Podficcing friends
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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2c2jVtr:
librarychick94:
cellardoortumbles:
roane72:
Where can I get some pointers on er, how to podfic smut? I really really really kinda want to podfic Natural Leadership, but I don’t want it to be laughable. @cellardoortumbles? anybody?
*waves*
I feel like the best smutty podfics are the ones where the reader doesn’t go super over the top with the delivery – when they let the smut speak for itself, as it were :-p Zoetrope’s really great at this; her delivery always manages to come across as totally sexy while never crossing the line into uncomfortable/over the top territory.
Bottom line: you don’t have to make a bunch of sexy noises, try to emulate every character’s exact tone of voice, sigh, moan, etc. for it to sound sexy! Have fun with it and definitely place some, erm, emphasis where emphasis is due, but yeah, don’t worry too much about making a sex scene sound like a sex scene, if that makes sense.
I think I’ve gone a bit over the top in some of my pods in the past, and looking back that’s probably something I would have done a bit differently. The prose tends to speak for itself just fine 99% of the time, with a little help from the performer ;)
I’m not saying that I’m good at it, but I have definitely recorded some explicit stories! Practice reading the sexy bits out loud it a very good idea. I’ve found that when authors write actual dialogue and sex sounds it is harder to read out loud. If you are comfortable reading it out loud, you should do fine!
If you want to listen to how I handle it, check out one of the podfics rated mature or explicit on my podfic page on AO3. I think my favorite sex scenes to read out loud that felt more natural, were the ones in the A Farm in Iowa ‘verse. My least favorite/felt more uncomfortable were the ones in Other Plans. I adore both series, but Other Plans had more verbal sex scenes, which felt more awkward to me. Your experience may differ!
ha oh gosh oh no. i have wondered about this. I really have.
I don’t know how I feel about realizing this about my sex scenes.
I am unsurprised by this revelation, though, somehow, that I have difficult-to-podfic sex scenes. Oh man.
librarychick94:
cellardoortumbles:
roane72:
Where can I get some pointers on er, how to podfic smut? I really really really kinda want to podfic Natural Leadership, but I don’t want it to be laughable. @cellardoortumbles? anybody?
*waves*
I feel like the best smutty podfics are the ones where the reader doesn’t go super over the top with the delivery – when they let the smut speak for itself, as it were :-p Zoetrope’s really great at this; her delivery always manages to come across as totally sexy while never crossing the line into uncomfortable/over the top territory.
Bottom line: you don’t have to make a bunch of sexy noises, try to emulate every character’s exact tone of voice, sigh, moan, etc. for it to sound sexy! Have fun with it and definitely place some, erm, emphasis where emphasis is due, but yeah, don’t worry too much about making a sex scene sound like a sex scene, if that makes sense.
I think I’ve gone a bit over the top in some of my pods in the past, and looking back that’s probably something I would have done a bit differently. The prose tends to speak for itself just fine 99% of the time, with a little help from the performer ;)
I’m not saying that I’m good at it, but I have definitely recorded some explicit stories! Practice reading the sexy bits out loud it a very good idea. I’ve found that when authors write actual dialogue and sex sounds it is harder to read out loud. If you are comfortable reading it out loud, you should do fine!
If you want to listen to how I handle it, check out one of the podfics rated mature or explicit on my podfic page on AO3. I think my favorite sex scenes to read out loud that felt more natural, were the ones in the A Farm in Iowa ‘verse. My least favorite/felt more uncomfortable were the ones in Other Plans. I adore both series, but Other Plans had more verbal sex scenes, which felt more awkward to me. Your experience may differ!
ha oh gosh oh no. i have wondered about this. I really have.
I don’t know how I feel about realizing this about my sex scenes.
I am unsurprised by this revelation, though, somehow, that I have difficult-to-podfic sex scenes. Oh man.
