The Plans for the Second Barrow-Downs Audio Adaption!

[Eönwë]

Well, since I didn't get the chance to do the last one (sorry, people) I think I might be able to do this (the summer holidays beckon!).

But I don't know about voices yet.

[Nogrod]

I've meddled with your clips a bit Hookbill and they can be found from here.

I added some bottom to them and they sound good indeed but the hiss in the first and the low hum in the Harry-bit are a bit disturbing... Anything you could do about it?

Thenamir, as I said in my PM if you have any ideas about the music just come forwards with suggestions. I'm in no way willing to reserve the music-department as my own. On the contrary. It would be nice to make things together - and as I'm no real composer myself I'd be glad to play anything someone else composes (I can play guitar, bass and sing - and I can also handle synths to make classical instruments or those weirdo movie sounds and I've learned to program drums / percussions...).


All ideas about nice home-made sound effects are welcome - and the actual effects themselves to be sure*. Yes, we can discuss this. There are a lot of sound effects around to be used but do we wish to make them ourselves as well?


I have been kind of organising The Ring Goes South -project - and I do hope we'll get it done pretty soon - but if someone wishes to take charge of this project feel free to do it. I can do this as well, as it is fun, but I have no special claim or aim on doing it. So anyone with a decent software for doing the mixing stuff and a wish to organise this could do it. I'm available for any role you think I might fit and I can help with the music as well.

This doesn't mean I'm trying to slide off from the project. No way. I love these! But I just wanted to say I'm not in any way willing to be the one who calls the shots if someone else would love to do it and curses her/himself why that guy bosses all around...


*Hah. Legate and Rune are coming here in the beginning of August. With Volo, Lommy, Aganzir, Greenie and Anniina, Lommy's friend - and possibly my little sis & her boyfriend - we could indeed try to record something what the general noise in the Prancing Pony could be...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

I've meddled with your clips a bit Hookbill and they can be found from here.

Ah, okay. Thanks. It's been so long since I used the sound recording software that I completely forgot to get rid of the hiss!
The hum in the second one is probably because I lowered the pitch.
Moreover, I need a better microphone...

[Volo]

I'm happy to do any hobbit I'm given, especially as I now have a microphone.

[Gwathagor]

I think I could do a pretty good Frodo, if you need me.

[MatthewM]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

I can play guitar, bass and sing - and I can also handle synths to make classical instruments or those weirdo movie sounds and I've learned to program drums / percussions...).

And you play them very very well! The clip that I heard about the possible Bree music sounds great.

All ideas about nice home-made sound effects are welcome - and the actual effects themselves to be sure*. Yes, we can discuss this. There are a lot of sound effects around to be used but do we wish to make them ourselves as well?

I would prefer home made stuff, like the wolves howling that you and everybody did in that preview clip. It's more authentic that way. I agree that using pre-made sounds will put a damper on the originality.

Originally Posted by Nogrod

I have been kind of organising The Ring Goes South -project - and I do hope we'll get it done pretty soon - but if someone wishes to take charge of this project feel free to do it. I can do this as well, as it is fun, but I have no special claim or aim on doing it. So anyone with a decent software for doing the mixing stuff and a wish to organise this could do it. I'm available for any role you think I might fit and I can help with the music as well.

This doesn't mean I'm trying to slide off from the project. No way. I love these! But I just wanted to say I'm not in any way willing to be the one who calls the shots if someone else would love to do it and curses her/himself why that guy bosses all around...

Nogrod...without you I don't think we could go on with these! Don't be so modest! You are the natural leader of these, even if I came up with the seedling ideas. Think of it this way...pretend I'm Frodo offering you the Ring and you're Gandalf. Now, instead of refusing the Ring, do take it!!!

[MatthewM]

Oh and Hook- great clips! Thanks for them...I like your Gate Keeper!

So, thus far, we have myself, Hook, Gwath, Volo, Eönwë, Thenamir, TheGreatElvenWarrior, and of course Nogrod if he wants to do a role. So, that is 8 people. Did I forget anybody? If so, do correct me.

Out of the 8 mentioned, who are females? I know Hook, Gwath, Volo, and Nogrod are males, so that's 5 including myself...and I know TGEW is female...Eonwe and Then, care to let us know your gender? Odd question...haha.

And Nogrod...do have all those people over your house for some festivity in Bree! That would be great!

[MatthewM]

So...any preferences? Gwath has mentioned Frodo. Volo, I know you have an interest in Frodo too...as you'll be voicing him in The Ring Goes South.

I know to some it doesn't matter which character they get, which is fine! Just wanted to get the ball rolling and see if anybody has any more preferences.

[Eönwë]

MatthewM, I am the same gender as the character I am named after (though I don't happen to be the greatest warrior ever).
Basically, male.

[Laurinquë]

Well this looks like a lot of fun!
I don't really know how female parts there are, but I would love to take part in it!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

And Lauri is a girl.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Laurinquë

I don't really know how female parts there are, but I would love to take part in it!

You know Tolkien... not too many...

We have tried to overcome that fact with assigning the narrator and the hobbits & the elves to female-voices (in the Ring Goes South -part underway now). This particular thing about the Prancing Pony is an offshot of that which Matthew who thought the males should have a right to play the hobbits suggested. And it's a nice idea. But there are very few roles to females then.

So it will be kind of a male thingie...

But I'd say we start co-discussing (in a separate thread) a part from Lothlorien where all the elves and hobbits would be females... or let's make a gender-radical interpretation of any part of the story? Or let's turn to Silmarillion for a female adaptation of a part of it?

How about the Ainulindalë? There's only the narrator there but we could come up with any nice ideas about it: voices speaking it on top of others, in unison, in a fugue-style, someone reading it in discord, sharing the parts, composing the music & performing it together... there's no limit what we can do but our imagination...

Or any of those stories of the old that have no characters speaking their lines but just are so grand being stories of great things passing?

I'd be more than happy to help you out with any that kind of thing without a character role myself.