Podfic: something in the heart (Hist RPF/Shadow of the Tower)

[thisbluespirit]

I've been a little quiet this week, because my friend was up visiting for two days, which was lovely (she is also the only person I know in rl who thinks watching creaky old cult TV is fun. O, guess what we did?), but then I was extremely tired after. I'm feeling a bit better now & decided that it might be a good moment to have another go at podficcing (because I'd already got myself used to speaking more earlier in the week and recovered from it, so...).

(I have complicated feelings about podfic, which mostly wind up at NOPE. However, I used to read aloud as part of my rl job & also had to think about making stuff accessible in as many formats as possible, and am rather worried about how silent I am for most of the time these days & how much it takes out of me when I do talk for very long, so carefully monitored speaking for x length and gradually building up via fic-reading seems like a useful plan. I just have to deal with all the other NOPES but we'll get there!)

Anyway, I started with this. The podfic is very basic & probably enough to make practised podficcers shudder, but I think it is at least fully audible and that was my chief aim. But I don't think people will be queuing up to listen to obscure ficlets in podfic-form anyway! (Er. I hope!)

Title: something in the heart
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 730 words / 3.31 mins
Characters/Pairings: Henry VII/Elizabeth of York
Notes/Warnings: None. For hc_bingo square “trust issues”. My first podfic - very basic, no music or effects, but I think it is at least fairly audible throughout.
Summary: Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, at the beginning and at the end…

Also on the AO3 (with links to the original fic).

Free MP3 download: something in the heart podfic.mp3

Comments

[liadt]

I'm glad you've had a nice (if tiring) week. I thought you'd gone off to give more blud!

The podfic was very sweet:) You sounded a bit nervous at the start x.

[thisbluespirit]

I did! I had a nice time with E, my friend, but then Thurs and yesterday was rather more overtired than I can still account for, which was a little worrying, so I laid low until I started to feel a bit more human again!

But I made her watch some Adam Adamant (she liked it!) and some Blake's 7 (she liked that too) and then we finished up with some Sixth Doctor. (I loved seeing her for other reasons too, of course, especially as it's been difficult for us to get together for long for years, because we both have health issues.)

The podfic was very sweet:) You sounded a bit nervous at the start

Aw, thanks! ♥ You may very well be my only listener. And it wasn't so much nerves as "I'm going to do this wretched thing, I've only been trying for a year... why am I doing this ungodly, unnatural thing, why?????" And then after that it was a bit better. :lol:

[liadt]

Best friend ever! Excitement can be tiring. I think all these people who hate AAL have never watched it because everyone who watches it seems to like it. It's a conspiracy!

LOL, perhaps not the best way to get into podficcing!

[eve11]

Yay for podfic! You have a great voice! I kind of love and am slightly jealous of your accent. I thought you did very well with the tones and emotions of the story too.

For me, just starting out podficcing was mortifying. I can only do it if no one else is in the house. Once you get into the project, it starts to feel better, I think.

If you are using a microphone on a stand, one thing you can do to get rid of the puffs of air that sometimes come with 'p's and other plosive sounds, is to take a pair of nylons (pantyhose, tights etc) and stretch them across some kind of frame (I used a bent up coat hanger) and position this between you and the mike with some duct tape or the like so you speak through it when you record. It gets rid of all those plosive effects. You could also buy a fancy screen like they have in sound studios, but I have found that the pantyhose trick works perfectly.

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! That's very kind of you! ♥

Indeed, I don't think I'd be doing it with anyone else around - certainly not if I'm reading out my own fic! /o\

And ooh, thank you - that sounds like a really useful tip. I have something that should work well for a frame, so I've fished out an old pair of nylons from the back of the drawer & I'll give it a test and see how it goes. :-)

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

So glad your friend came up to hang with you. Even if it left you tuckered out. So hoping this podficcing idea works out - easy does it and one step at a time, yes?

*HUGS*

[thisbluespirit]

Indeed! Thanks. ♥