More help needed

[Ross Scott]

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I've been flooded with promising offers in all categories since I made this post. I think if I get anymore I'll just get overwhelmed and will have to send a bunch of rejection emails to new people. I still need to review all the emails and reply to everyone. Thanks to everyone who contacted me about this or was planning to.

 

The exception is that I'm still accepting help for the forum integration. While I have received a couple hopeful emails, more input / offers in this area won't hurt, especially since the forum still isn't up.

 

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I was hoping to avoid making this post, but I feel like production is getting stalled some again and I need more help to get things done. Help is needed in multiple areas and I would appreciate anyone who might be able to give me a hand. Unfortunately my managerial skills are still lacking, so choosing who to pick for working on different tasks may be a bit haphazard, but I'll try and reply to everyone who contacts me. Any work that gets used will receive due credit. If you've contacted me once offering help with any of these areas already, feel free to contact me again. Here are the sections I currently need help with:

 

SOUND EDITING:

 

I'm going a little crazy about trying to finish "The Tunnel" and right now the biggest area that still needs work is sound editing and effects. Right now if all the sound effects were completed, I think the episode could be completely finished in 24-48 hours. I'd really like to get this done in the next week if possible. Otto Beumelberg has been doing a fantastic job on the scenes so far, but as this episode is the longest one to date, I think it may be a bit overwhelming for one person (myself included). Nowadays usually just the dialogue is recorded in-game for Civil Protection, with everything else being added in editing. You would need to have experience doing volume balancing, position mixing, and providing different sound effects as needed (it won't be anything too exotic). Some reverb mixing may also be needed, but the levels for the remaining scenes are relatively light. I will ask to listen to some prior example of your work to get an idea of your skill level. While speedy work would be great, I'll be more concerned with how the final result sounds.

 

FORUM INTEGRATION:

 

I'm eager to launch the forums as soon as possible, but some of the people working on it have become busy and there's still a big problem to solve before they do get launched. The basic problem is that I want to have news posts that are made in Wordpress to be duplicated as threads in the forum somehow. Ideally, they could be sorted into different cateories related on the topic. If you know of how to accomplish this, please let me know, I could use the help. I believe we're going with phpBB for the forum, but I've heard BBpress can also be good. As long as you can achieve the functionality I'm after for the forum, I'm open-minded as to what software is used. Comment and user crossover information would be desireable, but not required.

 

VOICE ACTING:

 

Some of these won't be required for a while, but I wanted to try and start auditioning people early in case it takes a while to find someone. These will probably all be one-time roles I'm afraid (for now), but they will get your name in the credits if they're used. You don't have to actually match these character descriptions (though it will help), just be capable of sounding like them. All roles are likely to require some degree of shouting. Having some means of voice chat is preferred, but not required. Here are the character descriptions:

 

1. Male, age anywhere from 30s to 60s. Sleazy sounding character, preferably with a stereotypical New Jersey accent. Should sound somewhat older, bossy, and aggressive. I'll need this role sooner than the others.

 

2. Black male, age from later 20s to 40s. Just a typical black american accent. No stereotypes will be involved for this role, but the character model will be black, so the speaker should have a characteristic black voice. There are some inflection differences from you honkies.

 

3. Female, age 20s to 30s. Looking for a standard "Valley Girl" accent, not too young-sounding. Nothing too overdone, just having the obvious accent. Here's a

I found of it.

 

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If you can help me in any of these areas, please send me an email to [email protected]. I haven't forgotten about everyone else's emails either, but emails related to video production take priority with me over more casual ones. If you emailed me a couple months ago, there's still a good chance I'm going to reply to you, I'm still far behind on that.

[unknown user]

there are other guys that make mind series and they could help you with the voices.

[unknown user]

I hope you find the right people, Ross! It must be such a hard job

Also to the above comment, I also agree there, I'm sure they'd help you!

 

The girl from Chel's mind is pretty talented, IMO. Ask them!

 

Best of luck to all of you working on this!

[unknown user]

I agree with all of this. The guy that does Shepherd's mind could also help you especially.

[unknown user]

Arg, it's times like this I wish I was all Technology Know-how. I understand, but I don't know how.

 

Well, I hope that you get the help that you need.

[unknown user]

Yeah, you could get the Master minds to do some voices for you. They'd probably do it so long as you agree to do a Skype-chat session with them.

[unknown user]

Yeah. Freeman's mind could use a bit more electrified toxic waste...

[unknown user]

For the love of god Ross do one thing at once!

You're not a female, so you can't multitask, stop trying!

 

If you keep this up you'll end up completely burning yourself out.

[unknown user]

Wow, I wish I fit some of those descriptions. Or had a mic of some kind. Or knew something about sound editing. As it stands, I'm no help at all. Sorry.

[unknown user]

Personally I'm glad I don't fit the description "30s to 60s. Sleazy sounding character"

[unknown user]

None of us could really help out in that category, although I -guess- I could attempt a black accent, seeing as how I already sound enough like one.

[unknown user]

I guess that's true. Maybe he should put up that donation thing. I mean, I'd be no help there either, I'm broke... but I'd still look at it and think "someone's probably helping". That's good enough for me.

[unknown user]

"You’re not a female, so you can’t multitask"

Not that myth again

[unknown user]

I'm in the same boat for wishing I could help with the things he listed in the post above, but not being able to - I don't know that much about forum software (aside from moderation on PHPBB and PunBB), I don't do sound editing, I have a cheap desktop mic and 20 is the wrong age, and I'm not a voice actor. xD

 

Still, a fair few people browse this site it would seem from the comments, so I would assume it's just a matter of time before the right people are found.

[unknown user]

posted it at Freeman's Mind Lovers group on steam.. only about 400 people there but i hope someone can help!

[unknown user]

im certanly no expert in the matter,

but if nobody else is helping you and you need something done like RIGHT NOW i could help you with some sound/video editing, given that is not something too complex.

i know i should send an email, but i think someone with more experience could help you better. this is just in case you need help, as i said before, right now and nobody with experience has volunteered

good luck with the episode!

[unknown user]

Yeah I know - females can't multitask either, it's an urban legend

[unknown user]

I emailed you. I'm good with PHP and web development, and I could try with the forum integration.

[unknown user]

i wonder if any of those ideas were related to the e-mail i sent to ross under the hotmail c***67#[email protected]. heres the e-mail.

"Dear Mr.Scott (or whomever it may concern),

 

 

I have always wondered if you would ever make Mike and Dave into a trio for an episode or two. Now when i say this i most certiantly DO NOT want to be a voice actor, I'm just wondering if you have ever considered adding another character, somebody Dave met online or something, and it turns out to be somebody totally crazy, like more than dave.

[unknown user]

P.S. the e-mail ended after more than dave. altough Ross never replied