JOIT: Podcast Update

Episode 1 is being recorded!

Introductory gumph and waffle mostly done, and actual commentary on a episode has started. A little odd doing this solo, but it sort of works. Story we are starting with is in light of RegenerGate or whatever it has been called (the SJA fiasco regarding the regeneration limit of Time Lords) is the Classic Who story, The Deadly Assasin, written by the legend that is Robert Holmes. Hopefully I'll remember it's written by him and talk a little about the dialogue, rather than pull the camera work apart! A cracking story and hopefully I'll find my stride somewhere before the end of the serial.

I think the way it will work is podcast Episode 1 will be Part One of the story. Episode 2 will be Part Two. This to me makes sense and seems logical. Alot of the other Doctor Who podcasts out there (and I dearly love you all) are sometimes a little ungainly, coming in at a couple of hours apiece, which, don't get me wrong, is fine as some of the 'casts are the equivalent of actual radio programming but in one sitting it's a bit much. Particularly for this, an episode commentary. It allows you to fetch another beer, more nibbles, gather cake, or more importantly nip to the loo. Thus the podcasts shouldn't last too much longer than a standard episode of Doctor Who. I hope.

Who knows. We shall see!

Let me know your thoughts!

Rx

The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith - Part One Transcript

Part One Transcript follows with some corrected spellings and grammar and shiz!


Brace yourselves! For the next little while, Twitter will go all #SJA as I do an unplanned Tweetamentary on Temptation of SJS #TemptationSJA

Here goes. A #SJA story I've not seen too! Play NOW! #TemptationSJA #SJA

It's Harry Potter! #TemptationSJA #SJA

You're not staring into time, you're staring at a green screen. #TemptationSJA #SJA

An anomoly in time. Where are the Reapers? #TemptationSJA #SJA

The Trickster! That bald faced bastard of Time! #TemptationSJA #SJA

Cool lighting on the actors faces to show the time rift and lack of #TemptationSJA #SJA

Let's shoehorn young and hip cultural references into the script. Unless Steve Wright is a villain from Classic Who #TemptationSJA #SJA

Where does the other door in Sarah Jane's attic lead to? #TemptationSJA #SJA

Is that the photograph we've never seen before until, oh wait, the last episode where they realised they hadn't seeded it? #TemptationSJA #SJA

Very unconvincing? Like your acting then? Ooh burn! lol #TemptationSJA #SJA

Mugged by your own son! #TemptationSJA #SJA

Who are they? Actors we hired to be photoshopped. #TemptationSJA #SJA

Aunt Lavinia for the win! #TemptationSJA #SJA

See? Asbo families existed back before this generation. #TemptationSJA #SJA

Careful Sarah Jane, you don't want to sonic your face off. Oh wait. You own real lipstick. #TemptationSJA #SJA

Go on Lukey Boy. Explain the Blinovitch Limitation Effect to the kids. #TemptationSJA #SJA

How did they not see The Trickster just standing there? Not even appearing. He's just standing next to them! #TemptationSJA #SJA

Who Do You Think You Are? with Sarah Jane Smith in 3D #TemptationSJA #SJA

The kid can't be Harry Potter. He's not annoying enough. Yet. There's still time. #TemptationSJA #SJA

Is there anything Clyde can't use his name to describe? Clydey sense? #TemptationSJA #SJA

Mr Smith opening/waking up never gets old. Alexander Armstrong ftw! #TemptationSJA #SJA

Clyde's script analysis. : I don't like how that sentence ended. Why? Grammar seemed fine. #TemptationSJA #SJA

Clyde forshadowing Matt Smith with a lovely mispronunciation of Graske! #TemptationSJA #SJA

Bloody hell! Sarah Jane was a massive baby! How is that possible on rationing? #TemptationSJA #SJA

Oh right, cos Luke keeps pre decimalised currency in his pocket. What's that, a hobby? #TemptationSJA #SJA

Well, it seems allowing odd stuff is in the Smith DNA. SJ's mum allows odd money. Is her dad the guy from Basil Brush? #TemptationSJA #SJA

Ewww! Luke and Sarah Jane are married! #TemptationSJA #SJA

Harry Potter Kid is really nicely sinister. #TemptationSJA #SJA

Ah ha! It's SJ's fault for single parent families. She introduced the concept in 1951! #TemptationSJA #SJA

With that degree of stalkage, what would Eddie Smith have done with Twitter? #TemptationSJA #SJA

Argh! Autons! Oh wait, stand down. Real dummies. And I don't mean Rani. #TemptationSJA #SJA

Jumanji indeed. Robin Williams just earned 2 pence then. #TemptationSJA #SJA

I like SJ's dad but her mum is a litle odd. Glad they wrote in a line about moving there to explain her accent. #TemptationSJA #SJA

Excellent location work for this story. Wonder how much work they had to do to make it look old? #TemptationSJA #SJA

It's convenient that the nearest car in the village is the one needed in the story. I want one. #TemptationSJA #SJA

Bit of a jump. Peladon and nothing until Bubbleshock? Meanie SJ! #TemptationSJA #SJA

Engine damage effect looks uncannily like someone shagging in a car, albeit briefly. #TemptationSJA #SJA

Bad Harry Potter Kid. #TemptationSJA #SJA

It's flibbly headed Graske Man! Woo! How stupid must that kid have felt thrashing about? #TemptationSJA #SJA

Awesome CGI of post apocalyptic London. Didn't realise Sarah Jane lived on Westminster Bridge however. #TemptationSJA #SJA

Is Greenford really an underground station? Why make one up? Ealing is a real place, unlike Walford. #TemptationSJA #SJA

Well, you messed that one up Sarah Jane. I would say oops, we all make mistakes, but you just destroyed my house. #TemptationSJA #SJA

Very cool 'Sontaran Experiment' type location feel to the 'Next Time' Trailer #TemptationSJA #SJA

Part 1 finished! #TemptationSJA #SJA


There you are. Part Two will be appearing on Twitter at some point in the near future.

Rx

The Podcast - Episode 1 News

Some of you may have heard this already, but below is the opening credit sequence to episode 1. Nothing snazzy or clever as I haven't got really clever editing software, but hey. Just a taster!

JOIT Credits EP 1 by Rod Henderson

Turn Left Transcript

What follows is a transcript of all my tweets on the episode 'Turn Left'. This does not include replies to other people, just my literal thoughts as it unfolds:

Since we've had no more votes, Turn Left gets your vote. In 10 mins we'll start (15:10) using hashtag #turnleft unsurprisingly.

#DoctorWho #TurnLeft Press Play now!

Whole planet of Chinatown. Omnomnom #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

No I don't want to buy your tat. I have to go do a reference to Planet of The Spiders #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Chan She looks like Chantho Tho. Odd that. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

You would have thought the Chancellor Flavia music would make Donna shut up #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Epic space opera coupled with a soap. Like Blake's 7 meets Brookside. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

I have a beetle rucksack. What a liberty! #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Longest most unnessasary pre credits sequence. But Billie Piper's name in the credits so, yum. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Donna had been getting good up until this point but so far she's chanelling her sketch show. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Really pleased to see the same events as before from a different perspective. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Yay! Greyhound 15! Pity he has to break the news of The Doctor's death #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Tyler's back! And this time she's not sobbing... Yet. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Does anyone know what Cliff does all day? #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Oliver Morgenstern! He was awesome. The Doctor, Martha, it's turning into the last episode of Blake's 7. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

NO! Not Sarah Jane! Anyone but her. NO! Clyde and Maria die as well? Nooooo! #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Tyler, you are so subtle. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Spose Rose adjusting the timeline won't make too much difference after all the mess so far. Love the refs. to Mr Noble. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Guinevere range of satellites. I love the ref back to The Christmas Invasion and Voyage of the Damned #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

This really should have been a special or a xmas special story. Bit too big a concept for normal series #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Bernard Cribbins is such a legend and a hero. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

RTD carrying on his US are amazingly fat storyline. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Credit to RTD, this is one of his most political stories. Handled so sensitively. And dramatically. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Wilf squaring up to UNIT. Brilliant! Donna accepting Rose will help even though she doesn't know her is great. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Torchwood sting under dialogue. Great stuff. Just Rose left now. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

This was the perfect place to put Rose. Forget her later appearance. This is perfect. Tate finally being believable. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Really nicely handled WWII references. RTDs finest hour. Cribbins at his most beautiful. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Leaving a camera on Sylvia and just letting her act is brilliant. Graeme Harper you genius. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Nice reversal of how Donna first discovered the TARDIS . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

TARDIS set looks so beautiful. I miss it so much. Hurts seeing it so unwell. Seeing it die... #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Finally, Rose Tyler does get character development. And the most difficult news she has to deliver. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

UNIT and Torchwood joining forces to save the universe. Donna Noble, hero. Hero music and my favourite sound effect. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Seeing someone realise that they have to die is so heart breaking. Like Pete Tyler in Father's Day . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Running. Always with the running. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Last Chance Saloon music. Left or Right. Left or Right. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Donna, not one of my favourite companions but it still destroys me seeing her die. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Never have I been so pleased to see The Doctor. The Trickster's Brigade. #SJA reference ftw! #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

The Doctor's setting up the specials series! #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Bad Wolf . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

I love the Cloister Bell. Petrifies me, but I love hearing it. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

It's the end of the Universe and for once, there's no exaggerating. It actually is. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Harriet Jones, UNIT, Torchwood and The Shadow Proclamation all in one story! RTD you did brilliantly. #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Turn Left is such a beautiful story. Tragic, dramatic, terrifying and powerful. How TV should be! #DoctorWho #TurnLeft

Really need to rewatch more NuWho. Had forgotten how brilliant that story is. . #DoctorWho #TurnLeft





That's all for now. Hope you enjoyed it. Look forward to your feedback!

Tweetamentary

There. Finally come up with a word to describe a text commentary on Twitter. Was that so difficult? Apparantly so.

Planning on doing one last Tweetamentary tomorrow (touch wood) before I run headlong into my research for recording the new feature to be added to this blog: The Journal of Improbable Things - The Podcast.

The theme has been recorded. I say recorded. I actually mean I've taken the 2010 series theme and added a voice over to it. Nifty, huh? Doesn't sound too shabby, but I'll wait to hear your feedback once the first episode has gone out. Hoping to ask the opinions of trusted and learned podcast folks. Podshock will probably be hearing from me. DWO Whocast, The Oodcast, The Eleventh Hour, Chip of Two Minute Time Lord, TMDWP will probably be on there too. All sorts! Loads more probably. Just to see whether there is any interest in what I'll be doing.

Plus, if that's not enough, I'm writing a couple of articles to submit to fanzines. Really need to just bloody well finish one of them and then I can worry about content and editing rather than try to do it as I go.

Back to work now!

Rx

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Podcasting

So, from a not knowing my way around Twitter to providing my own commentary track. It's two days later and I'm still having people tweet me, speak to me or mention of Facebook about what I put. I even had someone follow a hashtag, see my tweets and follow along even though they weren't one of my followers. This is awesome. I've spoken to folks internationally who do a similar thing and want to me to join their panel for next time. Thus I am considering a new idea.


What if I were to make a podcast attached to this blog? There's this blog and then The Journal of Improbable Things Podcast.

Wouldn't want it to be a news service, so many other podcasts do such an epic job of that. I'd want it to be commentary tracks or discussions and the like. Even had someone from Australia offer to join in and Skype their part of it in, so keen on the idea they were.

It seems I've really taken a shine to this being a fanboy thing!

Rx

The Sea Devils

Wow. Finished watching and tweeting over the story. I suspect I've used up my tweet limit for this hour with how much I said. I think it was to a degree successful. If I had planned it much earlier in advance and decided what and how I wanted to do things more than just a night ago it might have run smoother.

Some discussion was prompted though. Had a few people from around the world chipping in and I'm so greatful to them. Made it feel like I was doing it for/with someone, not just me boring people. Even though they weren't watching along, most were doing it from memory, using me to remind them of images and freshen the story in their heads. Was very exciting.

Looking forward to the next time! At some point hoping to transcribe my tweets so they're all in one place cos I don't know how long Twitter holds onto them for.

Excellent story. Highly recommended.

The Votes Have Been Counted And Verified...

... And I can now reveal that Davina McCall has bugger all to do with this.

The Twitter/Facebook voting has now closed and it was decided that with an extra vote for it after time was called that The Sea Devils won the vote with 5 votes to Resurrection's 3. Was a fairly close call. No idea what would have happened if there was a tie.

Commentary thing will start at 2pm (UK time) and we'll plow on and see how far we get. Hopefully something interesting should crop up. At worst it won't work and I won't do it again!

So, join me at 2pm for Doctor Who and The Pertwee at Sea.

Been A While

As the title suggests, I've not been on here in what I think quantifies as an age. I have however not entirely abandoned the world of blogging. I have just moved, against my better judgement, into the world of micro-blogging. Yes, despite all my protestations, I signed up to Twitter.

You know what's worse?

I'm still on it, and what's more actually like it!

Find me if you like @ www.twitter.com/rod_henderson.

If you like having your time wasted.

I have found however that I get lots of news from it and I'm meeting loads of great new theatre and Doctor Who type folks. In fact, I'm trying something new this afternoon.

Following on from last week, where SFX Magazine (www.twitter.com/sfxmagazine) did a live tweet commentary on the Channel 5 screening of Spiderman 2, I'll be doing one for a Doctor Who story. A live tweet text commentary on one of the following stories:

2nd Doctor - The Mind Robber
3rd Doctor - The Sea Devils
5th Doctor - Resurrection of The Daleks
10th Doctor - The End of Time

So far the votes are fairly suggestive, but it could go either way.

Should possibly think of some things to say so I don't just end up waffling about it...

See you this afternoon!