EDIT: Finally got it finished and properly saved and exported and lah-dee-dah.
Thankfully, having done it once already, I knew exactly what I needed to keep an ear out for at each take, when I said a thought over and over so I wasn’t slurring too much. Only took an hour to edit it together, then about half an hour to split each of the segments of me talking about the previous 15 minutes of the film apart.
But it’s done and uploaded and you can now listen to it.
Fair warning: I’m incredibly ramble-y in this one; I didn’t have a script, so I had to do a lot of work to tighten it up as much as possible in the editing. I left it with a lot of the “uh”s and “er”s and such intact, to help keep with the informal feeling of the Minicast today.
And when it gets to me talking as the credits roll (when you start hearing actual music playing in the background) it gets even worse, since I couldn’t cut any of that out, as it would’ve been incredibly obvious and sounded terrible with the jarring music. But I still do ramble a lot in those six-ish minutes of the credits.
Regardless, I’m personally kinda proud of today’s Minicast; it’s about the longest I think I’ll ever get on one of these — just over 20 minutes, eh? — and I couldn’t have picked a better movie to want to do the Minicast in this fashion with. There’s so much I love saying about it.
So have a listen of today’s Minicast, on “Kids In America”, down below.
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And if you downloaded it, I’d feel even more appreciated.
I’ll leave the original post in blockquote tags below, also.
Regards,
≈Roy42
All right, the universe conspires against me, so I just had to punch the ground for the past five minutes, then my desk, then pick up all the shit that fell over from me banging my hands in anger.
You see, literally when I hit the command shortcut to save the Minicast as I was done, Adobe Soundbooth, of course, crashed on me.
Literally every other day that I’ve done this but today, it wouldn’t have been that much of a concern. But today, I did something different.
Instead of just watching the movie, then writing shit down, then recording me saying that shit, I just riffed at 15 minute intervals throughout the film, totalling at 54 minutes of record time, which took me two-to-three hours to cut down to just over twenty minutes.
I promised to myself I’d do one everyday, so I have half an hour to now do that two-to-three hours of editing, then upload it on my cripplingly slow Internet connection. This is the only time I’m going to break this rule (and maybe one other time) but today, the Minicast is going to be a couple of hours late.
Fuck it: I’m going to get to sleep very, very, very late, it seems, but I am genuinely proud of managing to edit it once to something that is kinda fun to listen to, in my hopefully worthwhile-to-pay-attention-to opinion, and I will not let it just go unheard.
It’s coming! It really is! In the meantime, why not go acquire a copy, by some means, of tonight’s movie, “Kids In America”? You can watch that, and that’d do about half, if not most of the waiting time. It’s a good movie, by the way.
