Don't know why but... after looking this sequence i remebered the movie "EVENT HORIZON"

Ooh another space movie I haven't seen!

Well technically is more than a "space" movie, is more the kind of "SUNSHINE"

I dunno what that means so I'll take your word for it!


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Yay, voices for episode 3 are done. But I still have to do lip-synching and music, which probably means I won't have the episode done until Monday.

I was wondering for a while if I should put radio-type static on voices that come through an intercom or ship communication channel, but, like I didn't want to put normal analog static on a broadcast image, I also don't want to do it for sounds, since all this communication stuff should be digital for these people. So, similar to how I sneak in a little flash of a lower-resolution image on a broadcast face, after some experimentation, I found that you can get that "over the airwaves" digital effect simply by downsampling the voice sound file to a lower sample rate--effective *and* a bandwidth-saver, how convenient!

Here's an example of that, and one of the frames that goes with it:

Normal version

"Digital broadcast" version



Subtle, but helps distinguish the speakers in a conversation when one's local and one's remote. How's my neo-Southern drawl?

As usual, lines where Vero's shouting proved the most challenging. There are three in a row with him shouting toward the end of this episode (that Vero and his temper!), and I dunno, I probably came close to 100 takes and a sore throat just trying to get those to come out like I wanted--and who knows what my neighbors think of me at this point. In order to try to keep up my spirits I saved a few of outtakes for you. Not only did I sometimes just say the line wrong, I even started getting so confused I was mixing the lines together midway through!

Vero swearing outtake 1: bad reading

Vero swearing outtake 2: mixing lines



Oh, the hilarity! I think I'm just bad at swearing. =P

Lip-synching is done, so all I should have left is the music. I'll need some pieces that are more intense than most of those I've used previously, since the whole episode is a emergency situation. Should be interesting!

Well running a pre-music Flash test of episode 3 revealed that my too-clever scheme of getting a transmission effect for voices over the radio, intercoms, etc by lowering their bit-rate was not going to work, since Flash resamples and compresses all the audio when it converts the episode into an actual Flash file, and the resampling of the already downsampled lines resulted in a much uglier effect than I was going for. :P

So I think I'll go with this rather more traditional spacey transmission type of audio filter:

Original

Spacey filtered!

Space!