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Born to Teachers and Amateur Audio Enthusiasts in the small rural community of Belwood, Jack's first love was stories- writing, reading, telling, and singing. He developed his acting skills through High School, University, and through film and community theatre.
Jack writes the lion's share of Sonic Cinema Production's (previously Electric Vicuna) Audio Drama scripts and has his own writing site at www.jackjward.com. Jack also is the middle of book writing, screenplay production, and is the CEO of the Mutual Audio Network- where he and the best people in the world Listen & Imagine, Together!.
He's thrilled to co-host the Sonic Society with his wonderful, talented, friend David Ault as they enter their second decade in the medium!

Casting Call!

April 11, 2016 / / 0 Comments

castingcallclub-logo-706017caacc9f429e2b016d9437cc193It’s that time of year for us at EVP where we start looking to the universities and local theatre guilds to get a solid group of actors for our audio dramas. We have fantastic performers, but sometimes they go inactive, get overused, don’t have time, or move away, and it’s always good to have a fresh supply.

If local acting isn’t in your wheelhouse for the time being, or if you want to try to go the route of fresh new faces (voices), maybe you might want to give Casting Call Club. Membership is free (although they do have enhanced premiums for those who pay) and there’s all kinds of opportunities. Check it out!

 

Vintage Hitchcock Radio

April 11, 2016 / / 0 Comments

2-s47dtu_preview_featuredThe Oskaloosa Herald shares an exciting live radio theatre performance:

With “Vintage Hitchcock,” performed by William Penn University’s theatre department, you will visit neither London nor the 1920s, but you will become the audience of a radio show from several eras. “I really would like the audience to come in and take time to close [their] eyes and just listen to what it sounds like. This is designed to be a radio play, and we really tried to tackle it from that point of view,” said director Andy McGuire.

Three of Alfred Hitchcock’s early films have been adapted into radio plays by playwright Joe Landry. “The Lodger” will be first, followed by “Sabotage.” After a brief intermission, “The 39 Steps” will finish out the evening. “They’re all made with great reverence and love for Hitchcock,” said McGuire. The filmmaker is known for being a master of nail-biting suspense and the thriller genre. “A lot of times people think of theatre as this farce and this comedy. These plays are fun, they have their fun moments, but they’re not really comedies.”

Find out everything about Friday and Saturday’s performances that are offered free from this article College Students to Perform Vintage Hitchcock.

 

Tigers and Bunnies and Audio Drama, Oh My!

April 10, 2016 / / 0 Comments

tigerbunnyA growing popular add to a BluRay collection seems to be additional audio drama programmes. With the popular Japanese animation Tiger & Bunny there’s a brand new radio drama with the whole cast.

Crunchy roll has all the details:

The Japanese Tiger & Bunny Bluray Box will include all 25 episodes of the original TV series on 12 Bluray discs. In addition to the bonus materials included in the 9 individual Tiger & Bunny Bluray releases, the new box set will also include an original audio drama CD and new interviews with the voice cast.

Divergent’s Last Flop is Good News For Audio Drama Fans

April 9, 2016 / / 0 Comments

divergent-ascendant-radio-dramaIf you’ve been following the Box Office, Divergent‘s latest chapter, Insurgent, has been disappointing.

So disappointing in fact, that “they who hold the purse strings” have cut the final movie from the trilogy. But, unlike what normally would occur without any followup, the final book- Ascendant will be made into an audio drama.

The article in hypable by Katie Awad entitled crisply as Final Divergent Film to be Released as Radio Drama  everyone involved seems genuinely dismayed at the thought.

But, we at the Sonic Society, see it differently.

How fantastic is audio drama’s rise that the Hollywood Film houses see even a marketable radio drama product can be made from lackluster movie sails. This can only bode well for our favourite medium!

Iowa Weekend!

April 8, 2016 / / 0 Comments

5Are you in southeast Iowa for the weekend? Check out The Ottumwa Courier‘s suggestions for 5 Things to Do This Weekend.

I’m assuming its in reverse order of importance because their #5 is Live Radio Drama!

From the article:

5. Laugh the night away with the Davis County Players this Friday and Saturday evening as they present a night of old-time radio with a Bloomfield twist in the tradition of “A Prairie Home Companion.” The audience gets to watch a radio show unfold right before its very eyes, complete with plays, sketches, ad parodies and fantastic music. It’s two evenings of live radio at the Iowa Theatre in Bloomfield, with the “State Line Old Time Radio Revue,” featuring five short radio plays by Broadway playwright Eric Coble as well as several additional comedy sketches, live music and much more — all under the guise of a fictional live radio broadcast on the fictional radio station, JMMG, 92.4. Showtime is 7 p.m. April 1-2. Tickets are available at Perfect Touch Wellness Center in Bloomfield or at the door before showtime.

The Art of Visuals Through Sound

April 8, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Malaka-Dewapriya-209x300From The Sunday Times, filmmaker Malaka Dewapriya talks about his long time love of radio drama and two of his new releases:

will launch his two audio CDs tilted “Kanata Parak” (Earful of Visuals) containing  14  Radio Plays at 3. 00 p.m. onwards on April 7 at the Auditorium of the Mahaweli Centre, Colombo.

The main speakers at the event will be Dr. Dharmasena Pathiraja, Lucian Bulathsinhala, and Dr. Sunil Wijesiriwardana and they will speak on the subject of contemporary radio art. The anchor will be eminent playwright, E.M.D Upali.

The collection in ‘Kanata Parak’ includes twelve Sinhala medium and two Tamil medium plays. The titles of these plays are “Tharuwan Saranai(Blessed by Star)”, ‘Nihon Sepalebewa’ (May you attend comfort worldly life in Nihon)”, “Alayaka Damanaya (Love Tamed)”, Nirabhishekana (Felicitation)”, “Nirwasthran ParamanSukhan(Naked is the best policy )”, “Funsalak”, Roma Ruupana (Perform in Rome )”, “Suwadena Agni (Soothing Fire)”, “RangadenaKapuwo(Trickster Matchmakers)”, EkathanaKerakuma(Stagnation)”, “Nawanalu Dahama (Tele Actor)”, and “Bashmaanthara( inter action )”.

 

Gainsaying

April 7, 2016 / / 0 Comments

cp_768_1_Gain-Staging_Mistakes_Fig_1This fantastic help document on Gain Staging- 5 Mistakes to Avoid by Joe Albano, does an incredible job of going through some of the most parts of recording. What is gain staging you ask?  According to the article, “gain-staging is, in practice—optimizing the level at the input and output of each step in the processing chain (real or virtual)”. So now that you know, make sure get an opportunity to erase mistakes for your next productions!

 

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