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[phoenix-the-editor]

I'll be honest. Production has really slowed down for Chapter 13 because the anxiety of it all causing me to put things off and I haven't even touched that particular scene yet. I fear how people will react to it given the nature of its contents. Anyone have any advice on how to approach this?

[ondarianmaximus]

The "lost" character of Shay, a belly dancer, whom I'm looking to recast. Open to Amateurs. Belly Dance experience is not required, nor is a costume. Though both are entirely optional. I'm happy to adapt and welcome anyone who would be interested in taking over the character. I can adapt to voice acting even. Drop me a message here or an email at [email protected] and we can talk more about the character. I am also open to someone from the #LGBTQAI+ community taking her over, though I am very comfortable with Shay becoming They/Them if preferred. It's all a matter of perspective.

Also, for the record, this is a video of myself as Vespasian. I never ask people to try anything that I would not try myself. That's why I created and performed as him on video. This is actually his second appearance. I honestly enjoy portraying him.

[crazyfanofmasskpopculture]

This handsome man.... Broke ELF'S hearts every time...

[phoenix-the-editor]

Chapter 10-11 Release Notes

"Let's make him one of us!"

And here it is: the most anticipated Paco fight and the first that we see THE Hustle face off Bigmouth Strikes Again. This was also the moment where we get a deeper look into this "Lava Rock Owner" and Pettrull himself makes an actual debut as Charming Man.

Another combination chapter means a lot more new challenges, especially when the double chapters often entail a lot of fighting. For Chapter 10 - 11, the challenge came from something that was not only unexpected but revealed a rather fatal flaw with how we create our chapters: music curation.

While we do choose music in advance, even conducting meetings to determine the best songs, what we did not really consider is the possibly of the music not becoming a good fit in the end. For me, having the right music allows me to plan the scenes accordingly and get the audio done first, as well as collaborate on sound design, before handing it off to the rest of the team for visuals. It's a big part of why we are able to stick with our 2 month schedule. With Chapter 10-11, a lot of the scenes where the right music choice is crucial (i.e. dramatic reveals, fight scenes, etc.) ended up not sounding as great as envisioned so we ended up with basically no music and therefore no plan for how the chapters would go. Some of the song choices are hard to cut, extend, or loop to fit the scene, some transition into a completely different vibe that goes against the scene, and some simply did not work out in the end. We usually choose songs from all over the place or see if we can reuse songs we had before, but nothing really clicked. So, I ended up taking on a lot more of the visuals because I needed to see what was going on with the lack of music to guide me. I think Koby and Mike really helped me out the most with ultimately finding the right songs and me realizing I have to mashup and cut songs a certain way to get the right vibe.

One example of this is the end of chapter 10 when Charming is revealed to be hiding through the birds and slices Dragona’s throat soon after. It took three different songs from the Dune soundtrack to combine to fit the flow from Dragona noticing the birds supposedly carrying the watch to the throat slice to Smooth Operators scrambling to save their Stand User. Like Chapter 6 - 7 when the music for the trap setup by Wild Cat Size, the music had to be poignant but not compromise the voices of the characters as they react to the scene. Mike is an avid fan of music soundtracks from movies and shows, so he brought up the idea of using songs from movies like The Invisible Man and TV shows like The White Lotus. What did help with finding the right music was remembering we can revisit old songs, especially those we have already used frequently (such as ShioOST and Gwinn’s work), or music from Yugo Kanno’s work on the anime adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. One of the inside jokes I have with Koby is to use music from “Spongebob Squarepants” for certain scenes; in verbatim “when in doubt, use Spongebob” is what we sometimes tell ourselves. Even though many of the songs are rather lighthearted and comical, there are some good songs that fit whenever it is needed, and it makes a great contrast between when a scene seems like things are going well to things going downhill quickly. Although the fight scene is serious and dramatic, we were able to put in a couple of jokes from the show through our adlib like Paco and Jodio going “my leg” and “my eyes” respectively. Also yes: the "harder daddy" was put in there after much consideration because Riverdude is that funny.

Another inside joke we have is how we say we are unable to take in more actors but one way to become an actor is to join the production crew first and then become an actor. The people in Skibidi Productions never planned on being an actor but end up taking on some roles when needed. Robo is an example of this where he came in as an editor and became the voice actor for Leo. We had a sketch planned where he played around with the voice that may one day be uploaded but it led us to asking him to be Leo officially for the project. You may hear a few of our crew members show up eventually as other roles in future chapters, but this is probably the first instance of our crew members becoming actors with spoken roles and a name to the character rather than be an unnamed character, someone in the background, or exclusively on the crew. Also, shout out to Bunnfyre, who will be a familiar lawyer in the series very soon.

I think Chapter 10 – 11 by far has the best sound design despite the trouble with music. We build more on Bigmouth Strikes Again’s design, which I talked about already in Chapter 9’s notes. Initially, I only reverb the voice once in Chapter 9 for the reveal at the end but played with it more by having it heard while Charming speaks and is still in that transition between his transformation and his reveal; Pettrull mentioned he really liked this take once he noticed it and now it will be a mainstay. It is rather difficult to keep track of the voices but adding that layer of reverb gives him that “fractured” sound that hints at how the Stand can change his voice to create his disguises; it is like how the Stand can manipulate your vision by using light and fracturing it to warp perception. Plus, there is that element of the supernatural that the reverb provides as well as how it almost resembles the wind blowing through your ear and affecting how things can sound because of it.  Another cool thing we incorporated and designed was the scenes underwater. Koby did an amazing job with figuring out how things would sound when November Rain activates from under the surface and it was a fun challenge to figure out how to transition the sound from under water to above water.

We are almost done with Volume 3, and I am excited for Chapter 12 since Pettrull can finally shine and we can play around with couple of interesting scenes. Also, we will be holding our first ever official auditions! If you want to be a part of the project, here's a link to the casting call club page or email us at [email protected]!

-Phoenix

[phoenix-the-editor]

Introduction Post

Aloha! This is @incorrect-jojolands-quotes. Many of you probably know that I am the editor, writer, and voice actor of Dragona Joestar for TJJL Fandub Project.

I will be using this blog specifically to post updates regarding the project as well as release some notes for each chapter produced. I'll try my best to be consistent but I wanted to make this so I can stop cluttering my incorrect JOJOLands quotes blog (focus more on actually posting quotes on there hehe) and dedicate a blog just for this project.

It would be nice if you give a follow, as I will be using this as my main form of interactions in addition to Twitter for things related to the fandub. In the meantime, let me know what sort of content you might want to see me post on here in addition to general commentary on how production went.

[imsmallfry]

I've created a Choose Your Own Adventure game!! I've been wanting to try this project for a long time, after growing up with these types of books and seeing how cool Bandersnatch was I thought it would be a fun project to try and make it work on YouTube. It was a lot of plotting, drawing, editing, and re-editing XD and I'm so happy I can finally share it with everyone! If you like creepy stories, ominous environments, cute art, and a mystery please give it a play!

and let me know if you survived on your first try :)

[iminaworldofpureimagination]