Interview With An Onos
frances_farmer
Join Date: 2002-10-12 Member: 1485Members
Join Date: 2002-10-12 Member: 1485Members
<div class="IPBDescription">The Ultimate Radio Parody</div> It took one month to make, 5 people, 3 mics, 1037 spoken words, oh and a sense of humor.
We really hope you like the parody interview. You will need winzip to access the archive and some form of mp3 player to hear it.
If anyone knows people from Natural Selection fansites, or works for one, please contact me - if you like this i could really do with hosting it to get it to as many people as possible.
The file is now up on planetNS.
Anyway, take a listen and reply with any thoughts or praise <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> You can also email me by clicking the link in my sig. Click to be taken to the download page below then click on "Download it here" at the top of the page.
<a href='http://www.planetns.com/articles/onosint.htm' target='_blank'>Click here to download the interview!</a>
We really hope you like the parody interview. You will need winzip to access the archive and some form of mp3 player to hear it.
If anyone knows people from Natural Selection fansites, or works for one, please contact me - if you like this i could really do with hosting it to get it to as many people as possible.
The file is now up on planetNS.
Anyway, take a listen and reply with any thoughts or praise <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> You can also email me by clicking the link in my sig. Click to be taken to the download page below then click on "Download it here" at the top of the page.
<a href='http://www.planetns.com/articles/onosint.htm' target='_blank'>Click here to download the interview!</a>
Comments
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<li>The onos talks WAY too slow... You gotta keep the conversation flowing, and 2-second pauses and 3-second-long words really put a damper on the mood
<li>Whoever played the interviewer was breathing into the mic... Ouch :/
<li>Gotta normalize the volumes... Could barely hear the "special guest"
<li>It's up to you, but most DJs and interviewers that I've seen/heard, including myself (I used to DJ on some shoutcast stations) tend to keep the flow constant and fast. Dramatic pauses are alright, but on the whole, silence is bad. Remember that the audience can't see your facial expressions, so when there's no sound, they don't know what's going on.
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Buy hey, make some more of these things... The more practice, the better ya get, and this could be some funny sh* :)
Xentor: you are being too harsh.
Personally I think its a great idea, and pretty funny... Some tips for you though.
I dont know what you used for the editing but, if you use sound forge (which you probably should) Instead of just pitching the voice down, select "preserve duration".. This will make the will make the voice sound deeper with out slowing it down.
Also sound forge has a handy plug-in called "noise reduction" this will take out that back ground noise. And yah, you should probably try to remove some of those gaps between words.
nice work.. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
cheers,
-Lazerus
i used sound forge and cool edit pro.
firstly, none of us have very good mics. I had the best and its still not that great as you can hear the background noise (i play the onos). I am fully aware of the various noise reduction processes and i did play around with these. However it was very hard to preserve clear sound when reducing noise levels so as a last minute decision i decided to not use it.
Now the interviewer's recordings were of a poor quality to start with. This was a mistake on the actors behalf by simply recording at a crap bit rate. Unfortunately he didnt have much time to rerecord them so i went with them. In order to maintain continuity i recorded the same background noise from the Onos lines and mixed this with the interviewer's lines. This was to eliminate the pitch change in background noise.
Obviously in compressing the file to an mp3 size suitable for 56k users to download there was significant loss in quality in comparison to the source file. However I obviously wanted to take this risk in order to have a wide audience.
As with the Onos speaking slowly, it is a matter of opinion. Maybe he's not that great at English <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> However I did discover the preserve duration option but only in Cool Edit Pro unfortunately and the deep voice sounds better done through Sound Forge.
For a first attempt I'm quite happy with the result. Yes it could have been better but its all part of learning. I hope you will still enjoy it. This was my first time using sound editing software. Don't forget us, we will be back and bigger and better next time!
I still thing the Onos spoke too slowly though... I'm pretty sure SF has a way of modifying the speed... An interesting fact that you may or may not know... Musical pitch is logarithmic, so increasing one octave actually doubles the frequency... So if you double the speed, then pitch-shift it down one octave, you'll preserve the original tone. So even if SF doesn't do this automatically, you can run it through two filters to get it right...
Good luck man... I look forward to your next release :)
How was he being harsh? He wasen't flaming him, he was giving honest critisism, like he said himself.
Awww crap. Now i'm not going to download it, you've ruined the ending!
Well, that's a lie, the link just doesn't work.
Try renaming to .mp3, worked fine for me.
<a href='http://www.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?/planethalflife/news/onosinterview.zip' target='_blank'>Download it here.</a>
I am the voice of the Onos by the way.