I've only asked one person for concrit, and that was for my first itty-bitty podfic, and I found it helpful and welcomed their opinion. That was you, Dodie, although I don't know if you remember anything about it.
Only one other person left feedback that could be considered concrit, and they suggested I might like to speed up my reading a bit. I have speeded up a little, after coming to the conclusion that my normal speaking voice probably has more of a drawl to it and is naturally slower, so deliberately slowing down all the time was probably counter productive. I still fiddle with it, and as Podklb said above, how I read is probably fine for some part of the population.
I didn't want to participate in the critical feedback exchange. Maybe if I was aiming on becoming a professional reader than I would do it, but I don't, this is a hobby for me. That said, I don't think I'd fall apart if a listener did give me concrit that ripped me up. Still, I'm not going out of my way to ask for it.
I don't use a beta because I don't want to slow down the process of making the podfic. I kind of beta myself, I practice record and listen to the recording and think about how it's coming across, practice saying lines different ways. After recording I play it on my Ipod and listen for the other mistakes and fix them. I usually listen at least twice. Once I've uploaded to the archive, though, I don't want to go back and change something. It's too much work for me and the helpers at the archive.
I've gotten enough positive feedback to know that there are listeners who like my podfics, or at least some of them. Mostly I'm recording in a fandom that doesn't have a lot of podfic readers, or the level of interest in podfics that SPN or SGA has. I think that probably Dodie is the other person besides me who has recorded the most in the Sentinel fandom. (By the way, listened to the recent ones Dodie did and it's on my to do list to leave some comments. Also planning on reccing them on the Tspodfic comm.) Anyway, I think my point is that I might not get a lot of concrit because not a lot of people listen to Sentinel podfics, period.
Giving concrit. (I'm not going to complain about household noises, or others, because they're probably out of the podficcers ability to control. I do think it's funny when I'm listening to a podfic while I'm walking down my gravel road and think a car is coming, and it turns out it's on the podfic. Also those birds sounds always make me think of an apartment I had where the frickin' birds started singing at five am every day without fail. I usually hadn't gotten to bed till two am. It makes me remember my junior year of college, so I don't mind hearing them in podfics, either.
I think I would give concrit only if the person put on their post that they were looking for it. I have mentioned when giving recs to answer a request for podfics, that the story was enjoyable, but did have a few repeated lines. I wasn't telling the podficcer, though, at least not directly. And they figured it out because later podfics had those kind of things edited out.
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Only one other person left feedback that could be considered concrit, and they suggested I might like to speed up my reading a bit. I have speeded up a little, after coming to the conclusion that my normal speaking voice probably has more of a drawl to it and is naturally slower, so deliberately slowing down all the time was probably counter productive. I still fiddle with it, and as Podklb said above, how I read is probably fine for some part of the population.
I didn't want to participate in the critical feedback exchange. Maybe if I was aiming on becoming a professional reader than I would do it, but I don't, this is a hobby for me. That said, I don't think I'd fall apart if a listener did give me concrit that ripped me up. Still, I'm not going out of my way to ask for it.
I don't use a beta because I don't want to slow down the process of making the podfic. I kind of beta myself, I practice record and listen to the recording and think about how it's coming across, practice saying lines different ways. After recording I play it on my Ipod and listen for the other mistakes and fix them. I usually listen at least twice. Once I've uploaded to the archive, though, I don't want to go back and change something. It's too much work for me and the helpers at the archive.
I've gotten enough positive feedback to know that there are listeners who like my podfics, or at least some of them. Mostly I'm recording in a fandom that doesn't have a lot of podfic readers, or the level of interest in podfics that SPN or SGA has. I think that probably Dodie is the other person besides me who has recorded the most in the Sentinel fandom. (By the way, listened to the recent ones Dodie did and it's on my to do list to leave some comments. Also planning on reccing them on the Tspodfic comm.) Anyway, I think my point is that I might not get a lot of concrit because not a lot of people listen to Sentinel podfics, period.
Giving concrit. (I'm not going to complain about household noises, or others, because they're probably out of the podficcers ability to control. I do think it's funny when I'm listening to a podfic while I'm walking down my gravel road and think a car is coming, and it turns out it's on the podfic. Also those birds sounds always make me think of an apartment I had where the frickin' birds started singing at five am every day without fail. I usually hadn't gotten to bed till two am. It makes me remember my junior year of college, so I don't mind hearing them in podfics, either.
I think I would give concrit only if the person put on their post that they were looking for it. I have mentioned when giving recs to answer a request for podfics, that the story was enjoyable, but did have a few repeated lines. I wasn't telling the podficcer, though, at least not directly. And they figured it out because later podfics had those kind of things edited out.
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