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To Free or not to Free?

August 1, 2015 / / 0 Comments

forfreeThere are people in the Audio Drama community right miffed at others.

No seriously. We’re as eclectic as any other group, and there’s all kinds of ideas from people as to what is the best way to produce and provide our favourite medium. Here at the Sonic Society we are of the “Yes, please!” to all courses of our favourite meal. Whether people sell their works professionally, or ask for help from Patreon, Kickstarter, or as Cory Doctorow and the Sonic Society says “Let there be free entertainment!” this article Why Give Your Work Away For Free? suggests all kinds of value in the act.

What would you like to do?

Sound Thinking

July 31, 2015 / / 0 Comments

heartbeat“Would you rather lose your vision or your hearing?” the old question goes. Which one of your main senses would you feel like you could do without? It’s hard to imagine never being able to see a sunrise again, or experiencing the swaying of the tree tops in a light wind as the leaves leave their autumnal smatterings across the landscape. But, a world without sound would be at least as equally debilitating. We take more from sound than we truly realize. In this article Close Listening from Christopher Joyce in NPR, he muses how sound is important even as a diagnosis for the experienced physician. When we think on everything from the meditative singing bowl of Tibet, to the bells in school yards calling a change of classes, much of our lives are centred and structured by sound.

 

 

What are the Audio Drama Genres?

July 30, 2015 / / 0 Comments

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The late great (and sorely missed) Blake Snyder argued that the terms that we know as “genre”- those of fantasy, science fiction, mystery and the like- are poorly chosen. There are, after all many different kinds of horrors stories, westerns, even romance stories, and often they intersect with each other.

Instead, Mr. Snyder, in his book Save the Cat Goes to the Movies, brilliantly breaks down ten different genres. some of which are covered in this scriptmag article by Erik Bork.

One example, is Monster in the House in which Blake Snyder argues quite effectively that Jaws, Alien, and Cable Guy are all the same genre.

Take a moment to think about audio plays/radio drama. Certainly, there are crossroads with the movie genres that Blake Snyder identifies. But the question remains, are there genres you’ll only find in the audio drama medium?

 

Socially Sonic

July 29, 2015 / / 0 Comments

hammockIt’s the summertime and that’s a good time to sit back and listen to audio drama. But, for many writers, it’s also the time they can find a quiet place to work on their latest opus. The purpose of your writing may be entirely up to you, but Esta de Fossard decided that writing audio drama for social development was an excellent way to get the message across when you entertain.

Here is her own opus, appropriately titled How to Write a Radio Serial Drama for Social Development. While you’re lazing in your hammock, have a read, and a thought to how you can transform the world today with Audio story!

Reparations

July 5, 2015 / / 0 Comments

reparations_I_the_attorneys_k_anderson_yancyAn astounding twenty-three year project of research and production with over fifty actors in this full-cast audio drama called Reparations I: The Attorneys, provides a powerful tale of two African-American best friends and attorney’s seeking restitution and reparations for over 400 years of: Slavery, apartheid and vast forms of discrimination and genocide at the hands of the United States, all dealing with the fall out in their personal lives from such an action. At fifteen and a half hours, this colossal series would make an excellent summer listen! More on the details from the Birmingham Times.

Ear Canals

July 3, 2015 / / 0 Comments

OxfordMatt Oliver in the Oxford Mail points out a new trend in audio drama goodness- walking tours of historic sites. Or in this case, paddling tours of the Oxford Canals. Tom Dick and Debbie Studio, local based producers, have taken the winners of some historical plays about the Oxford Canal, developed, edited, and uploaded the four, 10-minute pieces to the Oxford Canal Heritage Project’s website. All were performed in the St. Barnabus Church, Canal Street structure and do an excellent job chronicling the history of the historic waterways.

In our interactive society, how many more great audio are we going to find out about?

 

Shred-AD Plans

July 2, 2015 / / 0 Comments

RedwoodWhat do you do when your plans to perform Shrek the Musical fall apart?

Why you go back to the drawing board- or the listening board as is the case of Redwood Area Theatre.

In this article from Redwood Falls Gazette by Joshua Dixon we discover:

Lorna Lueck-Plaetz, current RAT president, said, “We all figured, ‘Well, we won’t be doing a show this summer.’ Then board member Kurtis Parlin pointed out the Marshall theatre group has done some radio shows during the winter months.”

Two out of the three shows were taken from Old Time Radio:

• The Man Who Thought of Everything, about a couple planning to elope, with every possible contingency taken into account.

• The Wills, which originally starred Lucille Ball, is the story of a woman whose husband urges her to go to a lawyer to get a will, then goes to the store to buy rope, poison, etc. etc.

• A Retrieval Reformation, based on a short story by O. Henry, tells the story of a safe-cracker who’s wanted by the law — and the surprising way he is exposed.

Auditions were held June 11th, and now its all about getting the actors in costume and bringing he forties back to live on stage and in imagination. Go Redwood!

Outsourcing Your Audio Drama

June 27, 2015 / / 0 Comments

TelescopeWe’re in a very flexible time for audio drama, maybe the best time to be making it since its creation.

Case in point, New Hampshire Public Radio had the idea to Outsource A Radio Drama. After selecting Sean Hurley from NPR to manage the project, he went to Fiverr, the microjob website and selected everything from a psychic to pick the show title, to writers, actors and the like to produce.

The result was an interesting piece. Have a listen for yourself!

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