[COMPLETE] The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - AF/ce

tina · Post by **tina** » August 1st, 2006, 11:52 am

And about the librivox stuff, I haven't thought how we want to add them without disrupting the narrative, but perhaps we'd want an unconnected person to read it once and paste it in as needed. I can't imagine the Frederick Fairlie I just heard saying anything about librivox!

Walter is introducing the various parts, so we don't need that part of the librivox script, just the disclaimer and the public domain part. And perhaps a cast reading at the beginning and end of the entire work. What does everyone think?

Caeristhiona · Post by **Caeristhiona** » August 1st, 2006, 12:16 pm

What about dialogue? Should I keep a lookout for Marian dialogue, or just the letters?

tina · Post by **tina** » August 1st, 2006, 12:25 pm

No, we won't try and paste together dialogue from different people. Each narrator will read the dialogue in their section just as if you were telling a story about a conversation you remembered.

earthcalling · Post by **earthcalling** » August 1st, 2006, 12:44 pm

tina wrote:I do--and did!

What a creepy reading! I love it!

Thank you on both counts, Tina!

earthcalling · Post by **earthcalling** » August 1st, 2006, 12:45 pm

tina wrote:And about the librivox stuff, I haven't thought how we want to add them without disrupting the narrative, but perhaps we'd want an unconnected person to read it once and paste it in as needed. I can't imagine the Frederick Fairlie I just heard saying anything about librivox!

Walter is introducing the various parts, so we don't need that part of the librivox script, just the disclaimer and the public domain part. And perhaps a cast reading at the beginning and end of the entire work. What does everyone think?

That sounds exactly right!

tina · Post by **tina** » August 1st, 2006, 12:59 pm

I love how after Frederick is so hateful to everyone, the Count is able to charm and flatter him into behaving civilly.

tina · Post by **tina** » August 2nd, 2006, 12:16 pm

Good news everyone... WE HAVE A WALTER!

Tim Bulkeley has started recording for us. Due to the length of his part, the target completion date is 31 January 2007.

tim bulkeley · Post by **tim bulkeley** » August 2nd, 2006, 12:56 pm

I was a bit hesitant, as I've only done a couple of chapters (in The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin) before, but I tried the two sections at the start and it seemed to work, and Tina has heard them, so I'm in. I'll naturally try for earlier than the end of Jan, but since Dec-Jan is our summer holidays that seemed a safe date to have as the deadline. As a teacher I'd hate to hand an assignment in late ;-)

I got the two sections done last night as I had an unexpected free evening. If you want to hear them they are at:

1.II http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=556F780B2A58034F
1.III http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=8F68555F0D40F435

BTW Tina, to start with I am assuming I read the sections that are headed things like "THE STORY BEGUN BY WALTER HARTRIGHT" except I was not sure whether that very first bit, before the II, was me (third personing) or another narrator...

tina · Post by **tina** » August 2nd, 2006, 1:30 pm

The first section is a little odd, and at first I thought it was an anonymous narrator, but then there's this bit:

When the writer of these introductory lines (Walter Hartright by name) happens to be more closely connected than others with the incidents to be recorded, he will describe them in his own person.

So I think that means that Walter is introducing the opening in third person.

Caeristhiona · Post by **Caeristhiona** » August 2nd, 2006, 2:43 pm

Another question (sorry, but this is my first time doing a "drama"):

Should I record by chapter as usual, only leaving off the LibriVox disclaimer? Or should I give you a mega-gigantic recording of all 148 pages?

(I think I already know the answer to this one, but thought I would ask anyway...)

LenLen · Post by **LenLen** » August 2nd, 2006, 5:04 pm

Vincent Gilmore seems to still be open. Mind if I assume the role, Tina?

tina · Post by **tina** » August 2nd, 2006, 11:29 pm

Thrilled to have you, LenLen!

Caeristhiona, by chapter will be fine.

ianish · Post by **ianish** » August 5th, 2006, 1:42 am

I have posted five minutes of Count Fosco as an audition sample at
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=8BC5AE841AC43719
What a splendid melodrama villain he is!
ianish

tina · Post by **tina** » August 6th, 2006, 1:45 pm

Thanks, Ian! Great job.

I have your audition, and another that was PM'd to me. I will hold the auditioning open until Wednesday to see if anyone else is interested.

tim bulkeley · Post by **tim bulkeley** » August 7th, 2006, 1:57 am

I've done 1 IV and 1 V as well, so getting on well with ch.1. (That is, I've reqad about 10,000 words so far.) At this rate I should be done much sooner than January! Which would be good...