We're Online!

Hey all! So our Hamlet audiobook is now on Youtube! I put all of the recording that Amy edited together, set a background and uploaded it. Now the whole world can enjoy our version of Hamlet!

Thanks for all the hard work everyone put in and I will see you all at the showcase tonight!

That's a Wrap!

We're done recording! We definitely got much more comfortable and in character as we recorded more and so I'm pretty excited about the final product! We just need to piece all of the recording snippets together and Amy has been kind enough to volunteer to do that using Garage Band. So that should be ready by Thursday!

As far as presenting the audiobook goes I'm not really sure how we are going to do that. I guess we can just show a snippet for a sample and then show people how to get to the book on the internet so that they can listen to it!

Or like was suggested in class we can use parts as some of the trivia questions....

Gertrude Reading

Just a quick update. I read over the script and so I now I know my lines, well I've read them. I'm really hoping to go over it again and just get more comfortable with them. I just want to get to know Gertrude more if you know what I mean.

Overall I think we did really well with our script cut. I think we managed our goal of keeping the plot true while having key components.

I've also just realized how little time in school/class we actually have left! It's crazy but I think we should be able to get through the recording all right it will definitely just take a lot of dedication.

Yep! Those are just my thoughts for now. Sorry I forgot to post on Tuesday!

Hamlet: Script Cut!

Just as a quick final project update, I cut my portion of the script and it was actually more difficult than I thought it would be. It is hard to decide what lines carry the most weight and how you can skip lines and yet still have the scene flow. Anyways I think it worked and here is a link to our script!

Hamlet Listening and Speaking

So in preparation for Thursday I looked up some audio-book and performance recordings of Hamlet. I looked here and simply listened to the first 7 recordings just to get an idea of variety. These are a few things that I found that we might want to consider:

• Narration - a few of the productions had a narrator who explained what was happening up to this point and then even said when characters entered and such. If we decide we want a narrator I don't think we should take it that far, but instead do sound effects of people moving. ---- An interesting note, one of the productions started off as though we were actually in the Globe Theater watching the production...not sure how I feel about that still.
• Voice - there were different voices for different characters and as we discussed this is highly effective.
• Sound Effects
• Explanations - one version actually had explanations of what words and phrases meant, personally I didn't really like it and it was distracting from the plot.

On another note I tried a cold reading of just a few different lines of Gertrude's. Here's a taste!