Operation Ichabod!

Here's a fun Halloween project that made my day :).

About ten days back mollyringle launched the idea of preparing a LJ group reading of a scene from "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" to be posted on Halloween. She invited everyone reading her journal to volunteer to be involved and when we did she sent us each two or three lines of the story to record onto an MP3 and mail to her so she could edit them together into a single file to be posted today. I just finished listening to the end result :).

Naturally the sound engineering is wildly varied- for my part I just used my small Sony IC recorder- but the end result is utterly charming, with both children and adults, women and men participating. You can hear babies burbling as mothers read their lines, people giggling as narrators make dramatic pauses, you can tell everyone involved had a lot of fun doing it. mollyringle did an admirable job of editing the whole piece into one three minute narrative with appropriately spooky music to set off the voices.

A transcript of the story, plus who is reading each part, can be found on mollyringle's journal here.

The MP3 of the finished story is here: Operation Ichabod (be patient- it does take the MP3 about a minute to load)

Thanks to mollyringle for allowing me to participate! My narration is the second last person from the end of the MP3.

Whooo and Happy Halloween!