The Message

How Not To Commentate On 'The Message'

This commentary comes from Stuart and Tom, "brothers and (obviously) fans of Firefly." They say they recorded this "partly because it seemed like a good idea, partly because no one else has submitted anything yet and we wanted to help get the ball rolling."

Description:

We parked two chairs in front of our computer desk and watched the episode on Windows Media Player. We used a cheapo microphone from GAME and a freeware Sound Recorder by Magicsofts. Since we had no headphones splitter we set up some small speakers under the desk and turned the volume down low so we could hear the episode but it would be really quiet on the microphone. As it turned out, this wasn't such a great idea as you can hear the muffled audio in the background. Hopefully it's still listenable, and we'll try to do better next time!

Totally unrehearsed, completely unprofessional and utterly uninformative. In other words it's just two random guys speaking (sporadically) about cow fetuses and guys in boxes for 43 minutes.

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Posted on November 14, 2005 07:05 PM |

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And, just to be clear, the title of this entry is the title of the commentary, as provided by the commentators, and is not meant to be me making an editorial remark on their commentary. Heh.

Posted by: The One True b!X [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 14, 2005 07:19 PM

Just wanted to say congratulations the bros on their commentary. Kudos on the balls to be the first, I thoroughly enjoyed it and loved hearing what popped up into the minds of other fans as they were watching it. Its a unique twist and they managed to point out some things I had never caught/had never thought of. It was good, great job and thanks for stepping up. I just might have to get on a commentary myself.

Posted by: Haven [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 20, 2005 03:59 PM

Glad you enjoyed it :) To be honest, I wanted to listen to some other commentaries before I had a go, but since there were none we thought we'd just have a stab at it.

Good luck putting one together yourself :)

Posted by: Grounded [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 23, 2005 03:42 PM

Quite good! Please keep the muffled soundtrack in the background. It's the only we NTSC-types can stay in synch with you PAL-types.

Posted by: Tysto [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 8, 2006 05:42 PM

I'm fairly sure I used my R1 copy of the dvds for this one, and indeed all the others I've posted, so it should sync reasonably well even without the background noise. If it doesn't, I have no idea why!

Posted by: Grounded [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 9, 2006 02:53 AM

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