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tealinDid you know ... that there is free (and, more importantly, legal) sound editing software available online?
I did not know this until today.
This is fortuitous timing as last week's viewing of some beautiful traditional animation done in Flash has inspired me to try the same. One of my intended vict - er, subjects is a scene from The Hostile Hospital which I'd intended to use to learn Flash because it's mostly setup and not animation, but I needed to make Tim Curry sound like a thirteen-year-old boy, and that requires the use of some sound manipulation thingy. So HAH! Now I HAVE one! Beware!
11:02 pm
Okay, scratch the sound editing thing... neither of the programs I downloaded tonight have a way of modifying tone, which is what I need on top of pitch, because otherwise it just sounds like Mr. Curry is talking through his nose.
Regardless, I went and storyboarded (kiiiind of) the sequence, which makes up .
By way of a primer, I'll brief you on the text. The context is that Klaus is, by a long and complicated back story, holding a long, sharp, rusty Bowie knife while his sister Violet lies anaesthetized on a gurney. They're in the middle of an operating theatre, packed to the brim with curious onlookers, Volunteers Fighting Disease, and members of the press. The members of Olaf's troupe are circling in on them. My selected passage goes as follows:
So, we have about twenty attempts to frame the first line as I see it in my head, none of which are very effective. The downshot truck in thing is for "You can't kill all of us," then cut to the medium closeup of the Hook-Handed Man for the rest of the line. That shot came on the first try, though I'll be doing a little more rearranging to get different elements to fit better. Then I had a brilliant (or at least, better) idea for the establishing shot, which you can see underneath, even though it comes before. Klaus's final line didn't fit on this page and I didn't want to start it on the next one for fear that I'd lose visual continuity in my brain, so I'll have to play with it when I get it into Flash. An attempt at the pose is visible in the corner there...
Oh, and that grey polygon with the disturbing little doodle in it on the first page? That's my long-delayed depiction of "Joe, second-grade clothes are for second graders." A delightfully weird almost-mondegreen that has always eluded capture, till now. I doodled it on a post-it at work and had to cut it out and stick it in my sketchbook for safekeeping.
I am rather disappointed (though not surprised) at the results of the Canada Reads competition. I really wanted Oryx and Crake to win ... whenever they read excerpts from the potential novels on The Roundup, its writing was by far superior to any of the others.* But it was Rockbound that won. I can't say I'm surprised because Rockbound is a novel based, as far as I can tell from my scant research (a phrase which here means "what I heard on The Roundup and may not have remembered correctly"), in the Newfoundland fishing industry of days gone by. Its win is only further fuel for my Newfie Conspiracy: that anything from Newfoundland is 150% more Canadian, and therefore more highly valued as being Quintessential to our Cultural Heritage. (Disclaimer: This is a tongue-in-cheek conspiracy theory that is not intended to cast aspersions on any thing, animal, or person from Newfoundland, or the Canada Reads jury.)
I think I'm going to read Oryx and Crake anyway.
*What makes "good writing" anyway? How can you tell? Is it quantifiable? All I know is that the way the words were arranged in Oryx and Crake made them far more satisfying than any of the other excerpts.
I did not know this until today.
This is fortuitous timing as last week's viewing of some beautiful traditional animation done in Flash has inspired me to try the same. One of my intended vict - er, subjects is a scene from The Hostile Hospital which I'd intended to use to learn Flash because it's mostly setup and not animation, but I needed to make Tim Curry sound like a thirteen-year-old boy, and that requires the use of some sound manipulation thingy. So HAH! Now I HAVE one! Beware!
11:02 pm
Okay, scratch the sound editing thing... neither of the programs I downloaded tonight have a way of modifying tone, which is what I need on top of pitch, because otherwise it just sounds like Mr. Curry is talking through his nose.
Regardless, I went and storyboarded (kiiiind of) the sequence, which makes up .
By way of a primer, I'll brief you on the text. The context is that Klaus is, by a long and complicated back story, holding a long, sharp, rusty Bowie knife while his sister Violet lies anaesthetized on a gurney. They're in the middle of an operating theatre, packed to the brim with curious onlookers, Volunteers Fighting Disease, and members of the press. The members of Olaf's troupe are circling in on them. My selected passage goes as follows:
"Get back!" Klaus cried. "This knife is very sharp!"
"You can't kill all of us," the hook-handed man replied. "In fact, I doubt you have the courage to kill anyone."
"It doesn't take courage to kill someone," Klaus said, "It takes a severe lack of moral stamina."The Hostile Hospital pg. 220
So, we have about twenty attempts to frame the first line as I see it in my head, none of which are very effective. The downshot truck in thing is for "You can't kill all of us," then cut to the medium closeup of the Hook-Handed Man for the rest of the line. That shot came on the first try, though I'll be doing a little more rearranging to get different elements to fit better. Then I had a brilliant (or at least, better) idea for the establishing shot, which you can see underneath, even though it comes before. Klaus's final line didn't fit on this page and I didn't want to start it on the next one for fear that I'd lose visual continuity in my brain, so I'll have to play with it when I get it into Flash. An attempt at the pose is visible in the corner there...
Oh, and that grey polygon with the disturbing little doodle in it on the first page? That's my long-delayed depiction of "Joe, second-grade clothes are for second graders." A delightfully weird almost-mondegreen that has always eluded capture, till now. I doodled it on a post-it at work and had to cut it out and stick it in my sketchbook for safekeeping.
I am rather disappointed (though not surprised) at the results of the Canada Reads competition. I really wanted Oryx and Crake to win ... whenever they read excerpts from the potential novels on The Roundup, its writing was by far superior to any of the others.* But it was Rockbound that won. I can't say I'm surprised because Rockbound is a novel based, as far as I can tell from my scant research (a phrase which here means "what I heard on The Roundup and may not have remembered correctly"), in the Newfoundland fishing industry of days gone by. Its win is only further fuel for my Newfie Conspiracy: that anything from Newfoundland is 150% more Canadian, and therefore more highly valued as being Quintessential to our Cultural Heritage. (Disclaimer: This is a tongue-in-cheek conspiracy theory that is not intended to cast aspersions on any thing, animal, or person from Newfoundland, or the Canada Reads jury.)
I think I'm going to read Oryx and Crake anyway.
*What makes "good writing" anyway? How can you tell? Is it quantifiable? All I know is that the way the words were arranged in Oryx and Crake made them far more satisfying than any of the other excerpts.
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