This is a master list of all my Christmas Doctor Who Commentaries I did in December, 2018.
Part 1: The Feast of Steven
Part 2: The Unquiet Dead
Part 3: The Christmas Invasion
Part 4: The Runaway Bride
Part 5: Voyage of the Damned
Part 6: The Next Doctor
Part 7: The End of Time Part One
Part 8: A Christmas Carol
Part 9: The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe
Part 10: The Snowmen
Part 11: The Time of the Doctor
Part 12: Last Christmas
In Conclusion
Sorry in advance for the audio. I forgot to set my audio out for a separate audio device (that is, my laptop speakers, which I listened to through headphones). As a result, I recorded the audio for the Doctor Who episode as well as my own. Ugh.
Anyway!
Join me as I comment all over the Kylie Minogue episode!
Rand rolls on to The Runaway Bride, 2006’s Doctor Who Christmas episode. Was Donna really that bad of a character her first time out? Were the pilotfish Santabots really that terrible? Is “Love Don’t Roam” really that bad of a song? Was the sonic screwdriver a magic wand by this point? Is Rand insane?
Find out!
In part three of this ongoing Christmas insanity, Rand watches and comments all over The Christmas Invasion, David Tennant’s first episode of Doctor Who.
Whereas “The Christmas Invasion” is officially the first Christmas episode of BBC Wales Doctor Who, “The Unquiet Dead” is the first BBC Wales Doctor Who episode to take place at Christmas. As such, Rand is moving on to that episode next. Join Rand in rewatching one of Mark Gatiss’ best episodes.
Rand al’Thor is doing something insane for this year’s Christmas, here at the end of 2018. Rand is doing solo commentaries on all of the Doctor Who Christmas episodes (either those that are Christmas-themed or aired on Christmas Day). Will Rand make it through all of these episodes okay? Even the Moffat episodes, including some Rand’s never before watched (*cough*Last Christmas *cough*)
Episode 1: The Feast of Steven. Join Rand while watching the only Christmas episode from the original series, the forever-lost, never-to-be-recovered Feast of Steven, episode seven of The Daleks’ Master Plan!
It’s been a long, long, long time since I ended the Marble Operator podcast. Part of that was due to our core subject series, Marble Hornets, ending, another part was due to my life going completely insane and me no longer having any way of doing conference calls and recording new episodes. Part of that was depression and me just assuming no one ever wants to associate with me. Part of that is me assuming everyone else has just moved on, and me being too terrified of making any effort of reestablishing contact, reopening communication channels. Part of that is too much time passing in silence, life moving on, people moving apart.
I recorded this as a way of maybe starting that communication process. I’d like to get back in contact with former Marble Operator co-hosts: Rion (I’m still in some sort of contact with), Logan, John, Erica, Katie, Abby, Kaitlyn. I’d like to speak with you all again. Catch up on our lives. Maybe do a reunion show.
We’ll see. I’m sorry for being silent for so long.
Rand reviews the last episode of Doctor Who series 11, “The Battle of Ranskoor av Kolos”, as well as series 11 as a whole.
Music beds in this episode include, in order:
“Walk on the Wild Side” – DJ Disse
“Breezin'” – Blank & Jones
“Bosaxi” – Jose Padilla
“Calling” – CMG
“A Drifting Up” – Jon Hopkins
“Peace & Friendship” – Nouri
Now in exile, Rand must find an alternative means of getting an audio review of a new Doctor Who episode to the public. This means a new Radio Free Caemlyn episode, so here it is! Rand reviews the latest (and probably the last good, for a long while) episode of Doctor Who.
Here’s a brief pulling back of the curtains, looking behind the scenes, of how I make my sound collages.
First of all, I make them all in Adobe Audition. I tried to use Audacity, but it just cannot handle the processing of these collages, and it lacks a playlist feature like Audition has.
First step is to open a music track to use as a source for loops. For this example, I’m using Joy Division’s “Atmosphere”. I really like the drums at the start, so I’ve zoomed in on that. Just need to highlight to copy/paste to a new sound file.
There, now I’ve got a loop segment. Next step is to open a new multitrack session, so I can have a canvas on which to make this new collage.
Once done, I can start dropping stuff into the multitrack session. Here, I’ve put a few instances of that Atmosphere loop. I’ve crossfaded to make it sound a bit better looped and also to try and hide the cut.
Next step is to find a voice sample. This isn’t always the next step, but for this example it is. I’ve got a clip from Hal Hartley’s movie “Surviving Desire”.
Let’s drop that into its own audio track on the multitrack session. It’s longer than the loops I’ve put in, so I’ve added some more loops to cover the sample. We’ve got the start of a sound collage now.
Next step could be anything. More Atmosphere samples, loops from something else, add stuff, subtract stuff. Go in any direction. That’s the fun of these, the journey. I never know how these will turn out, and it’s never how I intend from the start.
By the way, here’s what I made in this brief example.
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