Right off the bat I managed to secure a placement with Reduced Listening on a BBC R3 production called ‘The Get’. I acted as production coordinator, essentially setting up the recording spaces and marking takes as they got recorded. The way this production was unusual in the way that they didn’t have all the actors set up in front of a static microphone but instead had them move about a space, blocking out the scenes, providing them with props and actual food to eat and so on. This really allowed the actors (who were mostly theatre and tv/film people) to be more comfortable and get more dynamic performances out of them. All of the scenes were also recorded in acoustically live spaces that best approximated where the scene was taking place (kitchen, car, bedroom etc.). Overall this was a really eye opening experience and definitely has led me to think differently about my own process for recording my own Audio Fiction works.
Despite only being 3 days it was still very informative and I feel that having a reduced listening production under my belt will be an amazing thing to have on my CV when applying to other big Audio Fiction studios.