The Inside Anika Lee Vroom
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Shrouded in unanswered questions, The Inside contains a collection of the abnormal: bodyshifters, not-so-street-magicians, involuntary fortune tellers, and more... and they want out.
Slice-of-life fantasy with a chilling edge, The Inside is an original audio drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom. Woven together from the tales of unlikely heroes, this patchwork story is set in an unforgiving space that seems to have a mind of its own. A mystery unfolds though the voices of the individuals trapped there as they struggle to escape.
Currently on hiatus until: July, 2023.
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Reddit: r/welcometotheinside ( https://www.reddit.com/r/welcometotheinside/ )
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Episode 6: Through the Frame
Alex listens in on the adventures of a man caught in a predicament not much different from his own... will either be able to escape?
Creator's note: This episode is a bit different from the rest and includes soundscapes that are better experienced with headphones. For this week, I got some friends into the recording booth with me - a special thanks to them for letting me borrow their voices and putting up with my countless retakes!
This episode features:
Sjoerd Heegstra as Alex West
Jorijn Holstvoogd as Jeremy Fischer
Julia Rudlang as Officer Lawrence
Music by Noa Maria Hartog, Vera Anne Hartog, and Max Cruz Perez.
Sound effects this week by ingudios, kimuracarter, tom_a73, Splushionsindasky, kyles, Sandermotions, GoodListener, Sheyvan, bmcken, SophieMezaM, Kiyoshiakira, rivernile7, Sethroph, dheming, DWOBoyle, ListenTonyBoy, wolfdoctor, rachaelbuchanan, yewbic, crashoverride6, Astounded, snuq, hargissssound, LamaMakesMusic, InspectorJ, NachtmahrTV, MWsfx, AntoineRomo and previously credited artists via freesound.org.
The Inside is an audio-drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International License. For more information or to get in touch, visit okermoments.com/projects. -
Episode 5: Oversharing
What if... emotions were tangible?
Content warning: contains slight themes of mental health and emotional disorders
Special thanks to:
Elizabeth Vroom, Morgana Bird, and Tessa Vroom, for feedback and support.
Voices:
Alex West played by Sjoerd Heegstra
Cassandra Backster played by Anika Lee Vroom
Music by Noa Maria Hartog, Vera Anne Hartog, and Max Cruz Perez.
Sound effects this week by GregorQuendel, szegvari, ERH, Tri-Tachyon, Lex777, NachtmahrTV, and previously credited artists via freesound.org.
Creator's note: Here's another what if that sparked a story. This episode had the second most rewriting (the first episode was completely rewritten three times and still had a lot of major edits after that), probably because this is my first attempt at writing romance in over 13 years, so it was quite a challenge. Only time will tell how effectively I tackled it. One of my favourite parts of writing short stories strung together is that I get to try out different genres (one of the big downsides is that I have to come up with names - lots of names - not to mention characters).
The Inside is an audio-drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International License. For more information or to get in touch, visit okermoments.com/the-inside. -
Episode 4: Dice
Scott Faulkner picked up an unwanted entourage... is it a blessing or a curse?
Special thanks to:
Elizabeth Vroom, Morgana Bird, and Tessa Vroom, for feedback and support.
Voices:
Cassandra Backster played by Anika Lee Vroom
Music by Noa Maria Hartog, Vera Anne Hartog, and Max Cruz Perez.
Sound effects this week by Space_Radio, phantastonia, and previously credited artists via freesound.org.
Creator's note: One moment in this story is directly inspired by an anecdote that one of my family members told me... It's always fun to work little things like that into my writing (and definitely not a trick I use to get past writer's block haha... haha...ha...).
The Inside is an audio-drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International License. For more information or to get in touch, visit okermoments.com/projects. -
Episode 3: Ghostgirl
What if you saw people where they couldn't be?
Special thanks to:
Elizabeth Vroom, Morgana Bird, and Tessa Vroom, for feedback and support.
Voices:
Nathanial Barrowich played by Schuyler Garfield
Cassandra Backster played by Anika Lee Vroom
Music by Noa Maria Hartog, Vera Anne Hartog, and Max Cruz Perez.
Sound effects this week by FunWithSound, Lex777, tdumoulin, MaxDemianAGL, deleted_user_7146007, klankbeeld, janbezouska, PatrickLieberkind, GregorQuendel, kjartan_abel, Bergstein, and previously credited artists via freesound.org.
Creator's note: This series of stories started out with a series of what-ifs. Here's one of them.
The Inside is an audio-drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International License. For more information or to get in touch, visit okermoments.com/projects. -
Episode 2: Changer
A young woman lives with different faces.
Special thanks to:
Morgana Bird and Tessa Vroom for their endless patience and feedback as I kept bringing them draft after draft like a dog that wants to play fetch.
Frances Byrd, Vita Schouten, and Elizabeth Vroom for additional feedback and support.
Music by Noa Maria Hartog, Vera Anne Hartog, and Max Cruz Perez.
Sound effects this week by kjartan_abel (Darkest Thursday, Winterstorm I, and Noir) and previously credited artists via freesound.org.
Creator's note: Hope you are enjoying the show! You might notice the soundscaping is different than the previous episode. Just as each story is unique, the storytelling method might surprise you from time to time. Titles often trip me up, so when drafting I often put in placeholders based off of some random association I have. I actually meant to find a different title for this one (as a joke when writing the original draft I'd titled it "Ch-Ch-Ch-Changer (Face the Strange)" and kept forgetting to re-name it...) but got so used to this that, well, here we are haha. On a completely different note, did anyone notice something unusual about one of the names in this particular tale?
The Inside is an audio-drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International License. For more information or to get in touch, visit okermoments.com/projects. -
Episode 1: Memories
Welcome to The Inside...
A boy who gets lost in his own memories attempts to retrace his steps.
Note: This episode contains additional soundscaping, it is recommended to listen with headphones for the best experience.
Special thanks to:
Morgana Bird and Tessa Vroom for their endless patience and feedback as I kept bringing them draft after draft like a dog that wants to play fetch.
Frances Byrd, Vita Schouten, and Elizabeth Vroom for additional feedback and support.
Tessa Vroom for lending her audio editing expertise and helping me create my own sound.
Music by Noa Maria Hartog, Vera Anne Hartog, and Max Cruz Perez.
Sound effects this week by Jack_Hase, sidequesting, leonelmail, Tetrisrocker, 16GPanskaSibinska_N, joseph.larralde, huskpodcast.com, qubodup, blouhond, avakas, suhral, dibko, marcelweiss, Eelke, seventhsamurai, NachtmahrTV, shall555, whirlproductions, j1987, 15GPanskaZacekSamuel, amholma, kyles, qubodup, luminadii, Yuvaland previously credited artists via freesound.org.
The Inside is an audio-drama podcast created by Anika Lee Vroom and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0 International License. For more information or to get in touch, visit okermoments.com/projects.