Jack | August 31, 2018
Recently, this question came up in Quora. And since no one provided an answer for a year, we took a crack at it. How’d we do? Audio Drama (Radio Drama to some) has become a kind of hot topic for those in the know more recently. My weekly podcast/radio show “The Sonic Society” features new […]
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Tags: Audio Drama Links, Celtx, Fade In, Final Draft, Quora, The Sonic Society
Jack | August 28, 2018
Tonight we conclude Sonic Summerstock Playhouse with a double feature from Narada Radio Company and “Rocket from Manhattan”, Pete Lutz producing a classic Arch Oboler play, and The Amigo Audio Collective with “The Stars are Styx” an X-Minus One presentation produced by Jeffrey Billard. Thank-you EVERYONE who made this summer season such a success!
Category: Show Notes, Sonic Summer |
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Tags: Arch Oboler, Jeffrey Billard, Narada Radio Company, OTR, Pete Lutz, Rocket from Manhattan, The Amigo Audio Collective, The Stars are Styx, X Minus One
Jack | August 26, 2018
Recently, I was catching up on the Audio Drama Production Podcast and I listened to Steve Schneider’s excellent discussion with Sarah Golding about the importance of having a powerful beginning. Steve is a deft writer/producer, and always has some key insights in what makes excellent audio drama. And this made me consider what struck me most […]
Category: Script Writing |
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Tags: Agnes Moorehead, Audio Drama Production Podcast, Barrymore, Best Plays, Billy Senese, Casper Kelly, Christmas Special, Colonial Radio Theatre, Crazy Dog Audio, Gerry in the Dark Passage, Gregg Taylor, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, In Defence of Poesy, Jerry Robbins, Lucille Fletcher, Messages, Midnight Radio Theatre, On Borrowed Time, Openings, Red Panda, Right Number Wrong Party, Roger Gregg, Sarah Golding, Sir Philip Sidney, Sonic Society, Sorry Wrong Number, Star Wars, Steve Schneider, Suspense, The Dark End of the Mall, The Truth, The Woman in the Basement, Tis the Season, War of the Worlds, Will Eisner, William Luce
Jack | August 24, 2018
Recently, our Sonic Echo team have been talking about the classic Nightfall horror suspense series from CBC Radio in the eighties. Bill Howell, the senior producer had a fascinating take on the challenge of getting an audience in Radio Drama. From the Theatre Research in Canada Journal. 1990’s article Bill Howell from Canadian Radio Drama in […]
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Tags: Bill Howell, CBC, Horror, Nightfall, Prick Up Your Ears, Suspense, Theatre Research in Canada
Jack | August 23, 2018
Jeffrey Billard, Lothar Tuppan, and Jack Ward greet our final guest in the parlour this summer. Craig Robotham joins us from Weird World Studios to talk about one of his favourite Arch Oboler plays from the Dalton Trumbo novel Johnny Got His Gun starring Jimmy Cagney. Apologies for the poor sound quality…
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Tags: Arch Oboler, Craig Robotham, Dalton Trumbo, Jack Ward, Jeffrey Billard, Jimmy Cagney, Johnny Got His Gun, Lothar Tuppan, OTR, Weird World Studios
Jack | August 21, 2018
SyFy is getting into the Audio Drama game with Uncharted Regions and bringing in some familiar faces- John Billingsley from Star Trek- Enterprise joins the cast for an upcoming episode. Billingsley speaks with great reverence in this article from SyFi about his love of listening to audio drama growing up. His favourite was Bradbury-13 and […]
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Tags: Bradbury-13, John Billingsley, Star Trek, Star Trek- Enterprise, SyFy, Uncharted Regions
Jack | August 21, 2018
Tonight CNY Table Reads return with their take on the classic H.G. Wells Time Machine and the iconic Flash Gordon!
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Tags: CNY Table Reads, Flash Gordon, H.G. Wells, Scott Mosher, The Time Machine
Jack | August 19, 2018
A new Facebook group appreciating classic old-time radio from the north : Canadian Old Time Radio. One of the shows was a five-episode series called Nazi Eyes on Canada. Rumour in the group is that there are six episodes but one was lost. Have a listen back to 1942… in simpler, yet dangerous times.
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Tags: Canadian Old Time Radio, CBC, Facebook, Nazi Eyes on Canada, OTR, World War II
Jack | August 16, 2018
Every once in a while we find an awesome article on the benefits between real sounds and Foley creation. Trento Stefano gives a clear analysis between the real and the simulated in this pdf article Foley Sounds Vs. Real Sounds. Considering how Foley is used to describe motion pictures, maybe we need a term to represent […]
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Tags: Broken Sea Audio, Farby, Foley, SFX, Sound Effects, Stevie K. Farnaby, Trento Stefano
Jack | August 14, 2018
Tonight Narada Radio Company enlists the performances of the Empire Audio Network to fill out the Company to present from the classic adventure series- Escape “The Adaptive Ultimate”!
Category: Podcast, Show Notes, Sonic Summer |
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Tags: Adaptive Ultimate, Empire Audio Network, Escape, Narada Radio Company, Pete Lutz