We are a week past the Great Recording Weekend of 2010 and now begins the Great Audio-Editing-Stravaganza. While Levi (you can call him Viper) is helping to get all the technical pieces in place such as the new website, Jason and I have begun the long and arduous process of splicing and dicing all of the audio tracks into something resembling scenes full of witty banter and riveting drama. Considering that we’re working from our own scripts, this might be difficult. But we’ll make the effort.
Although we have the bulk of some episodes ready to edit, there are still many, many steps before we can release Episode 1 for your listening pleasure. We have more episodes to record. Then in addition to putting together all of the dialog, we need to add all of the sound effects — and you should see my shopping list of sounds! I’m currently on the hunt for things ranging from shuffling cards to smashing wood to spooky moaning – and I have to admit, I’m having way too much fun. I’m really enjoying seeing how many of these things I can find in that magical land known as “The Internet.” Some of the effects we’ll have to try and re-create ourselves so I might just have a “Pretend to be a Foley Artist!” party later this summer. But for now, it’s like a treasure hunt — and there are few things I love more than treasure hunts.
Once we get an episode or two ready to go, we send it off to our composer, who will write the soundtrack for the episode. Wait. Let me say that again. We will send the finished episode to OUR COMPOSER. We have an actual composer doing the soundtrack… and he has actual talent. We’ll be doing a profile on Brad a little later on this summer. (Brad, if you’re reading this – can we do a profile on you?) We have so many amazing people who have volunteered to help us on this project that the world needs to know more about, so if I have my way, stay tuned for several awesome-people-profiles in the months to come.
In the meantime, watch for more details on how you can be a part of the show. We still have roles available, for instance — particularly if you have a male voice. We are also still looking for album artwork for some of our episodes. And there are lots of other ways to get involved. We hope to have more concrete information about that as the website grows. In the meantime, give us your feedback on the site, drop us a line, ask us a question or two — we’d love to hear from you.
Seriously. We’d love to hear from you. Otherwise, we have to keep getting feedback from our family members. Here are some typical responses:
My father: “Honey, you’re going to have to explain to your dear old dad what an audio drama podcast is.”
My mother: “Is there any way that you can get paid for this? You saw that Julia Child movie, right? That was from a blog. She made money. Are you getting paid for this?”
Jason’s mother: “You’ll have to tell me where I can buy the podcast when it’s finished.”
Jason’s father: “That’s nice, but it’s no Gunsmoke.”
(You can see our predicament.)
More from us very soon! Thanks for hanging out with us here at Escape Clause!
