iamjessebaxter wrote: ↑February 28th, 2020, 8:18 pmI would like to read Pseudolus, if I may. (Sections 3, 4, 5, 6).
Hello Jesse (I am guessing that is your name) and welcome to LibriVox and the drama forum especially.
Always great to have new voices around. And I see you have claimed 6 different roles right away.
But first things first. The way to start is by doing a one-minute-test, to check that your technical specifications are all LV conform. You can read all about the test here:
https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php?title=1-Minute_Test
Then please upload and post the test in the Listeners Wanted forum:
viewforum.php?f=21 and someone will check it and give you feedback or advice if needed.
As soon as the test is ok'ed,
please post the results back here, and then I can assign you the sections officially. For that I would need to open a personal reader page for you, so please also tell me
which reader name you want to go by. Can be the same as the forum name or your real name, or whatever.
Finally, when you're all ready to roll, here are a few special guidelines for drama recording, which differ a bit from our ordinary projects in the forum:
1) you don't have to read an intro or outro disclaimer, this will be done by the narrator. Instead, record your
voice credit at the beginning of the file, which here should be: "Pseudolus, the servant of Simo, read by Jesse Baxter" (or whatever you want your reader name to be)
2) then browse through the text and
record all the lines you have to speak. It may not be necessary to read the whole play for a small role, but since you are tackling the main character here, getting familiar with the plot and especially what the others are saying around you would be essential, so you can better "react" to them and act out. Just be as expressive (according to the character) as you can in your role.
3) if there are
pointers in the text qualifying your voice, like [laughs] or [whines], an added bonus would be that you act those out in your reading, if possible, to make it all more interesting
4) and most importantly: please
leave enough space between each of your speeches, preferably 2-3 seconds. Even when you have the stage directions in the middle of your speech (for example: [sits down]), also leave 2 seconds of pause there, because our editor later on has to copy all your parts and paste them into his master file and it's helpful if he has enough space to fiddle with
That's is mainly. For the moment, I will reserve the sections for you
for one month, to give you time to sort out the test. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Good luck with the test and I hope to hear you soon in here and elsewhere.
Sonia