(Complete) The Old Church Clock by Richard Parkinson - lt

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The Old Church Clock, by Richard Parkinson (1797 - 1858)

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A fictional "history" of Robert Walker, a dedicated clergyman in the English Lake District, this work, which started as a short magazine 'tale', examines how the lower echelons of the church produces dedicated, religious men, while those who head the church are self-serving and power hungry.
Source text (please read only from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61587

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[*]Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Parkinson_(priest) (Richard Parkinson)
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[*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 16
[*]Does the project have an introduction or preface: Yes
[*]Original publication date (if known): 1843
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Genres for the project: Religious Fiction/Christian Fiction

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Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.

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"Section (or Chapter) # of The Old Church Clock. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "The Old Church Clock, by Richard Parkinson. Section Title."
End of recording:
Say:
"End of section (or chapter) #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
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"End of The Old Church Clock, by Richard Parkinson."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.

Please ignore footnotes.
Pronunciation note: "Scaw Fell" should be pronounced "Scar Fell"


Filename: oldchurchclock_##_parkinson_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. oldchurchclock_01_parkinson_128kb.mp3)

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Post by BAMClockwise »

I can take a few chapters if they're still open. How about Chapters 1, 2, and 3?

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Post by Lynnet »

BAMClockwise wrote: April 1st, 2021, 6:49 pm I can take a few chapters if they're still open. How about Chapters 1, 2, and 3?

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Post by gridonyx »

I can do chapters 4 and 5

This is my first time contributing, so when recording, is it preferred that I read dialogue in my normal voice, or create voices for the characters? Or would that boil down to my own personal preference/abilities?
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Post by Lynnet »

gridonyx wrote: April 2nd, 2021, 5:38 am I can do chapters 4 and 5

This is my first time contributing, so when recording, is it preferred that I read dialogue in my normal voice, or create voices for the characters? Or would that boil down to my own personal preference/abilities?
I will assign those to you. Please be sure to read the first post.

As for accents/ voices it is largely up to the reader. But it is important to bear in mind that you should be consistent, which can be difficult, and also in a group project, different readers will approach the same characters differently. When I am reading, unless there are directions in the text (e.g. “ he said gruffly”), I avoid voices except I make male voices a bit lower, female voices in my normal voice and children’s voices higher. At least I think I do... people listening might not be able to tell the difference :lol: accents are difficult. Unless you are expert, you may end up offending people :(
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Post by gridonyx »

Lynnet wrote: April 2nd, 2021, 6:10 am
gridonyx wrote: April 2nd, 2021, 5:38 am I can do chapters 4 and 5

This is my first time contributing, so when recording, is it preferred that I read dialogue in my normal voice, or create voices for the characters? Or would that boil down to my own personal preference/abilities?
I will assign those to you. Please be sure to read the first post.

As for accents/ voices it is largely up to the reader. But it is important to bear in mind that you should be consistent, which can be difficult, and also in a group project, different readers will approach the same characters differently. When I am reading, unless there are directions in the text (e.g. “ he said gruffly”), I avoid voices except I make male voices a bit lower, female voices in my normal voice and children’s voices higher. At least I think I do... people listening might not be able to tell the difference :lol: accents are difficult. Unless you are expert, you may end up offending people :(
All good points, especially the last part about potentially offending people, haha. I think I'll refrain from doing full accents then and just do subtle changes to pitch/cadence. Thank you! :)
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Post by tekkao »

Please sign me up for section 0, the introduction.
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tekkao wrote: April 6th, 2021, 3:10 pm Please sign me up for section 0, the introduction.
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Will do!
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Post by johnb2 »

hi lynnet

14 & 15 please
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johnb2 wrote: April 6th, 2021, 3:52 pm hi lynnet

14 & 15 please
All yours
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DPL, please? 💝
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HandmadePSK wrote: April 10th, 2021, 6:00 pm DPL, please? 💝
Sure
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