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Mr. Flunchy posted:This is a quick journalistic ethics question (I don't know if this is in the right place or not). I wrote a review of a charity readthrough of a play that was staged with the idea of raising funding for a full production. The review was hugely positive as it was genuinely a great play and I also support the cause it puts forward 100%. So after I'd submitted my review I got this email: I think that's pretty cheeky. The producer can send round an edited version if he/she wants. Reply saying 'thanks - that won't be possible, but feel free to use excerpts from the review in your publicity'.
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Nyarai posted:Hi all. I could use some opinions on this. For what it's worth I had no idea Houdini's real name was Weiss, and I'm a general knowledge ninja. So unless your character is sort of a bitter hipster I'd not bother with that line unless you're going to spell it out a little. ^and noir is classically first person, but there's no reason you couldn't do it in 3rd.
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pseudorandom posted:I'm looking to try to boost my creativity level, and I've been thinking that writing short stories may be a good way to do that. Now, I think one of my biggest weaknesses on that front is character development. Does anyone know of some good resources that might help offer basic tips for creating good characters in fiction? Come to Thunderdome. It is, no lie, the best thing to happen to my writing in my life to date.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I have a script for a sci-fi audio play. I got some feedback here on the opening scene, but the thread where I linked the whole thing on Google Docs has two replies, both mine, after a month, so I'm not expecting to hear much more on that. I'd like to produce it or get it produced somehow but it's tough to know where to start on something like that. Hey Maxwell. I'll have a look at it. I would be happy to read a part for you too, see here for what my voice sounds like to see if that would be helpful.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I'm starting to look over how many actors I'd need but there's still organization in terms of having an engineer and sourcing the sound and music and so on. The Solicitation thread seems to be mostly for full pitches ("I need X amount of money, here's what I'll do with it") and I'm not quite at that stage yet. That's partly what I'm searching around for, any help actually doing the logistics of an audio production. I'm not quite clear what you're wanting - people to help with sound/music? Or someone to talk to about how to find people to help with sound/music/recording?
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Red Crown posted:I'm looking to get a microphone for my organization. We've recently started recording a lot of our events for eventual publication on YouTube. We have a nice camera that takes really high quality video, but it doesn't do that great of a job with the audio. We have a lot of older speakers, so we need something that can pick up that kind of thing reliably. I don't know the first thing about this. Our budget is tight, but not that tight. Is there anything we can get for between $100 and $300? Definitely. There are some very solid, cheap USB mics that aren't great for recording music with because of the latency but are great for what you want.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Childish question, but are we allowed to post fanfiction work we have written or is it only original stuff? I'm looking for feedback beyond two sentence reviews on FF.Net yes, certainly. you will get some ribbing but probably useful feedback as well. if it's a longer piece post it in its own thread, if it's shorter then there's a fiction farm thread that I'll bump in a mo. that said, thunderdome is the best place for writing feedback around here, but unfortunately it doesn't like fan fiction.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Hey everyone. Never been to CC before because I'm not creative. I spend most of my time poo poo posting in GBS or YLLS. I don't know if this is the right place for this but I'll ask anyway. do it! set yourself an update frequency and put it in writing. don't worry about not being creative, the only difference between being creative and not is creating stuff.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Ooo. I like that quote. "The only difference between creative and not is not creating stuff." 'I'm going to post something three times a week, on Mon weds and fri.' Or once a week, doesn't really matter, but it's crucial if you don't want it to peter out.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Duly noted. Just gotta make sure I have some actual content. It will mostly be words I'd imagine since I have no talent. Honestly, just tell yourself you're going to write total crap and do it, but try and make each entry a bit less crappy than the one before. Because you have a schedule (doesn't have to be 3/wk, just whatever will work) you'll be wandering around and an idea will pop up for a post and you can toss it round in your head, refining it then poop it out onto the screen. Sometimes it will be a drag and a grind and you'll feel dumb, but producing is the only way to produce, so outsourcing the motivation to some kind of formal structure is really useful. From personal experience 50% of the stories i write start from a blank page and a blank head and I wouldn't do them without a deadline.
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Parallax Scroll posted:I've recently gotten into video editing in order to make animated gifs. I make purely derivative works by taking TV/movie footage and editing it to make something new, such as a mashup of multiple scenes, editing longer scenes down to shorter ones, or simply modifying something to make it loop smoothly. Is that sort of thing OK to post in this subforum, or would that be considered plagiarism/copyright infringement? No, that's fine. Make a thread if you want to post a bunch.
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Bushmaori posted:So I'm writing some awful science fiction that I'm both selling and giving out for free, so the reader can decide if it was worth the money. The two I have out there at the moment are a novella (Quintessence) and a novel (Primarius One). These are both under the pen name John Hale. While I have no problem giving these out for free, at least for now, I would still like to keep track of statistics and reviews, and I would like to ensure that people are able to read the most current and error-free versions. I have two questions relating to this. try the self publishing thread if you don't get a useful answer there, they're all over this stuff.
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JuniperCake posted:Promoting more art threads is always cool though I wonder what this thread would provide that people wouldn't already get from posting in daily drawing and doodles. It's already a pretty relaxed and mostly critique-less atmosphere in there and people certainly post plenty of fanart in there. Sounds good to me, go for it!
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lofi posted:Does SA have an art chat thread/irc? There is a general cc chat thread, or one of the daily drawing threads.
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Edward Mass posted:Can someone help me with an audio project I'm working on? I'm trying to do my own plunderphonics, but I can't time everything down. I have almost all the samples I need. Maybe, what's the problem?
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Sociopastry posted:Is there a name for the genre of art that's fantasy, but highly 80's? Stuff like Boris Vallejo. Van Art.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Yeah it's hard to be specific about this. I saw one picture of a dark foggy path with dark trees on either side. The reverse of that would be a light, welcoming path if I could have found it. Again, a dark mountain with storms or a bright mountain with streams. Lightning storms or clear skies. I'm pretty open. Just like... no anime or anything like that. In fact I'd like to avoid humans altogether and just have some sort of natural phenomena or landscapes or something. There's this guy, not quite what you want but close? You can buy a high res image for a few bucks I think. 
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Pixelante posted:Is there any interest in a "show off your work" thread? I haven't found anything along those lines, but I'd be really interested to see what other goons are up to. Hell yeah, go for it!
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credburn posted:I do a podcast where we adapt video games into weird audio dramas. I need a handful of people to (without pay) record a bunch of video game lines. Is it appropriate for me to create a thread for this purpose? I know about the recordthisforfree subreddit, but I'm hesitant in using it because from what I've seen, the most prolific people offering their voices there are kids, teenagers, or people who don't have a very good microphone. Not that I need anything professional, but it needs to sound... at least consistent with the bitrate of the rest of the show. Also, I have a better connection with goons than reddit? I'm still not entirely sure how reddit works. Yes, this is fine: just be clear that it's for free. I'm happy to record some lines for you, I have an ok mic.
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Christoph posted:Does anyone know what kind of software I should use to make drone/ambient tracks? Reaper is my pick. Look into to Paulstretch as well, it makes wonderful washes out of basically everything.
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Christoph posted:Two novel-writing related questions (if I'm in the wrong thread, sorry): Lester dents pulp guide is good, as is the Dan harmon story circle
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Hmm, don't think so. Feel free to start one, and jump into any discords to pimp it.
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gmc9987 posted:I am working on a little intro animation for a youtube channel. I haven't been in the audio sourcing game in quite a while, can anyone here recommend a good free/cheap royalty-free SFX website? I need to find a short stinger for the intro, and the budget for this project is very tiny so subscribing to one of the larger SFX/music licensing websites isn't an option right now; I mainly just want something inexpensive or free that I can legally use. Prob best just to google royalty free stingers, you're going to need to pick one you like anyway
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Capntastic posted:The screenwriting thread is locked so I’ll drop this here, sorry: Syd Field.
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Turbinosamente posted:Is there an active general poetry thread? I was looking for a more casual style one like, say, the daily drawing thread, but all I can find is the semi defunct thunderdome one and a couple individual threads. I am nowhere near good enough for a contest thread is the thing. Start one! A daily poem thread would be dope.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I'm just venturing into the subforum, and about to ask some real dumb questions. Hi! Yeah, etiquette is fairly loose just don't be an idiot and you'll be fine. This is a relatively low traffic forum where most people stay in their large threads (like thunderdome, daily drawing, etc) so there's a risk if you make a thread it won't get much attention. However! Do it anyway, could be there are a bunch of people who are keen to see your poo poo and share their own! Alternatively, the daily drawing thread is active and a great place to post your stuff, the artdome thread has a bunch of good things, the chat thread won't mind whatever you want to do to it and I think there are a couple of other art threads that might suit. If you've got something you're particularly proud of head over to the travelling circus in PYF and post it there, our PYF friends are being super slack and need a bit of an example set for them.
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There's also the daily drawing thread, there are some poo poo hot artists in there.
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Mescal posted:How come my voice sounds crappy on my iphone while on speaker, but good when headphones with no mic are connected? Headphones have better sound repro than tiny speakers
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sound lines wiggly sound lines loving sound lines and they go up and down you know what I mean google the wiggly lines with the dot and it moves goigle I can't afford an anime work with me show me the goddam uppy downy scribble and its a sound wave
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I would start in the hundreds as an offer if they don't give you a ballpark, but yeah just troll through artist websites like deviantartart or maybe fiverr and send them a pm. Being paid to make art is the job, the only thing for you to do is be polite and realistic about asking and paying for it.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Is there a, like, "beginner's guide to cinematic cameras" that someone could recommend? The context is that I'm working on cinematics for my game. I'm looking really for something pretty short that lays out stuff like how to frame things so that the viewer doesn't get lost when you cut from camera A to camera B, what kinds of camera motion/rotation/zooming are appropriate, and of course any basics that I'm too uneducated to know to ask about. https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-camera-shots/ https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/film-studies-101-camera-shots-styles/ https://www.adorama.com/alc/14-basic-cinematography-techniques-for-better-cinematic-shots/ https://www.seenit.io/film-school/6-basic-camera-movements-and-why-they-matter/
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Not that I'm aware, feel free to make one! Though there might be a goons who blog thread, I seem to recall seeing one a while back
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Lamont posted:I'm trying to create a gallery on imgur (desktop site) but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do simple poo poo like add captions to images or even get a link to the gallery. Is this one of those rear end in a top hat things where they've deliberately made it unusable so you have to get the app? Just upload some photos, it should be fairly automatic? What have you tried?
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