Tue, 13 May 2008  Jonas gets a less than warm welcome.Comments[2] |
Wed, 23 April 2008  Em's house turns out to be less deserted than Jonas hoped.Guest Starring Laurence Simon as "the Goblin" and DuckyFresh Watanabe as Sadie. Episode Recap by Christiana Ellis Comments[9] |
Tue, 22 April 2008 Your iPod is Not a Page Hey guys, Will here, chief sound mucky muck. I spent some time yesterday fretting over two things. 1) I keep missing my deadlines by a day or two. Nothing serious, but if I dropped the SFX, and even some of the voice casting, I could much more easily hit deadlines. 2) The way we've been writing the story, it will not translate to paper form without a LOT of rewriting. Some sections are completely audio based. Some sections are underwritten because a layer of ambient or SFX becomes the second storyteller. Then I remembered something I was told back in the days of webcomics. A very smart man once told me "Don't draw a page, draw a MONITOR. If you're doing webcomics as a back door into comics, you're half assing both YOUR chosen media, and the media you're hoping to get into. If you wanna draw or write paper comics, do that, and submit based on those rules. Don't try to take a shortcut." He's right. Monitors aren't shaped like pages, and neither are iPods. Drawing a paper comic and making people scroll down to read it just so you can hopefully resell it later does a disservice to your reader, the same way that us altering the story to make the process easier or more book friendly does a disservice to all of you. It says your listener (comic reader) is a stepping stone to "legitimate" work. It takes all the audio format spice out of podcasting and just makes your listeners beta testers. I'm not saying folks like Scott Sigler or JC Hutchins should rewrite their stuff, their novels were written with "legitimate" publication in mind, and when that didn't work out quite right they moved to podcasting (and Scott does a great job of adding a few SFX for spice, especially in Infection(Infested? Whatever it is now, chicken scissors FTW.)) But ours wasn't. It was meant to be a podcast. When the three of us sat down for the first story meeting in a hamburger restaurant sadly named "FudRuckers" we talked about ways podcasting could tell the story BETTER. For me to puss out and start making adjustments so I have to do less work or to try to push a square peg into a round hole is both lazy and disrespectful to all of you who come here for audio horror that's different. So, we may miss deadlines, maybe by a few days. But I promise, it will always be to make the story better. A voice wasn't right, a sound effect didn't sound like what I wanted it to, or what we wrote had so many continuity holes you could use it as a colander. If Christian doesn't like a voice, we don't drop the episode. If Chris isn't happy with his read, we don't release. I'll run myself ragged to get it done as close to every Monday morning as possible. But I promise, it's to give all you guys the best story possible. -Will Ross Sound Guy. Category: Rants -- posted at: 2:54 PM Comments[7] |
Tue, 15 April 2008 Fetch versus Franks, Jonas versus the dead things, and the horrors waiting just outside the door. Episode Recap by Karak Sindru. Comments[5] |
Tue, 8 April 2008 Em needs to be on meds, Jonas needs to be off, and the plan forms. Guest Staring Caleb as Horrace Greenly, and Wayne as Jackson Tate. Lise reads the Episode 5 recap. Episode Recap by Leis Mendel. Comments[4] |
Mon, 31 March 2008 A new addition to Greenly has the populace in an uproar and Jonas retuns to Sarah's home. Guest Stars Mikey from Public Nuisance Radio Kinsey reads the Episode Recap 4 Comments[3] |
Tue, 18 March 2008 Fetch catches up with Jonas and calmly expresses his displeasure. With a bat. Guest Stars: Cupcake and Tea (http://www.youtube.com/user/CupcakeAndTea), Michael Spense, Kevin Erhart as Em Caulton, Sean Roberts as Willie Fetch, Barb Ross as Margaret Hess. Radar Masukami reads the Episode 3 Recap Comments[5] |
Mon, 10 March 2008 An unexpected visitor offers Jonas a strange bargain. Guest Stars: Catie Miller as Sarah Goodman, Christian as Alex, Will as Wendel, Michael Spense as the Analyst Laurence Simon reads the Episode 2 Recap Comments[2] |
Sun, 2 March 2008 Jonas tells us a little more about town... and about the curious dreams he has nightly. Guest Stars: Catie Miller as Sarah Goodman, Michael Spence, and Laurence Simon as Mr Hurley. Laurence's podcast 100 Word Stories can be found at http://podcasting.isfullofcrap.com/ Daphne Abernathy reads the Episode 1 Recap Comments[8] |
Sun, 24 February 2008 Jonas introduces himself, and teaches us all some important lessons about Greenly. Guest Star: Michael Spence. More about Mike can be found at http://michaelspence.us Comments[1] |
