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« Reply #15 on: August 31, 2012, 02:20:35 AM » |
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I love the part right at the end where the narrator relays "what they say [he] said" as he raved in his delirium, and the way it gradually regresses through Jacobean English to Middle English, Old English, Latin, some sort of Celtic dialect and finally a completely incomprehensible proto-language...it's pretty unrealistic though, I mean would you be able to accurately record what someone was saying - or semi-coherently ranting, even - in a language you don't speak? It's still an effective passage for all that, a great demonstration of the atavistic reversion that Lovecraft liked to use so often, and a kind of verbal analogue of the building itself, being a palimpsest of buildings stretching back from the middle ages to distant antiquity. Me too - though a lot of the purely visual stuff is so hard to get into audio unless you resort to:
Expert - Look! It's a romaneqsue substrate!
Expert2 - I know that.
Expert - But that stone base, that must be of druidical or ante-druidical provenance.
Expert2 - yes. I know.
Expert - in between is a saxon sort of layer.
Expert2 - Stop telling me things I already know. You're annoying.
I think a good way to handle this sort of thing is to have a character writing up a report of some kind, perhaps the abstract for an academic paper or a chapter in a book on local history, with the author's voice done as a voiceover while s/he's typing. |
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JulieH
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« Reply #16 on: August 31, 2012, 10:41:02 AM » |
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ARCHITECT: I love to examine this strange relic of forgotten centuries!
COUNTRY FOLK: (in unison) We hate it!
We hates it, give us the precious. </gollum> Lovecraft of the Rings ? [/quote] One does not simply WALK into R'Lyeh! |
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JulieH
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« Reply #17 on: August 31, 2012, 11:32:04 AM » |
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I love the part right at the end where the narrator relays "what they say [he] said" as he raved in his delirium, and the way it gradually regresses through Jacobean English to Middle English, Old English, Latin, some sort of Celtic dialect and finally a completely incomprehensible proto-language...it's pretty unrealistic though, I mean would you be able to accurately record what someone was saying - or semi-coherently ranting, even - in a language you don't speak?
It's still an effective passage for all that, a great demonstration of the atavistic reversion that Lovecraft liked to use so often, and a kind of verbal analogue of the building itself, being a palimpsest of buildings stretching back from the middle ages to distant antiquity.
Oh, that speech is the entire reason i want to adapt this story. I think a good way to handle this sort of thing is to have a character writing up a report of some kind, perhaps the abstract for an academic paper or a chapter in a book on local history, with the author's voice done as a voiceover while s/he's typing.
It's one of many that have all been done to death. LOL. I use a lot of what i call "color text" - voiceover bits between scenes that don't actually effect the story, or necessarily inform the listener, but are purely for the "feel' they convey. I'm still leaning toward eeeerie-voice montage. |
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« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2012, 08:55:57 AM » |
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Dang, sorry i've been off-board for a while. So my late chime in is that I remember the "flabby fungus beasts" and the "demon swineherd" are the things that stand out the most to me. The idea of humans being devolved into lower lifeforms is kind of creepy, but the idea that they are so far gone as to be fungoid is just horrible. The image I've had in my head since I read that passage updates from time to time, but is still repugnant.
Bob
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If someone ever dares you to read the Necronomicon out loud... just say no.
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« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2012, 12:40:34 PM » |
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Don't worry, I'm still working on the script. LOL
Fingers crossed i have it done for Halloween
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« Reply #20 on: September 28, 2012, 07:42:29 PM » |
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The idea of humans being devolved into lower lifeforms is kind of creepy, but the idea that they are so far gone as to be fungoid is just horrible. That's an interesting take on it. I always took that part to mean that they were just so filthy that they had moss and toadstools and crap growing on them. |
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« Reply #21 on: September 30, 2012, 01:51:54 AM » |
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Dang, sorry i've been off-board for a while. So my late chime in is that I remember the "flabby fungus beasts" and the "demon swineherd" are the things that stand out the most to me. The idea of humans being devolved into lower lifeforms is kind of creepy, but the idea that they are so far gone as to be fungoid is just horrible. The image I've had in my head since I read that passage updates from time to time, but is still repugnant.
Bob
Yeah, that's a great concept, to be sure. This might just be nitpicking but Lovecraft actually uses the adjective "fung ous" (it's one of his favourites, look out for it in other stories) which I think means more or less "redolent of decay" rather than strictly fungal. But it's a brilliantly evocative description nonetheless. I like the interpretation in the Lovecraft Bestiary on Yog-Blogsoth:  |
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« Reply #22 on: October 01, 2012, 10:17:39 AM » |
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But that doesn't take into account the still-roughly-human bones of a quadruped persuasion....
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« Reply #23 on: October 08, 2012, 01:59:34 PM » |
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Oh, thank nyarly it's finally done. I swear this script has been like giving birth - and I had to just conceded and leave in a number of passages of direct text, bouncing the lines between various voices, for the visual descriptions.
It was driving me maaaaaad.
And now... more driving of the mad, since I have two weeks to produce an entire hour long program. Including getting the actors to record.
Jinkies.
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« Reply #24 on: October 08, 2012, 08:58:25 PM » |
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Go Team Madness  Can't wait to listen. |
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"We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many columned Y'ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever."
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« Reply #25 on: October 22, 2012, 02:00:01 AM » |
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My adaptation is completed, and will run in the final hour of Transcontinental Terror (a six hour halloween event presented by six different audio drama groups). It will then be posted to me feed on November 1.
Whew! That was a lot of work...
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« Reply #27 on: November 05, 2012, 09:22:03 PM » |
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Woohoo ! |
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"We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many columned Y'ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever."
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« Reply #29 on: November 09, 2012, 06:17:07 AM » |
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Nice work! Just listening now. Love the background music and atmospherics. Calling the cat 'Blackie' - excellent decision. |
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