About The Sherlock Holmes Readings and Videos

[VidThreeNorth]

I thought I would create a separate topic about the current reading files. Some of them started as videos (of me actually doing the readings). Those were never meant to remain in that state. I stripped the image portions of most of those files. In the long run, I plan to create new image content embedded in the files, creating new videos. There will not be any new "actors". I am hoping to find old public domain images of scenes of old England, preferably related to the stories to include. Dress fashions would be interesting. I am not a fashionable person, but I will do my best. The same goes for buildings and other artifacts.

Unfortunately, my first efforts to find such photos has not gone well, so if you have any ideas of where I could find them, please mention them.

As of today, I have posted files that complete two full stories ("The Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Blue Carbuncle", I will not be attempting to complete stories for the rest of the year. I do plan to post a couple of "Start Files", which are short posts of the first paragraphs of stories. This does not look like it will go well. Conan Doyle's writing style seems to stretch the early parts of a story so that the main action takes pages to get done. I will try to create the "start files", but I'm not sure how it will work out.

 

[otherprof]

I thought I would create a separate topic about the current reading files. Some of them started as videos (of me actually doing the readings). Those were never meant to remain in that state. I stripped the image portions of most of those files. In the long run, I plan to create new image content embedded in the files, creating new videos. There will not be any new "actors". I am hoping to find old public domain images of scenes of old England, preferably related to the stories to include. Dress fashions would be interesting. I am not a fashionable person, but I will do my best. The same goes for buildings and other artifacts.

Unfortunately, my first efforts to find such photos has not gone well, so if you have any ideas of where I could find them, please mention them.

As of today, I have posted files that complete two full stories ("The Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Blue Carbuncle", I will not be attempting to complete stories for the rest of the year. I do plan to post a couple of "Start Files", which are short posts of the first paragraphs of stories. This does not look like it will go well. Conan Doyle's writing style seems to stretch the early parts of a story so that the main action takes pages to get done. I will try to create the "start files", but I'm not sure how it will work out.

You might want to check in with the Hounds of the Internet, a scion society of the Baker Street Irregulars. When I was a member I found them a friendly and almost all-knowing bunch of enthusiasts. One of the members was the attorney handling the legal aspects of the estate of Jean Conan Doyle.

 

[VidThreeNorth]

You might want to check in with the Hounds of the Internet, a scion society of the Baker Street Irregulars. When I was a member I found them a friendly and almost all-knowing bunch of enthusiasts. One of the members was the attorney handling the legal aspects of the estate of Jean Conan Doyle.

Thanks! I'll look into that when I have time. I'm a bit busy right now. . . .

 

[VidThreeNorth]

About the Boscombe Valley Mystery Part 2 file:

I have posted the link in:

Sherlock Holmes Videos and Audio files

"A Scandal in Bohemia" reading files I recently started making audio voice recording projects. There were a few reasons for this. I did not know what my voice might sound like using my current equipment. I had not practiced how far away I should place a mic or how loud I should speak. I had...

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The first 10 min. was a bit rough but beyond that it got better. It is long (over 45 min). This has been something I have wondered about. Holmes stories tend to run over an hour. Lately I have been trying to divide them into two parts. If anyone has a preference please reply here.

 

[Rickbb]

Make a podcast series break them up into 10 min installments. Just my 2 cents.

 

[VidThreeNorth]

Make a podcast series break them up into 10 min installments. Just my 2 cents.

I have been thinking about this idea since you posted it and I'm still undecided. It turns out to be a complicated choice.

1. I found out that I have no way to download a YouTube post. This was a surprise because I thought I had that capability.

2. I don't want to clutter my hard drive with a lot of files. It slows down the drive, and/or wastes drive space.

3. If I store files off, the only way I have right now is to burn DVD-RW discs (my main computer is not working, but if I had it working then I could burn Blu-ray RE's which are 5x more data). But either way, I have to store the shiny discs someplace.

4. And of course the shiny discs cost money.

Combine all this and I am stuck w/trying to keep as much as possible on my current working computer's HD, and keeping the current arrangement of making the files as few as possible, which means, unfortunately, keeping the sizes larger.

Anyway, I'm still thinking about it. I could change my mind.

 

[VidThreeNorth]

I eventually finished a read of "Boscombe Valley" (Part 2 is posted). I was not entirely happy with the quality of the read, but I have decided to push onward to the "Five Orange Pips" story. The issue was whether reading quality was important or variety of stories? I intended that people would get a copy of the book and read along, so it seems to me that for now, "variety of stories" is more important. But after the "Five Orange Pips" story, I think I will probably go back a few and replace old files with "improved" files. The first few stories took a lot more of my time because I re-read them a few times to post better files. I think I want to get back to that higher quality. Anyway, that's my current goal.