
Well mine's 4:55, and there are only a couple of times it directly references that very moment on screen, and it seems slightly out of sync. Though I can never be too sure because I can't play the audio track and video track at exactly the same time. Bugger it, I'll send you the file, let me know if (when) you find any problems with it.
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Post by Dave on Oct 12, 2008 20:21:44 GMT
Just Received Patrick's audio!
Only five more to receive! Time to send personal reminder messages I think!
Sammo... you could be in with a shout. I'll pop you straight into the place of anyone who drops out.
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Post by judecalverttoulmin on Oct 15, 2008 7:15:48 GMT
Wow, nice going Dave, the project is nearly complete! If there are any lurkers out there thinking they'd like to have a bash at this but are feeling a bit daunted or insecure about the prospect, I can reassure you by promising that there is no way you will come out of this looking like more of a plonker than I've done. When I listened back to my section (and I could only bear to listen to it once) I thought "Who the fookin nora does that burd think she is?" and then right at the end, I come over sounding like a complete air-head. And I'm under my real name with a link to my company in my sig! So if I can do it, anyone can. I think one way to look at this may be to remember that you're not auditioning for a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company, this is a way to give something back as a small token of thanks to 1) Shane and his cohorts for the pleasure they've given to us through Shane's films 2) Dave for maintaining this site for all of us. It's giving a tiny little bit of yourself back. No-one is expecting anyone to sound like a trained voice-over professional, because we all know that none of us are that, but in the interests of posterity, I think Dave has recognised that this can be much more than that because it's a record of how Shane's fans felt about the film at the time, so it's an important contribution. It only took me a couple of hours, setting up the film on the laptop and putting a camcorder on a stack of books so it was pointing at the screen, whilst I talked over it, then uploading the result to Microsoft Movie Maker which is free software and easy to use, then uploading the whole to YouTube. Not rocket science and if you can't do the technical side of it then you almost certainly know a teenager who can. And if you're still afraid of sounding like a plonker - well good! That's a sign you're pushing yourself and you don't achieve owt unless you push yourself to uncomfortable places. Here's a good example...Jamie Oliver, right? He's made his mark already, almost certainly got enough dosh, got a lovely missus and gorgeous children and will go down in history already as a great chef who has revolutionised the way the nation's children are fed at school. So he doesn't need to take any more risks. But what does he do? Goes into the middle of Rotherham United football ground sporting a vest saying "1 Oliver" on the back and tells a load of hardened Northern footie fans that he's going to teach them how to cook, and then gets "You're a fat b*stard" chanted at him by 7000 Rotherham supporters. He was quite honestly non-plussed afterwards and said "I dunno why I do these things sometimes, but I just push myself" or something to that effect (You can see that on Episode 2 of Jamie's Ministry of Food which is currently airing on British TV and has just made it to Australia as well.) See? If Jamie can do that, you can do a five minute voiceover. He's no different to you, just a bloke prepared to make a tit of himself. And you're doing it to say thanks to Dave and Shane and the gang, so, for a good cause. So come on, volunteer, put a date in your diary to do this and let's get the last 5 slots filled, woo hoo! |
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Post by jill on Oct 15, 2008 7:20:20 GMT
Just curious Jude, but this is the second time I've noticed a post from you when you don't seem to be online, but there is a mysterious 'invisible user' online. Is that you? Why are you an 'invisible user'?
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Post by judecalverttoulmin on Oct 15, 2008 9:04:28 GMT
Just curious Jude, but this is the second time I've noticed a post from you when you don't seem to be online, but there is a mysterious 'invisible user' online. Is that you? Why are you an 'invisible user'? Hi Jill, just come back to edit the name of Rotherham's team which the OH (a Leeds fan) told me I'd got wrong, duh! Yes, the invisible user online could well be me. This is a hangover from my days as a gunslinger in the unmodded Wild West days of cyberspace at the turn of the millenium. I used to get involved in some right flame wars on a huge forum, really big, bloody affairs, honestly - turned out not to be a waste of time as I've used the experience as inspiration for my book My Adventures In Cyberspace which we're publishing in January and which has just been listed on amazon today, woo hoo! Anyway subsequent to my being famous/infamous in certain little nooks and crannies of cyberspace, a bloke and a woman (unrelated, separately) used to stalk me from forum to forum, pretending to be strangers and deliberately causing trouble. Both had met me in real life and it wasn't hard to find out who they were...anyway the problem has died down now because I'm too busy to go on forums much nowadays, but I do tend to automatically hide my "user online" status. Considering I always post under my real name or with a link to my real name in my sig, that's probably a bit daft, really, but it's just one of those things I do automatically now. You can alter your online status display in the modify your profile section if you need to. |
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