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Audio Fiction with Fred – Week 3

Week 3! We talk about directing and recording a show the basics of audio editing, an introduction to Reaper and Audacity, and what a dialogue edit looks. 

Bonus Video:

Recording Session “The Bloody Mess”

Additional Bonus Material

Soapbox – Dialogue 102 with Fred, Part 1

Soapbox – Dialogue 102 with Fred, Part 2

Advance to Week 4

Some Additional Recommended Listening:

This is not even a start at scratching the surface of stuff you should check out, but here are a few shows I’ve been thinking about recently that do some interesting mix-ups of the way story is told

HUNGRY EARTH – decadent single narrator program with SFX and music underscore, from real-world location in south of England
https://soundcloud.com/corneliuszg/hungry-earth-mix01

TRACKS – a mind-bending, complex layered conspiracy thriller
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07nsf2x

JANUS DESCENDING – Nonlinear cosmic horror tale set in space. Oh yeah, it’s fun!
https://www.nosuchthingradio.com/janus-descending

PASSENGER LIST – One of the break-out fiction hits of the last year, which does a lot of really interesting things in the way it unveils the narrative
https://passengerlist.org/

BRAIN CHEMISTRY – A cryogenically-frozen man is revived in the future, to a world that is not quite what he expected. THE TRUTH show is consistently awesome and changes up format a lot, this one does some really neat things with POV and tells a story in a way that you really only can do in audio…
http://www.thetruthpodcast.com/story/2017/9/27/brain-chemistry

More resources for the radio history junkies:

I sent some resources to someone who was interested in more of the academic track understanding the emergent audio fiction scene — honestly these all need a post 2015 update but for earlier background this is some good stuff… thought I’d share with y’all

  • My senior thesis on radio drama – http://www.finalrune.com/dead/radio.htm
  • A paper by a colleague on the early days of radio drama emergence on the internet –  https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c5d3/b56c44ed19e37ff9769c03515dd422b24363.pdf
  • Interview with scholar Neil Verma about radio history – http://www.radiodramarevival.com/episode-484-going-deep-neil-verma-lights/

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