Category: Audio Drama

Audio Drama and the Invisible Wall

It’s podcasting! It’s radio! It’s audio drama! And audio comedy too! Whatever you call it, radio style fictional series are having a very big year on the interwebs. Big enough, in fact, so that our very own PEOPLE’S PILOT 2018 Writing Competition has a category (and special prizes and discount entry fees) for the writers working their butts off in this glorious revival.

Which brings us to this post sent to us by good friend Bob Tinsley about how to write your audio comedy, audio drama, radio, or podcast better than you’re probably writing it or them now:

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10 Reasons You Should Create Your Own Audio Series

We keep saying this, but, hey, we mean it: Audio Series AKA Audio Drama, AKA Audio Drama Podcasts, AKA Audio Dramacasts (and probably a whole lot more) are a wonderful way to get your muse off affordably. This article says it another way, and since a whole lot of y’all aren’t listening to us we thought we’d give this angle a try:

10 things I love (and hate) about audio drama podcasting
by Velma Kelly

Television for your ears.  I think that is the simplest way to describe an audio drama.  After discovering audio drama podcasts, I felt like I had found one of the industry’s best kept secrets and that I should guard it like Gollum with the ring.  I later realized it was no secret but, rather a misrepresented industry. I am here to tell you that audio dramas are not just for anyone but, more specifically, for EVERYONE.

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Listen and weep: ‘Audiobooks outdo films in emotional engagement’

True? False? What do you think? Seriously, we’re asking for your opinion here, so fire away.

by Alison Flood

As Arya Stark watches from the crowd, tears streaming, King Joffrey toys with her father Ned Stark before executing him in front of a baying crowd. This scene from Game of Thrones is harrowing in any medium – but a new University College London study has found that audiobooks are more “emotionally engaging” than film and television adaptations.

UCL, in collaboration with audiobook giant Audible, measured the physical reactions of 102 participants aged between 18 and 67 to audio and video depictions of scenes from books including A Game of Thrones, The Girl on the Train and Great Expectations. The scenes were chosen based on their “emotional intensity”, and for having minimal differences between the audio and video adaptations. For Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs, participants were shown or played Clarice’s interview with Dr Hannibal Lecter; in Pride and Prejudice, they witnessed Mr Darcy’s successful proposal to Elizabeth Bennet; and in The Hound of the Baskervilles, they heard and saw the first description of the beast. read article

Audio Series: Here’s an Audio Drama with Style

Well, it’s happened. TVWriter™ has officially recognized audio series (AKA scripted and plotted podcasts) pilot scripts as eligible for PEOPLE’S PILOT 2018 (with a special prize and lower than normal entry fee). A lot of our visitors, however, don’t understand much about them. The following, we hope, will fill in some blanks:

Jack Tracer: An Audio Drama With A Curious Style
by JV Torres

Anyone with a genuine interest in podcasts eventually happens upon audio dramas, which come in many varieties. Some have storylines ranging from lighthearted to ambiguous, but most have the essential elements that keep a story flowing. My curiosities always lead back to the plot, the setting, and the overall progression of the characters, though quite a few lose me in their filibustering narratives. Perhaps all those years at the university studying literature have finally come to fruition. The affinity for Shakespeare and the greatest novels and stories ever written sets the bar very high, as one might imagine. Therefore, it should be no surprise a person like myself would be finicky when choosing audio dramas to indulge in.

Audio dramas became a thing when I found some old CBS radio detective stories on podcast revivals. The horn lines dramatizing shock and awe and the ever confident detective stereotype had me hanging on every word. I could envision the offices, the bars, the clacking shoes on the pavement, running, chasing, cocking the gun, and taking aim before firing at the bad guy. The scenes played out so vividly in my imagination, I’m smiling just thinking about it. This is why out of all the many amazing audio dramas out there, I put Neon Nights: The Arcane Files of Jack Tracer in a special class. read article

A New Audio Drama From Bob Tinsley

The Real Wild Bill

by TVWriter™ Press Service

TVWriter friend and audio drama pundit, Bob Tinsley, has a new audio drama out called Wild Bill Hangs Up His Badge, Episode 35 of the Drift & Ramble Podcast.

Bob wrote, cast, directed, and produced the episode which explores the events leading up to Wild Bill Hickok’s decision to give up the life of a lawman.

For those who may not know much about him, James Butler Hickok, more popularly known as Wild Bill, farmed, drove freight wagons, fought for the North in the Civil War, scouted for George Armstrong Custer, gambled, prospected for gold, though Charlie Utter would have argued that point, and served as a lawman in various places in Kansas during his short life. read article