Thread: Eye of the Daleks
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17th Nov 2008, 6:26 AM #101
Si wrote that line, so I've no idea.
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17th Nov 2008, 10:34 AM #102Wayne Guest
Ah!
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17th Nov 2008, 10:37 AM #103
I suspect it was a subconscious thing. I didn't do it deliberately. Dalek Dialogue just flowed out of me!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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18th Nov 2008, 12:48 AM #104Wayne Guest
Btw..... The link to 'Eye of the Daleks' in the PS Creativity/Audios section of the website doesn't work.
I wanted to grab the cover art to print myself a nice glossy cover for this one.....
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18th Nov 2008, 1:38 AM #105Pip Madeley Guest
Bizzare, it was there before, perhaps someone deleted it by accident. I've uploaded the page so it should be visible now.
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18th Nov 2008, 9:48 AM #106Wayne Guest
Thanks Pip. The page is there, but there's no cover art available.
Perhaps someone could e-mail the images to me if you're not making them available on the website? (beg/grovel)
Si did print me a cover when he sent the CD, but i want to print myself high quality front, inner, & back sleeves on glossy paper.
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18th Nov 2008, 9:53 AM #107
How odd, it's working here Wayne.
Try this link:
http://www.planetskaro.org.uk/creati...-frontwork.jpg
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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18th Nov 2008, 9:56 AM #108Wayne Guest
Thanks Si!
All i need now is the back cover.
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18th Nov 2008, 1:51 PM #109Pip Madeley Guest
The back cover hasn't been made available on the website (because the CD was an exclusive/limited edition) but I'll e-mail it to you this evening.
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19th Nov 2008, 12:25 AM #110Wayne Guest
Thanks Pip.
I'll let you know when i get it.
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19th Nov 2008, 12:30 AM #111Pip Madeley Guest
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19th Nov 2008, 12:33 AM #112Wayne Guest
Brilliant Pip, thanks!
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21st Nov 2008, 1:46 PM #113WhiteCrow Guest
I've finally caught up with this, and very impressed I was. One of the most professional sounding audios yet.
What's to love
* The Dalek voices were absolutely excellent.
* Lots of things aurally going on, making it quite dramatic.
* The scenes between Choo and Rob worked well - I'm right in remembering they were recorded on separate days?
* Della was an interesting idea, would have nice for him to have had a bit more of what was driving him. Not sure on Ant Williams interpretation that someone so devious and with a chip on his shoulder had to be from the North! [I am joking here]
* Fnubs death scene was excellent - death by Dalek effect can bring out some terrible acting.
* The music worked well to support the story instead of almost wrestling with it.
* The plosions are greatly reduced these days. Well done.
Some things I might have liked to be dealt with slightly differently ... don't treat them too much as critisism but instead how I'd have liked some elements to turn out differently ...
* Alas being so soon after Journey's End, there was something about the Daleks plot to use an artifact to dominate the rest of the Galaxy which felt a bit too similar too soon. I think to be fair though, most Dalek stories probably have something similar - they're out to conquor and destroy anyway.
* Didn't like how the Doctor seemed to abandon Nick. It felt very un-Doctor-like. I think it needed a line like "I'm putting you somewhere safe, with luck they won't find you." The Doctor doesn't abandon companions like that.
* Likewise the way Choo gave her life at the end. I felt the Doctor behaved a little un-Doctor-like. "I'm going to make Choo do this incredibly dangerous thing". It seemed really kind of uncaring.
I think it'd have worked better being the Doctor saying he's going to use the telepathic circuits to do something and it'll probably kill him, and Choo instead heroically does it first. That's my opinion obviously how I'd have liked to see those bits resolved. Doesn't mean it's right.
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21st Nov 2008, 2:01 PM #114* Didn't like how the Doctor seemed to abandon Nick. It felt very un-Doctor-like. I think it needed a line like "I'm putting you somewhere safe, with luck they won't find you." The Doctor doesn't abandon companions like that.
* Likewise the way Choo gave her life at the end. I felt the Doctor behaved a little un-Doctor-like. "I'm going to make Choo do this incredibly dangerous thing". It seemed really kind of uncaring.
Where's Paul?
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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21st Nov 2008, 2:40 PM #115WhiteCrow Guest
Last time I put some feedback on here I made the mistake of trying to explain where I was coming from with my comments, which turned it into a bit of a drama. I won't this time. I hope what I've said will be taken for the constructive critisism it's meant as.
You do make some valid counter-arguments there of course.
I was kind of a bit dissapointed with one element of the story. And this is all my fault. But I was for some reason expecting "Daleks vs Quarks", as the Dominators try and muscle in. I think I misread the promotion blurb - so "Daleks vs Krotons" was a bit "well when do the Quarks come in". However the Krotons made a lot more sense.
I need to brush up on my Troughton obviously.
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21st Nov 2008, 2:57 PM #116
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Alas being so soon after Journey's End, there was something about the Daleks plot to use an artifact to dominate the rest of the Galaxy which felt a bit too similar too soon. I think to be fair though, most Dalek stories probably have something similar - they're out to conquor and destroy anyway.
*Didn't like how the Doctor seemed to abandon Nick. It felt very un-Doctor-like. I think it needed a line like "I'm putting you somewhere safe, with luck they won't find you." The Doctor doesn't abandon companions like that.
The Doctor always intended to come back for him. He had an injured leg in a battlefield and the Doctor took a calculated risk in collecting the tardis first and leaving Nick on his own, rather than try to drag Nick across to the Tardis. Nick however misconstrued this as being abandoned.
*Likewise the way Choo gave her life at the end. I felt the Doctor behaved a little un-Doctor-like. "I'm going to make Choo do this incredibly dangerous thing". It seemed really kind of uncaring.
Ultimately I think the Doctor knew it was the only way to defeat the Daleks. He was fairly desperate and had no other back up plan.
*Della was an interesting idea, would have nice for him to have had a bit more of what was driving him.
I guess this is the difficulty with this type of action script. In an attempt to keep up the pace some of the more character bits end up getting sacrificed.
Anyway. Thanks for the criticisms, Mike. They're quite useful and this was my first stab at an audio so its good to take them on board and note them away for the future.
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21st Nov 2008, 3:00 PM #117I think I misread the promotion blurb - so "Daleks vs Krotons" was a bit "well when do the Quarks come in".
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21st Nov 2008, 3:28 PM #118WhiteCrow Guest
I really liked The Dominators! Although last time I tried watching it, I stalled after episode 2. The Dulkans are the race that fashion forgot. I know in the Sound of Music there's a great bit where Maria makes clothes for her children from curtains but all the same ...
Actually we should SO do the Quarks - we could have all the children of PS all provide the voices.
Glad you take what I'm saying in the spirit it's intended. I think though even looking at the official series, there are moments of the people involved going "I wish we'd done that bit a little differently".
By the way I thought I felt a couple of homages to Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy in there? I'm sure the sound effect for Marvin walking was used. And the scene where the Doc and Rob flee from the Daleks has a certain quality of Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect?
You realise though thanks to this, Allie will forever be "the old girl" at the heart of the TARDIS. She'll love you for that!
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21st Nov 2008, 3:55 PM #119Glad you take what I'm saying in the spirit it's intended.
The other was cringing slightly at all the flaws in the script which are easy to pick out in hindsight.
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21st Nov 2008, 3:59 PM #120
Sometimes you don't realise the flaws until you listen to it, or hear the actors saying the lines. I know I'm prone to writing awkward sentences at time, like "we had to spend 5 days searching for the bathroom..." when " we spent 5 days looking for the bathroom" would have been far better, but i didn't realise at the time. Sometime what is clear to you as the writer might not be immediately obvious to the listener when they hear it.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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21st Nov 2008, 4:02 PM #121
Exactly. And sometimes you can cringe and fret about a line like the example you've given but the listener doesn't even notice.
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21st Nov 2008, 4:08 PM #122
It's true. No-one else (aside from Steve who's had it pointed out to him) ever noticed the time in Heist! where i had to edit one of Ed's lines to add a "Jann" in when i cut out part of the scene. To me it jars every time I hear it because it obviously doesn't belong to the rest of the line, but I don't think anyone else has ever noticed it at all!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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21st Nov 2008, 5:23 PM #123WhiteCrow Guest
This isn't meant as a criticism - an honest question. But was there supposed to be something a little Scooby Doo gang about Della's gang? I had visions of Paul OD'd on Cartoon Network when writing it.
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21st Nov 2008, 7:05 PM #124WhiteCrow Guest
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22nd Nov 2008, 9:20 AM #125
It was Paul's line
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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