ADWIT: The Audio Drama Writers' Independent Toolkit 6630 Productions

Did you know that Buzzsprout has a dynamic content feature? It's true. Lindsay is testing it out right now. Here's the clip she tagged on in the post-roll to one of the episodes. See if you can find it! 
Thank you for listening, thank you to Ella Watts, and thank you to my next-door neighbor. 
To hear the horror piece that Lindsay, Sarah, and Ella worked on together, listen to https://tinyurl.com/Breathless-on-Podchaser.  
Season 2 of ADWIT  is coming soon. 
Music is Five Card Shuffle by Kevin McLeod. Visit his website at incompetech.com. 

What do writers and pilots have in common? Every time they go to work, they have to ask, "How do I land this thing now?" Join Sarah and Lindsay as they fly off in search of the tools to make the perfect ending or cliffhanger, and how to avoid crashing miserably.

WARNING: Spoilers and/or promo for Terms, Steal The Stars, Hadron Gospel Hour, Wooden Overcoats and The Amelia Project, season 1, as well as the movie Brazil. 

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Sound design, music, and additional voices by Vincent Friel.
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Special thanks to Philip Thorne, Oystein Braga, Alan Burgon and Julia C Thorne of the Amelia Project. 
Avanti! 


Thank you for listening, thank you to Ella Watts, and thank you to my next-door neighbor. To hear the horror piece that Lindsay, Sarah, and Ella worked on together, listen to https://tinyurl.com/Breathless-on-Podchaser.  Season 2 of ADWIT  is coming soon. Music for the dynamic content is Five Card Shuffle by Kevin McLeod. Visit his website at incompetech.com. 

Recording at a distance from your fellow audio drama artists is challenging. Lindsay and Sarah discuss some ways that writers can make scripts easier for voice actors and sound designers.  Plus: what makes an ideal recording environment? How do telephones work on you?  Why do you need a good sound bed? What is the secret of Pittsburgh's jukeboxes?  What did Oscar Wilde think of baseball?

Warning and/or Bonus: Spoilers or promo for Homecoming and The Tower
Resources:
MADIVA podcast episode 108- remote recording
Wooden Overcoats behind the scenes videos: Recording The Final Scene and Season 2: Behind The Scenes
Bombs Always Beep by K. C. Wayland
How to Record a Podcast Remotely: Best Call Recording Apps (The Podcast Host)
Pittsburgh Telephone Music Service

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Avanti!

What does audio drama do that other forms of art and media can't? How does it do it? What's the recipe for doing it? Join Sarah and Lindsay on a field trip as they try to find that mysterious  element that makes audio drama meaningful and special.

Warning and/or Bonus: Spoilers for Can You Help Me Find My Mom, The Truth podcast

Resources:
Phila Museum of Art’s Duchamp Galleries
Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending A Staircase
Fountain
This is Your Brain On Podcasts (Freakonomics Radio, ep 262)
Sight Unseen, by Elissa Guralnick (affiliate link)
An Artist Descending A Staircase, Tom Stoppard (affiliate link)
Fidget, 11th Hour Audio Challenge
U+1f60c by James T. Green
PMHx by James T. Green
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Image: This is an anonymous clinical image provided by Aaron G. Filler, MD, PhD. The patient has signed a release for use of the anonymized image for educational, research, and teaching purposes. The image was converted from DICOM acquisition format into jpeg format, anonymized, and posted by Dr. Filler. It is intended for GDFL licensure for reuse for academic, scientific, educational uses without further permissions. Attribution to Aaron Filler, MD, PhD is requested.

Feeling stuck? Sarah and Lindsay are your tow truck. In this episode we go for a walk in the rain and chit chat about the things creative people do to sabotage themselves. We'll also share some strategies you can use to get out of the mud, get inspired and get writing again. 
Warning and/or Bonus : Spoilers for Prodigal Son‘s Season 1, which is not an audio drama. 
Resources:
Lynda Barry: Syllabus, Making Comics (affiliate links)
Neil Gaiman on libraries & daydreaming for The Guardian
Stanford study finds walking improves creativity
Jessca Abel: Idea Debt
Write or Die, and Written? Kitten! 
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Adoration of the Magi

Betrayal by Harold Pinter (affiliate link)
Sleep No More
Ryan by Chris Landreth
Ryan by Chris Landreth on YouTube (CW: mental health vs. trauma, addiction & recovery, suicide, self-harm, Lindsay loves this movie, relevant discussion at 6:22)

Image under a Creative Commons license via Wikimedia Commons, from cgpgrey.com
Sound effects from freesound.org: 
Going on a forest road gravel and grass.wav by straget 
Cork by sjnewton 
Bottle Clink by FillSoko
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How can a story told one way be told in a different way, without losing its impact? How can a non-audio-drama story make the most of audio drama's craft? Join Sarah and Lindsay as they sort out some tools to better understand some best practices in adaptation for audio drama.

Warning and/or Spoilers: War of the Worlds,  Jarnsaxa Rising,

Resources:
Albert's Beginner's Guide to Symphonic Metal
The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells at Gutenberg.org
War of the Worlds by Mercury Radio Theater (YouTube link)
The Infamous "War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast Was a Magnificent Fluke Smithsonian magazine
Time After Time trailer (YouTube link)
Thrymskvitha, or The Lay of Thrym
Weird World Studios: adapting The Gift of The Magi
The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence

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