More fun from our friends over at Vexation Audio as they sit down and talk about the differences between modern Audio Drama in Britain and North America and speak about Gaia’s Voyages, Broken Sea, and our own Dead Line anthology.
Have a listen to Rik and Matt’s round up here.
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Sonic Society listener and audio drama producer in her own right Julie Hoverson from 19 Nocturne Blvd has been collecting audio drama shows for Radiomensa (a super place to find great OTR!).
Electric Vicuña Productions’ show “Messages” from The Dead Line Anthology will have a release today so slip on over and listen to one of my favourite plays.
Messages: When Stanley Coakley tries to escape a secret he finds it and murder follow him after a weekend away – with messages.
The Dead Line Anthology Series have separate suspense/thriller episodes with the kind of twists you might find in Alfred Hitchcock Presents. With the narration by an unknown eavesdropper, the Dead Line is one call you can’t afford to miss! [Written by Jack Ward, presented by the Sonic Society, produced by Electric Vicuña Productions
It’s funny how times change.
No matter how you slice it, the Apple computer has always had to play second banana to Microsoft’s Windows.
But there’s one thing Apple has certainly gotten a jump over the competition, and that’s the mp3 player and the means to distribute it. Never to be down to the mat for long, MS’s Zune is back to square off against the giant with one “I“.
And with thanks to the folks from Farpoint Media, we’re now squarely in both territories. In the itunes store, and now available through Zune- The Sonic Society.
Times change, but we’re just happy to bring you great Audio Drama in whatever form we arrive.
Audio Drama. Movies you have to hear to believe.
With thanks to Bill Hollweg from Broken Sea for passing this out to us!
Finding great help to make good audio drama is always a special treasure, and this is no exception. Thanks so much for the folks that put this fun series together. Check it out!
F.A.M.E.
Since the launch of Star Wars Fanworks in 2003, we have been featuring not just fan audio productions, but articles on how it’s done. With tutorials, features, casting calls, and other methods, we have hoped to act as a parton of the fan audio art form, particularly among Star Wars fans.
From August 2005 through January 2007, Star Wars Fanworks offered fan audio listeners the F.A.M.E. podcast series, better known as Fan Audio Made Easy. In this series of short tutorials and hints, longtime fan audio community members like Rayzur’s Edge Audio’s Nathan P. Butler and Outcast Multimedia’s Rich Sigfrit share the insights they’ve gleaned in their years of fan audio experience with the genre’s newcomers, in the hope that the field will continue to grow in the years to come.
After some long thought and a whole lot of input from a lot of special people and with the kind indulgence of Jeremy over at Audio Drama Directory we are proud to introduce the Audio Drama Ratings System!
So, why the ADRS?
Well, I’ve been approached by people, educators, and other folks asking, “So what is the rating for this?”
The question varies, but it’s always about the same thing. Folks want to know what kind of material is in the audio stories that are listening.
So we’ve given a rating and a certification process so that anyone going to an Audio Drama company’s website will get a feel for what’s out there.
Suddenly, I feel like we’re at the movies!
… Oscar Wilde’s famous last quote still sticks in my head often. Wilde is one of my favourite writers if I had to narrow down to five, and its exciting when any one does his work.
Usually “The Importance of Being Earnest” is as popular to do in audio drama worlds as “A Christmas Carol” and “Dracula” but this time out its Death in Genoa starring Simon Callow and Samuel Barnett.
Check out other Independents as well with Turing’s Test and Suzie Pugh and a Monster Too for the kiddies.
With thanks to Hudson for bringing attention to this for us on ADT.
Tim Crook takes a crack at the magic of Radio Drama and our hats off to the man in this lovingly produced article on Radio Drama- Theory and Practice!
Great read, and a great opportunity to remind ourselves that we’re not just honouring the past with Audio Drama, we’re preparing the future!
In life, a little rain must fall, and that rain always irrigates good discussions and ideas.
Currently there’s a lot of discussion about a review process for Audio Drama- a peer review. Chris Moody has begun one at Audio Cinema Review (Thanks for using Audio Cinema as a term Chris, I still like it!)
One of the problems with the idea is who should review Audio Series? There’s lots of folks out there who’ve been in the game a long time, and I think, personally, a round table of sorts would work best.
Now a couple years back when I first spoke about Sonic Gold I had also considered Sonic Workshop, a place where through the permission of the producers we could look at a show or a series with a panel of other Audio Drama enthusiasts to critically speak about the benefits and flaws of the show.
And I sat and waited. No one offered their show for dissection. That’s understandable. But just as understandable is our need to go through it. So the call is out again. If you’re a writer/producer and want your show reviewed and looked at. Send me the show and I’ll find the panel to do it, and add Sonic Workshop on as often as once a month to the feed if there’s interest. We’d look at writing, acting, and production pieces. It would be a blast.
The call is still out there… will anyone answer it?
I make no bones about it. I consider Jack Benny to be one of a handful of comedic geniuses this world has to offer. Son of a saloonkeeper, Benny could “sling ’em” with the best of them. In his later years, he could read names out of a phone book and have people clutching their stomachs with laughter.
Benny’s show still holds the record for the longest laugh but some of the funniest things he did was nothing at all. A pause said to the audience more about what Jack was thinking than his lines did after a while.
Benny’s timing was impeccable. He knew exactly when to go for the juggular, and when to hold off and draw in his prey.
Comedians should take note, there hasn’t ever been anyone finer, although there’s been folks who have equalled him at times.
And now, from boing-boing, we get a new travesty… rare Jack Benny treasures that were found, and just as quickly sealed up again.
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