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First Video--Before/After/Passability--I Want Your Thoughts

Started by blue.ocean.girl, December 21, 2012, 10:14:33 AM

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Elsa

Sometimes when life is a fight - we just have to fight back and say screw you - I want to live.

Sometimes we just need to believe.
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Carlita

Looks-wise, as everyone says, you're a total, 100%, super-pretty pass - you're MUCH better looking as a girl than a guy and you've got a very sweet, feminine smile, too.

The only remark I have, and it's intended as totally constructive advice, is that you should try to put a bit more intonation and variation of pitch into your voice. One of the main differences in male and female speech patterns is that guys tend to speak in a monotone, and emphasise a point using volume, whereas women speak in a much more up-and-down style and emphasise with pitch: going higher to express intensity, rather than just louder.

Since you're a musician, heres's a simple, if old-fashioned comparison. Think of the Beatles: specifically, the double A-side single Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane. Strawberry Fields is a Lennon song and, like most of his mid/late Beatles stuff, the melody line is pretty much contained within a very narrow range: that's like a guy talking. Now think of Penny Lane, which is a McCartney song, and, like most of HIS stuff is much brighter and bounces up and down the scale: that's like a girl.

Right now you sound Lennon. The moment you sound McCartney, you'll be as passable with your voice as you already are with your looks!
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blue.ocean.girl

Thank you everyone! Wow such a unanimous response too! I feel so much more confident now, seriously.
I'm going to remove the video now. Thank you all for taking a look at it and reponding to it!  :)

Quote from: innainka on December 23, 2012, 11:30:24 PM
beautiful, cute, real, and yes, do sound like a woman you are. As others have mentioned, luuuuucccckkkyyyyyy with hyper feminine genetics. If you have a chance do have chromosomal testing, do it, I would bet that it will come back triple digit, however unimportant in who you are.

Congrats in doing 2 years in 4 months

??? Triple digit? I'm lost. But thank you.  :)


Quote from: Carlita on December 24, 2012, 07:35:02 AM
Looks-wise, as everyone says, you're a total, 100%, super-pretty pass - you're MUCH better looking as a girl than a guy and you've got a very sweet, feminine smile, too.

The only remark I have, and it's intended as totally constructive advice, is that you should try to put a bit more intonation and variation of pitch into your voice. One of the main differences in male and female speech patterns is that guys tend to speak in a monotone, and emphasise a point using volume, whereas women speak in a much more up-and-down style and emphasise with pitch: going higher to express intensity, rather than just louder.

Since you're a musician, heres's a simple, if old-fashioned comparison. Think of the Beatles: specifically, the double A-side single Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane. Strawberry Fields is a Lennon song and, like most of his mid/late Beatles stuff, the melody line is pretty much contained within a very narrow range: that's like a guy talking. Now think of Penny Lane, which is a McCartney song, and, like most of HIS stuff is much brighter and bounces up and down the scale: that's like a girl.

Right now you sound Lennon. The moment you sound McCartney, you'll be as passable with your voice as you already are with your looks!

My voice really bothers me. A lot of people tell me I sound fine, but to me I think in my head that there is something wrong with it. I just can't figure it out. So I am very happy to have gotten this from you. Thanks. I'm going to work on that. I guess I'm hitting a good pitch? Just not varied enough.
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Carlita

Quote from: blue.ocean.girl on December 25, 2012, 06:19:24 AM
My voice really bothers me. A lot of people tell me I sound fine, but to me I think in my head that there is something wrong with it. I just can't figure it out. So I am very happy to have gotten this from you. Thanks. I'm going to work on that. I guess I'm hitting a good pitch? Just not varied enough.

The pitch is fine ... the rest is just practice. Good luck! And rest assured, you're already 95% of the way to being a gorgeous young woman.
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soulfairer

Couldn't see the video (marked as private). But just judging by the picture... Congrats!
:)
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Nero

Quote from: soulfairer on December 28, 2012, 12:47:52 PM
Couldn't see the video (marked as private).

Me neither. Wanted to see this amazing transformation everyone's talking about.  :(
Nero was the Forum Admin here at Susan's Place for several years up to the time of his death.
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BlonT

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Elspeth

Quote from: mumbaigirl on January 08, 2013, 09:34:07 AM
Why can't I see the video?

It's now marked private. Given the sort of jerks who comment sometimes on YouTube videos I have to wonder whether she didn't decide to change its status after getting the positive feedback it had here? Would like to have seen it too.

There is an option on YouTube to make your videos unlisted.  There are much better privacy options on Vimeo, but it's harder to open a totally anonymous account there.

One of these days, when I'm less self conscious, I hope to put up a video or two myself, one about my trans issues, as opposed to the kind of things I've put on YouTube that are less directly personal.
"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future."
- Sonmi-451 in Cloud Atlas
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