Featuring panelists: @GabrielUrbinaTM @itsellenwinter @macwrites and Tristan Cowen
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Hi! @gabbilindgren here, I’m the Director of our Fiction Podcast Competition and I’ll be LIVE tweeting from our panel “Writing for Audio Fiction” in partnership with @WGAEast here in NY! Follow along on this thread for updates on the panel.pic.twitter.com/3P6TgBd1zz
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@macwrites first two shows started as commissioned works, always intended for audio, featuring a real pieces of GE techNäytä tämä ketju -
Tristan’s first show was based on a screenplay he wrote.
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“When you start writing, at a certain point you stop making and start following. The thing has its own will....what is it about the media I’m creating that makes it a good fit for the media I’m putting it in?” -
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“What can I accomplish in this media that cannot get made literally anywhere else?” -
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Early drafts of
#36questions included a narrator, and the writers found that it threw off the “intimacy” of the podcast both with the listener and within the characters’ relationship so it was eventually removed.Näytä tämä ketju -
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@itsellenwinter on using a framing device (think audio logs/acknowledging the recording) consider “how does the device solve the problem?”Näytä tämä ketju -
On including a narrator,
@macwrites wanted to include his as his stories have a “noir-ish feel” but in order to make it feel different he made sure the narration was always in the present tense and cuts in and out of scenes with other characters.Näytä tämä ketju -
Audience Q: “will I lose too much traction if I pause from releasing new episodes for a while?
@itsellenwinter and her writing partner @ctlittler keep their audience engaged by documenting their process, even if they don’t have new episodes coming out (1/2)Näytä tämä ketju -
They use behind the scenes photos from production, pictures of cast and creators, daily diaries and participate in
#AudioDramaSunday Most audiences are excited to get to know the creators outside of the podcast (2/2)Näytä tämä ketju -
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@GabrielUrbinaTM adds that “podcasting is built a lot on forming habits in your audience”Näytä tämä ketju -
All the panelists seem to agree that the biggest open space in podcasting in terms of genre are romcoms! Shout out to Deck the Halls with Matrimony for being one of the shows to fill this void.
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“Is podcasting going to turn into a sustainable field? I desperately want it to and I genuinely hope it is going that way.” -
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Audience Q: how do you format scripts for a podcast?
@GabrielUrbinaTM says if you’re writing one with the intention of producing it yourself, do whatever you want! But also, many writers use a standard screenplay format or the BBC radio format.Näytä tämä ketju
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