There was a very interesting exercise today in sound studies in Aural cultures, we took a page from a book and removed parts to place focus on words and phrases that relate to our work and interests for the audio paper we will be doing, I decided to take words that relate to my feelings toward audio drama. It ended up revealing itself to be a poetic jumble of words that directly and tengentially related, the last two “queer” and “perspective” were particularly interesting, an idea that formed the basis of my essay last year and something that I still think about.
I’ve been considering more about what topic to choose, I definitely want to explore other aspects of the medium, it’s quite overwhelming the amount there is to look into. I’ve been thinking about looking in to the role of narration in modern audio based storytelling. There are a myriad of forms it can take which are often chosen for a reason or are specific to a genre. One example may be the role of the Game Master in actual play podcasts, the story is guided by this person and while specific situations are set up it revolves around responding and working with the input of a player. Alternatively the role of a narrator in a classic audio drama is quite different and can take a variety of forms. I would probably find this easier to approach as narration is not specific to AD but I would still like to focus it a lot more toward audio based storytelling as theres a lot that could be said. Frustratingly, more than I could fit in to 8 minutes