| David Ault sits down and chats with the David Cummings from the grand and wildly popular horror, No Sleep Podcast. |
Author: Jack (Page 127 of 175)
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!
Famed mystery writer Jeffrey Deaver, author of such blockbusters as The Skin Collector, The October List, and The Kill Room, among others has decided that his latest story won’t be released as a novel ever. That’s right, you can only get The Starling Project as… you guessed it… an audio drama!
According to the New York Times article, Audible and others are betting on the power of the audio story, and what was once just good enough for simple narration is becoming more and more “enhanced”. In other words, radio drama lives again. What a lovely release!
| On the big old time radio show tonight the showcase inspiring Screen Directors’ Playhouse with “Shadow of a Doubt” starring Cary Grant and featuring our screen director des jours, Sir Alfred Hitchcock! |
We’ve been talking for years about the portability of audio stories, and it looks like we’re at the beginning of the trend. We talked yesterday about whether or not we were climbing up one side of the hill or going down another.
According to The Digital Reader, we are approaching a golden age of audio stories. Downloadable audiobooks are the fastest growing format with a +26.2% growth in 2013 and up 28% in 2014 surpassing e-books.
All of this and more can be found in the Publishing Trends article “Listen Up”!
Give yourself a high-five! You listeners are at the forefront of our long-awaited revolution!
In an interesting article in Midroll, Paul Riismandel argues that a recent critical article from Variety entitled “Why Serial Won’t Do Much for Podcasting or Hollywood” just doesn’t get it. The Variety article suggests exactly what it promises in the title- in that the explosively popular Serial from NPR won’t make any inroads into adapting its radio series into movies or even make a breakthrough for the relatively small listening audience of the podcast.
Riismandel, however provides a couple of examples as to how that’s already happened, and podcasts are ready for the big show. What do you think?
| Jack and David travel to the fresh beginnings in the Audiospace with Alba Salix, Royal Physician from writer/director/producer, Eli McIlveen! |
| This evening Jack has a chat with producer, actor and Reaper Raconteur Michael L. Stokes! |
| Starting Showcase Months for March and April we present for Sonic Echo, Studio One’s “Ah, Wilderness”. Be sure to go to archive.org and grab all the great episodes available in Studio One to get you through the weekend! |
| Jack and David try to rejump the TORTIS after its latest power drain crossing the unwinding Audioverse and park towardsFinalrune’s The Cleansed- Episode 3 of Season 2 and finishing up with one of Misfit Audio’s grand 5 Minute shows “Alice in Wonderland” |
| Bryan Lincoln from Lincoln Audio Productions sits down to talk with Jack about the differences of audio drama, podnovels, podcasting, and the possibilities of productions for profit. |