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paraka ([personal profile] paraka) wrote in [community profile] podficmeta 2011-04-08 01:11 am (UTC)

I beta from the same perspective
I've started doing that since I got into podfic. I don't really write fic but when I write meta posts and stuff, I'll read it out loud first. It's a lot easier to catch things that way.

There are a lot of fragmentary sentences, it's not clear where the emphasis should be in a lot of cases, and I've made more mistakes than than I usually do because of it.
I totally understand what you mean. I have a finished podfic that I've been sitting on because, while I have a recording of it from beginning to end, it was painful for me to do. It seemed like the author wrote in sentence fragments and I feel like I got the emphasis wrong quite a few times but I can't seem to work up the energy to rerecord the mistakes.

So for my own future reference, I promise to take random pages from deep within the story I think I want to record, and try reading them aloud.
I have a mostly written podfic tutorial written that I will post some day and one of the first steps I gave was to try reading parts of it out loud to yourself before you get too commited to a story because sometimes, no matter how much you love a story, it's just too much of a headache to record it. My first podfic? I got about 5 hours in (of the recording and editing) before I finally gave up (part of that was that I was too ambitious for a first podfic).

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