Finally, some un-anonymous criticism...
Jan. 20th, 2014 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mistressjinxWoke up today to a sour comment on my last project from ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
JAK_in_the_box:
"Some mispronounced words, and it was disconcerting to hear certain scenes done in what I think of as the Harlequin Romance Sex Scene Voice, the soft husky drawl you use, but you seem to use that voice for everything outside of story notes. I had to skip parts because of that. You sound totally different when you do readers notes."
The comment made me a little mad. I messaged my beta listener (jsea) who assured me that I pronounced everything correctly. She surely would have caught the mispronuncations on one of her four complete listen throughs. The only thing that could be construed as wrong is the witch chant that is used through out. At one point, myself and two other people (I think you were in on this piscaria) tried to figure out how to say it, so I eventually went to the author for her input and what you hear in the podfic, is what she settled on. So I'm a bit hurt that this accusation is out there that I didn't put enough care into my project to make sure that my words were pronounced correctly. Of coarse, they could be from a different country then me though....
What gets me here is the idea that it's something to rip me apart about, that I use a narrative/reading voice. I admit I do. Over the last year, I've developed my reading style. Let it evolve into what it is naturally. It's the way I'm comfortable narrating. I connect to the words better when I'm giving a performance. In essence, when I podfic, I'm acting. If all actors just used their own voice, everything would be quite boring, I think. When I get anons and comments like this damning the way I read, it hurts. My story notes are me talking. So of coarse they are going to sound different. Because I'm not performing that bit.
Le sigh. I'm so very unhappy about this comment. I didn't know what to say to the person because I wanted to rip their face off and piss in their mouth...but instead I just said, "Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment. <3". I didn't want them to win, I didn't want them to have the satisfaction of breaking me. Is it possible the only consolation is that they didn't say it anonymously? So now I know what to expect when I see their name from here on out. (BTW, they have another one of my projects bookmarked;) and have zero contributions to fandom whatsoever.)
Well in a weird way they won a little bit. I had plans to record today, but instead I just went back to bed. I'm just so angry about this shit. I wanna rage.
piscaria) tried to figure out how to say it, so I eventually went to the author for her input and what you hear in the podfic, is what she settled on. So I'm a bit hurt that this accusation is out there that I didn't put enough care into my project to make sure that my words were pronounced correctly. Of coarse, they could be from a different country then me though....What gets me here is the idea that it's something to rip me apart about, that I use a narrative/reading voice. I admit I do. Over the last year, I've developed my reading style. Let it evolve into what it is naturally. It's the way I'm comfortable narrating. I connect to the words better when I'm giving a performance. In essence, when I podfic, I'm acting. If all actors just used their own voice, everything would be quite boring, I think. When I get anons and comments like this damning the way I read, it hurts. My story notes are me talking. So of coarse they are going to sound different. Because I'm not performing that bit.
Le sigh. I'm so very unhappy about this comment. I didn't know what to say to the person because I wanted to rip their face off and piss in their mouth...but instead I just said, "Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment. <3". I didn't want them to win, I didn't want them to have the satisfaction of breaking me. Is it possible the only consolation is that they didn't say it anonymously? So now I know what to expect when I see their name from here on out. (BTW, they have another one of my projects bookmarked;) and have zero contributions to fandom whatsoever.)
Well in a weird way they won a little bit. I had plans to record today, but instead I just went back to bed. I'm just so angry about this shit. I wanna rage.
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Date: 2014-01-21 10:44 am (UTC)I vented out what I needed to to move on. Thank you for indulging me by reading and commenting:)