Category: Administration (Page 4 of 7)
After a good sixteen month hiatus, Jack sat down with Robyn Paterson from Kung Fu Action Theatre and talked Starports with him recently over coffee.
This science fiction anthology series asks the question, “What if a university student discovered a cheap and easy way to teleport anywhere in the universe and published his findings on the Internet for all of humanity?”
The scope of possibilities for Starports is beyond imagining. After re-editing the bible for the series it’s now time to ask for submissions. All accepted submissions will be on the refurbished “The Library” podcast and fan favourites will be included in an e-book “Starports- The First Year of the New Age”.
If you’re a writer, go look at the Starport Bible and send all submission inquiries to Jack J. Ward at jackjamieward AT gmail DOT com!
Season Seven is nearly upon us!
Just a few weeks before Sonic Society begins its exciting run of brand new shows and companies producing Audio Drama for the 2011-2012 season!
So, after seven seasons we’re hoping YOU can help celebrate the oldest showcase of modern audio drama on the Net!
Please help us out by doing one or two of the following:
1. Bumpers.
If you’re an actor, producer, director, or writer or just an awesome fan of the show we’d love to have you record something like “I’m ______ from _________ and you’re listening to the Sonic Society!” or something of that ilk so that we can put you up at the beginning of the show! Keep it enthusiastic and fun!
2. Promos
If you’re connected to, or a fan of a particular show, podcast, or wicked website. Send us an audio promo! Our goal this season is a different promo every show!
Help us provide for you a revitalized and phenomenal season of the Sonic Society!
and THANKS for listening!
Jack
Just released from Great Northern’s Jerry Stearns are the 2010 Mark Time/Ogle Awards and Electric Vicuña Production’s Darker Musings Anthology episode “Soul Survivor” won honorable mention.
Congratulations to ALL WINNERS!
Mark Time Awards / Ogle Awards
Winners – 2010 Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Audio Production
Mark Time Award
GOLD
The Truth: Moon Graffiti
Written & Produced by Jonathan Mitchell
New York, NY
SILVER
The Cleansed, Pilot Episode
FinalRune Productions
Written & Produced by Fred Greenhalgh
Alfred ME
www.finalrune.com
HONORABLE MENTIONS
1918
Aural Stage
Written by Richard Lovejoy
Producers, Matthew Boudreau, Samantha Mason
Buffalo, NY
www.1918show.com
Brad Lansky and the Anti-Starc
Protophonic
Written by J.D. Venne
Producer, Dieter Zimmermann
Cape Town, South Africa
www.protophonic.net
Ogle Award
GOLD
Whoever Wishes
Tekdiff
Written & Produced by Cayenne Chris Conroy
Minneapolis, MN
www.tekdiff.com
SILVER
We’re Alive, Chapter 17,
“There Might Be Others”
Zombiepodcast.
Written by Kc Wayland
Producers, Kc Wayland, Shane Salk
Orange, CA
www.zombiepodcast.com
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Soul Survivor
Sonic Society
Written & Produced by Jack. J. Ward
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada
www.evicuna.com
The Witch Hunter Chronicles
Audio-epics
Written and Produced by Domien de Groot
Deurne, Belgium
whchronicles.wordpress.com
Presented by
The American Society For Science Fiction Audio
(ASFSFA)
The Mark Time Award is given each year to honor the Best Science Fiction Audio Production on the Planet. And the Ogle Award for Best Fantasy Audio Production of the Year.
Charles Ogle played the first Frankenstein’s creation in Edison’s silent 1910 film of the famous science fiction horror novel. Fantasy includes magical “high” fantasy, sword and sorcery, horror, modern urban fantasy, and other things that don’t fall under the criteria of Science Fiction. But, we’ll be the judges of that.
A Gold and a Silver Mark Time Award, and a Gold and a Silver Ogle Award, will be awarded at CONvergence,, June 30-July 3 of 2011.
A listener wrote in to the Huey mailbag this week asking for some tips on writing audio drama scripts and so I dug this article out that I originally wrote for the Sonic Society season 1 and reposted on my writing blog. So good luck to everyone involved in Script Frenzy this month and if you need a couple of tips, here’s something on writing Audio Cinema.
As mentioned on last week’s Sonic Society, we’re hard at work putting together a structure that I’m calling “The IMDB of Audio Drama”.
There’s a co uple of phases of completion needed:
Phase 1: Design– Progress 35%
Phase 2: Testing
Phase 3: Importing Documents– I’ll be putting up for folks an Excel Spreadsheet with instructions to allow various Audio Drama companies and individuals to complete their files and mass importing and correcting any mistakes.
Phase 4: Usernames and Passwords- I’ll be opening the floor to people who want a username and password to begin the process of maintaining and entering new content as it comes. This new phase will allow for an “Editors” window in which anyone with Editing ability will see all documents that have been Entered and be able to edit, delete, or approve into the wider database.
The platform is built solidly on the Lotus Notes database structure which is amazing for unstructured text, and robust enough to hold up to 64 gigs of data.
Here’s my pass at the front end. Notice this screen shot was cropped before it says: “© COPYRIGHT 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FOR THE INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED”
So why this? Why not?
Loads of people have been making some awesome tools, but this kind of spot has always been one of my dreams. A one-stop shopping place for people to look up Actors, Musicians, Producers, Audio Drama plays and Audio Drama Organizations. Want to see all the plays with Mark Kalita? Or scripts written by B.K. Turning? Or available episode of the OTR classic Gunsmoke? Here’s where you will get it all!
Cheers!
Jack
If you’ve been like us and sitting at the edge of our ipods the last eight days, you realize that the Sonic Society feed was just not getting through into itunes!
With a lot of help from the good folks at I-tunes at the customer service desk as to what happened, I can say now that I see the last two episodes are finally hitting my itunes player and we’re back to normal (fingers crossed!)
Thanks so much for your patience in this harrowing week and a bit (And people wonder why I’m getting a little light on the top!).
Thanks especially to Michael Hudson and everyone who sent us messages (sometimes as frantic as us!) wondering what happened to the feed. But we’re back, and with any good fortune we’ll be staying that way.
Excelsior!
Jack