After my crit for sound studies and aural cultures I was given some really helpful ideas and advice, the main consensus was to slow things down and take a bit more time to explain things, there are some things I had assumed where common knowledge (like the concept of the fourth wall) which turned out not to be that has definitely made me consider who the paper is actually made for, I think I had been writing it for people vaguely in the storytelling space, both listeners and creators of Audio drama and actual play podcasts but perhaps, in order to get more people into the audio drama space who might not know much about it all, I should take the advice, the speed problem is definitely something I’m struggling with, there’s a lot to say and not a lot of time to say it in unfortunately.
Another point that was made was that it might be worth talking about the future of the medium, and this is definitely something I have written about before but I feel that this audio paper is focused more on the current relationship between listener and creator and that considering the future of the medium deserves its own space.
Something else that came up was that audio dramas should be exemplified earlier on in the paper, to solve this without adding extra time I’ve decided to edit the opening part as i would and audio drama, with footsteps, panning, ambiences and sound effects to boot. I think this will get the point across and will hopefully keep the listeners attention as well, as more things will be happening and it will become harder to lose oneself in the words.