Well, on the Evangelion Soundtrack CD "Addition" there is a track called After the End which is an audio drama recorded by the original cast members.
The script is a comedy fiction based around the idea that King Records want another series of Eva and have forced the cast to regroup and come up with new ideas for the show. It's very funny.
The script has been around for a while and I'm sure that some of you will have even gotten hold of a fansub of sorts using the original script.
I decided to do something a little different with it.
It's a word I made up to describe what I've made - I think it needed it's own word as I intend to do many more of these in the future. A Picsub a method of subtitling something that doesnt have any video, such as audio dramas. What I have done is I've represented each character talking with a small picture of them taken from the series. The translated speech is then put in a bubble underneath them, much like a computer game - example
The backgrounds, titles and various other things are taken form the series and so on in order to create a visual to go with the audio. The video is made up of individual stills created in Adobe Photoshop which are then imported into Adobe Premier to make them into a video. A small amount of video editing and technical trickery and you have the finished product. Easy but time consuming.
HERE!!!. The file is only a little over 41mb for the full 22 minute video. Hopefully, by the time you read this, there will also be copies of this file being distributed on mIRC fserves and on morpheus. With any luck ^^;;
Higher quality/resolution versions are available on request. I can supply mpeg-1, mpeg-2 and divx copies of the picsub on cd-r by SASE.
PAL VHS copies are also available on request.
I hope so. I am currently acquiring translations of the FLCL audio dramas from the FLCL OST 2. I have also obtained a nice Kare Kano drama with script so will more than likely be working on that next. I would also like to do a project which would combine the Angel Sanctuary manga with the audio dramas as they are very very similar but this would be a much larger project that can only happen if the manga rights arent acquired in the west.
Anyway, watch this space.