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For #AudioDramaSunday, I’d like to let everyone know what the Audio Drama wing (responsible for @stealstarspod) of @gideonpth is doing right now. 1/18
At a time when the arts community has been decimated by the pandemic, we accidentally found ourselves with more work than we had before. TV/Film people realized they could make stuff with us and asked us to do so. 2/18
Here’s how we’re doing it. 3/18
We sent out casting notices all over the country via the breakdowns and then cast our shows without consideration of location or access to equipment. Actors are cast the same way as always – diversity and skill. 4/18
If an actor is a VO professional and has a home studio, then great. If not, we ship them equipment so they can record in their homes. Even people who don’t have *great* internet have recorded with us. 5/18
I send each actor a Lyra AKG microphone, a set of closed back SMH-1000 studio headphones, to control bleed in the room and a Ninja gooseneck mic clamp, so the mic isn’t resting on a desk where their arms are. 6/18
We spend a half hour at the beginning of each session going over the specifics (or the actors ask for a different time, their choice). I have them download Audacity, if they don’t have software, and we do a test session. 7/18
I forgot what this one was for 8/18
The actors get on a Zoom meeting with our director, the brilliant @thejordiwill, and they do the scenes with the other actors. Everyone is on the Zoom together and everyone is recording to their home computers. 9/18
(In two cases, the actors cast didn’t have laptops, so we sent them laptops that we either bought or rented.) 10/18
Every half hour or so, the actors will take a break. They export the audio that they’ve recorded and upload the WAV file to the “File” button on the Zoom chat. Three people from Gideon download the audio. 11/18
Once the session is over, we import the audio into Logic (though you could do it in protools or… anything, really. You could do it in Audacity if you want.) We’ve hired a few extra fantastic young audio professionals to create the first Timing Edit, using their system. 12/18
Once that happens and we have an initial edit that’s been approved by Jordana and whomever’s funding the project, we move on to the design edit and things move forward apace from there. 13/18
Right now, we have what can only be described as Survivor’s Guilt. I spend a certain amount of time every day trying to get work for everyone. There are people who need content and people who make content and I’m *really trying* to bring them together. 14/18
God, you guys. The people I’m talking to love what we’re all doing. They love this world. They love making stuff. And they work for companies with money who want to monetize, sure, but they love what all of us are making. 15/18
(But everyone I’m talking to… they have to pay our people that need work. I know I’m a broken record when it comes to this, but I have a hard time letting people with health insurance and a 401k to line-item-reduce actor salaries.) 16/18
I know I’ve disappeared, mostly. I’m not great at almost anything I do. But I’m determined to be great at bringing jobs to as many artists as I can, and making sure everyone gets paid. 17/18
The world is terrible and I have no answers.
Gideon is doing what we can to just... get work for everyone. That's pretty much all we're aiming for. It's nothing, but... it's something.
Everything is broken. I don’t know how to fix anything else, so I’m trying to fix this. /18
Gideon is doing what we can to just... get work for everyone. That's pretty much all we're aiming for. It's nothing, but... it's something.
Everything is broken. I don’t know how to fix anything else, so I’m trying to fix this. /18
