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To start off with, I wanted to create some kind of piece around a particular scene from the second season of my audio drama, Chain of Being. The scene in question is split up over the episode but in the interests of what I currently feel will end up as a live performance/series of tracks …
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As I start to get closer to writing the last few episodes of Chain of Being I’ve decided, acting on the advice of Jaci, that I’m going to start casting now. Most of the main roles have been written and decided on and we can always do a second round of casting later if any …
From the 17th to the 27th of march I went to New York and Philadelphia to meet with several members of Faustian Nonsense. Having worked with many of them for over 2 years remotely it was a very strange and exciting experience to meet with them in person. We spent much of the time socialising …
My placement with Faustian Nonsense has me mostly editing Super Suits, an audio drama sitcom about lawyers in a superhero world. This is a brief walk through of the process of editing an episode to try and show what I’m mostly up to during my DPS year We tend to do dialogue edits and then …
On the 19th and 20th I went down to High Wycombe to join in on Quirky Voices podfest. It was a really good experience that led to loads of new connections. While the various talks an performances over the weekend were really interesting I did find that the most valuable moments were in between, before …
In the first few weeks of my placement with FN I was more or less left to my own devices to get on with the work assigned to me, however I felt that there was a certain lack to structure, when I talked with Jaci about it we came up with the idea for weekly …
One of the projects FN is working on is Banshee, which is a library of sounds for audio drama producers to be able to purchase and use in their own projects, as the main sound designer involved I’ve been tasked with collecting sounds. One of the sound effects in the most high demand is footsteps, …
In august I went to the London Podcast festival to see a peer of mine perform, we had previously both performed at last years in a competition where the best new Audio Drama would get the chance to do a full live show at the following years, and this was that show. Overall it was …
As part of my time working for Faustian Nonsense, I have been tasked with doing the sound design for Super Suits, this is a total of 20 episodes, each about 30 minutes long. For each episode, I will go into the dropbox where we keep all of the individual voice lines for each character in …
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 …