Hey gang,
The dude doing the graphics for "The Table Round" has quit/been kidnapped (hasn't responded to an email in a couple weeks. I lean towards quit).
The basic graphics we do (pasting the logo on public domain paintings) I can do, but I don't have this font
Any idea what it is? I've bee searching, and no luck yet.
EDIT: Found it.
Octorox said:
...also I can do a pretty mean Ewan MacGregor as Obi-Wan impression :P
Then why the blue milk haven't you gotten a role on The Table Round yet?
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Table-Round-Podcast-Audio-Drama/topic/16299/
So, in "Agents of SHIELD" I know it's not a superhero show, but does every single person have to wear nothing but black at all times?
Victoria Hand has a freaking RED LOCK in her hair, but can't wear a red blouse? The geeky scientists cant wear a green sweater? Coulson can have a gold tie?
Tiny complaint. I do dig the show.
Moving on the assumption the adaptation would be of the PT as made, it seems the best choice would be PUSH the strengths, HIDE the weaknesses.
Matt Stover wrote some GOLD in ROTJ novelisation about Annie's fear of death. We could push those flashbacks actually into TPM and AOTC strengthening his character immensely.
A thought on audio POV.
In audio, its more difficult to shift scenes and viewpoints, because it takes a few moments to reorient the audience to where they are, who is there, and the more frequently you do it, the cheesier it starts to sound.
For example, the speeder chase in AOTC, I'd stick with Anakin the whole time. Obi jumps out the window, Anakin races to find a car, drives off scanning the skies for Obi, sees the droid blow up and catches Obi. No need to jump from Annie to Obi to stupid assassin and back.
I'm going to mention that since there's no easy way to sum up Welles's accomplishments, we can at least have a laugh at the sad twilight of his career.
I think with Welles, the line between reality and screwing around was always blurred.
at the container store. Tom
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?action_edit=1&list=PLSAEfZmtFWaJfk58t_5wiyCHeNCtHzt_-
There is a handout and slideshow to go with it, and a mini-textbook I made, but this is the youtube playlist i'm using to teach the class.
The micro series proved to me that what fans always want is a villain who kills everyone and doesn't talk.
Tom had never told them
So, two classes worth of High school students will no be exposed to the concepts of film preservation via George Lucas's bizarre obsessions.
I have accounts on all the audio drama casting websites and forums, and already a pretty big rolodex of talent.
Would you want talent to do at least a passing similarity to the actor's from the film?
Casting a good Lil' Annie would be really important. You'd probably want to consider a female to play him.
I have formatted audio drama scripts and a giant collection of sound FX (including a bunch of Star Wars ones) at your disposal sir.
thejediknighthusezni said:
Well, I don't believe in left and right. I believe in upwards toward True Law, or downwards toward ever greater tyrannical horror.
Imagine a sheer cliff. Upwards is a plateau of pleasant green fields and fruit trees. Downwards is a roiling sea filled with vicious, repacious sharks. There is a left and right along the cliff face. Rightwards might be something like Iran. Fascism might be somewhere towards the middle. Communism to the left.
Wherever we are on the cliff face, the issue is essentially the same. Do we go upwards or downwards. Lateral movement will only take us to a slightly different flavor of horrible tyranny.
(It is true that you can have too much of a good thing and attempt to go higher than the plateau. This is the Libertarian error. It will lead to anarchy and chaos. We would arc over and slide down into the shark infested sea. Ayn Rand is the Immanuella Goldstein of the modern era. Like Marx, she was extremely good at diagnosing and denouncing the problem. It's no wonder the satanists have helped to promote her as the alternative side of the equation next to Fascism.)
But let's turn things 90 degrees to the orientation the satanists have been programming everyone to see. Central to satanist philosophy is that individuals must experience the full measure of evil in order to appreciate the "good". You have to bash your head hard into that brick wall in order to gain "the wisdom" of knowing what it is to not knock your head. They tell us we must have both and the sinister side must be more powerful than the right (it's no accident that the "Progressive" bible, Rules For Radicals, is dedicated to Satan.)
Where "right" is in fact upwards, why not have two powerful wings that carry us up?
Ayn Rand was right. Where's the compromise between food and poison?
The focus of government should be upon sheilding the people from the evils of others and protecting the basic value of Life, Liberty(enslavement to True Law in order to escape enslavement by evil men), and property. This should always be done with the attitude of greatest reluctance and suspicion. It's far too easy to get it wrong.
"Progressives" only know how to dive into things enthusiasticaly, head-first. They are the enlightened ones of vast intellectual and moral superiority. What could go wrong?
There's just something funny about quoting Ayn Rand, calling people you disagree with 'satanists' and then in the same post shaming progressives for supposedly thinking they're intellectually or morally superior.
Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
I think the summary on savestarwars.com is pretty good.
Me= "Duh".
I dont have time to write it, but is there a short summary of George Lucas's actions suppressing his films?
I want to include it in my handouts for "Intro to Film" I'm teaching. I'm looking for something 300-600 words.
Any ideas?
fishmanlee said:
Yeah, I am.
TPM:You might want to consider an Annikin chapter, like the early Luke and Leia chapters in the SW-Radio show. The first chapters of the novel are about that. Possibly and Amidala/Palpatine/Trade Federation chapter, fleshing them out.
Short Negotiations
The Droid Invasion
The Underwater Adventure
Queen Amidala
Fateful Meetings
Bet for a Slave
The Big Race
Freedom
The High Council
War Clouds
A Noble End
New Knight, New Apprentice
ROTS
The Clone Wars (pehaps a whole chapter on the attack on Coruscant?)
The Chancellor Rescue
Scenes and Dreams
Seeds of Distrust
General Grievous
Betrayal and Dark Deeds
Fall of the Jedi
Enter Lord Vader
The Terrible Truth
Narrow Escapes
An Empire Is Forged
Birth and Rebirth
A New Hope
Just assuming you're looking to mirror the basic length and format of the NPR dramas?
Warbler said:
thejediknighthusezni said:
Bingowings said:
UKIP...it exists, people vote for it in large numbers and everybody seems to have forgotten the funny little comic Austrian that had the popular touch in Germany in the 30's.
UKIP? what is that?
It's that book about a giant bear. Very scary. I can't believe people would vote for it.
Tack said:
If it was based on the novelizations, removed a bunch of anachronistic elements, and gave actual expression to everything, of COURSE I'd be interested!
I agree. The novelisation's have big chunks of good characterization and interesting scenes that would expand and enhance the story in much the way th OT Radio shows did.
I would also say including chunks of the Clone Wars material (Tatarovsky cartoon, novels) as the first episode or two of "Revenge of the Sith," giving material immediatly preceding the start of the film.
I've actually given it lots of thought. My own audio drama www.TheTableRound.com started life as my attempt to make a Star Wars fan drama, inspired by other Star Wars fan dramas.
While my creative juices go mostly towards Table Round, if you were getting a band put together, I'd like to be on it, although not the leader.
peep Star Wars FanWorks to see a lit of the awesome work people are doing.
Leonardo said:
Maybe it's not very "magic", but have you tried the "reverse echo"?
Record line, reverse it, apply echo/reverb, reverse again, apply another reverb stage. If done correctly it can be very eerie.
That's utterly terrifying. I have to do that!
Darth Lars said:
TheBoost said:
How do I know Lightsaber blades stop at about a meter length? Real lasers don't, No character ever says that it is so.
There is an annoying 10-year old kid in Episode 1 that uses the word "Laser Sword" the first time he sees a lightsaber. Nobody else does it. It isn't a laser just because a 10-year old kid who does not know better says that it is.
I actually think you're agreeing with me.
Since NOTHING in Star Wars called a laser acts like a laser ("that wasn't a laser blast, something hit us!") worrying about what a real world laser does seems unnecessary.
Whatever they are, it seems best just to take them as presented as presented in the films.
I just bought a VHS of an old BBC miniseries called "Merlin of the Crystal Cave."
It was $1 plus shipping, but this means when I get it I'll have to go find my VCR in the garage.
So, for my podcast audiodrama "The Table Round" I need some magic effects for when magic people talk.
I've used reverb to death, and did a weird dual-pitch gimmick a la Evil Galadriel.
I use Audacity. Anyone have a tip on other techniques to try to get otherworldly effects on vocals?
HigHurtenflurst said:
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Tyrphanax said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
HigHurtenflurst said:
When the Death Star fires at the MonCalamari ship, it always bothered me that the beam didn't just punch right through like it was made of paper and keep going. It can destroy a whole planet, so a ship shouldn't have stopped it... Maybe it could even take out another ship(s) in the background.
This is a good one. I've always thought the same, myself.
I believe the official explanation is that the second Death Star had a variable energy output so they could dial it down to destroy a ship, or dial it up to destroy a planet.
Something about that explanation just never sat right with me.
Why not? It doesn't make sense to use the full power of the superlaser just to blow up something as tiny as a capital ship. Reducing the power level in exchange for a faster rate of fire not only makes sense, but would also help explain why the Death Star in Star Wars spent 30 minutes traveling around Yavin to to get in range of the Rebel base instead of blowing up Yavin and then blowing up the Rebel base two minutes later.
Why not? Well because the only "official" explanation would be whatever is in the movie in the first place and not some fan-boy EU crap. The emperor says it's "fully armed and operational," and nobody says anything different. What you say makes 100% sense, but once the ship explodes the beam would have gone through. Visually it would be a much more dramatic demonstration of the beam's supposed power.
The official explanation IS the movie.
The Death Star can blow up a planet. It can also blow up a ship. This is totally clear in the film. It requires no further exposition in the film, nor any outside discussion.
YOU made up a rule "once the ship explodes the beam would have gone through" that doesn't fit with what's in the film. The film is not in error.
This is the correct answer. The DSII is depicted as having variable-strength firepower. That's not a crazy concept.
??? I must have missed something. Depicted how? In some EU account? There is no dialogue or discussion in the film to indicate that, (eg. "Fire at 1/4 strength, commander!"), the firing sequence as shown is IDENTICAL to ANH... You're just ASSUMING that's the case. FWIW, I totally agree with your logic about variable beam strength/anti ship weaponry, but in reality once a laser burns through a substance, it keeps right on going. But thank you for giving me credit for making up basic physics!
And since not a single thing in the entire Star Wars universe behaves like a actual LASER, not the laser-swords, planet destroying lasers, or laser guns, perhaps that's not the best model of what one should expect to see.
How do I know Lightsaber blades stop at about a meter length? Real lasers don't, No character ever says that it is so. Is it in the EU? How do I know this?!?!? How can that be?!?!? It can't possibly be because that's what's in the movie.
Tyrphanax said:
I don't think we need to have everything be explained explicitly throughout the movie.
No. What's IN THE MOVIE is never enough.
We see a variable strength DS laser, that's a load of hogwash. We need someone to lean into frame and say "Goodness! The Death Star fired on the ship at lower power, hence the obvious lower power shot!"
I can't just SEE Vader on his Star Destroyer, I need to see him in transit, and frankly, it would have helped if there was someone on screen commenting on it like "It sure is great Vader left Cloud City to arrive here on this Star Destroyer."
I can't imagine any fans having issue with a character like that.
Much love to anyone suffering uncontrolled cellular growth of the improper kind.
Something we call all agree is in fact, worse that WOW radio.