FinalRune Academy: Recent Episodes
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HOLY MOLY IT’S THE LAST CLASS! We talk about the final touches on a distribution mix, the differences between mixing and mastering, how to package up your show for distribution, and some 101 on distribution and marketing a podcast. Now go out and make some great audio fiction!!!
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Week 4! We dig into the art of sound design and some more advanced dialogue editing/processing techniques PRO TIP – NEVER NEVER plug/unplug a USB device while a recording is ‘hot.’ … you’ll see I almost blow up the whole class by trying to do that on this video, ha… the webcam was plugged […]
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Week 3! We talk about directing and recording a show the basics of audio editing, an introduction to Reaper and Audacity, and what a dialogue edit looks. Bonus Video: Recording Session “The Bloody Mess” Additional Bonus Material Soapbox – Dialogue 102 with Fred, Part 1 Soapbox – Dialogue 102 with Fred, Part 2 Advance to […]
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Scriptwriting II, of casting calls, recording, and other fun stuff You’ll learn: Why I tend to structure in ~30min chunks and what exactly goes into each 30 minutes. How to break apart a bigger narrative story, and my approach to writing when I know I’m attacking a big project and need to start somewhere. Then, […]
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Week 1! Intro to Audio Fiction, radio drama history, audio scriptwriting 101 Welcome to Audio Fiction with Fred! In the first week’s course, we cover: Introduction to Fred Overview of modern audio fiction including a dive into radio drama history in the USA 1930s – present Audio scriptwriting – what makes an audio script work […]
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Here are a sampling scripts from Fred’s early works that are available for use to record, produce, and release on the internet for educational and non-commercial use. The only requirement is that any productions you release publicly have a reference to my name (Fred Greenhalgh) and reference back to this website (www.finalrune.com). My twitter handle […]
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Published in February of 2020, Of Fae & Fiends is my most personal work to-date, which is a bit odd to say given the fact that it’s a faerie tale. The story evolved from various walks my daughter Nyana (7 at the time) and I would go on in the woods, and the prompt “Dada, […]
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Lizzie (Marie Lane), 10, visits her family’s ancestral farmhouse in Maine, and discovers that the woods behind the house contain an amazing secret: a gateway into the mystical land of Faerie. Yet, a dark cloud looms over the horizon of this fantastic land: Lizzie’s Great-Uncle Carlow (Peter Berkrot), has corrupted the goblin kingdom and plans […]
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It was an honor to have Dagaz Media be invited to the inaugural Podtales conference in Boston to offer a workshop on microphone technique. Our goal with the workshop was to bring some gear into the room and illustrate that microphone choices are the audio fiction equivalent of paint brushes, or camera lenses. Microphones all have unique properties and there rarely is a ‘wrong’ choice — just different choices that vary depending on the context, resources available to the creator, and subject matter / tone of their piece.
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It’s a fantastic day for audio fiction podcasts in Apple Podcasts (still far and away the most important discovery and listening platform for these shows). See the new category listing here: ApplePodcasts.com/Fiction For many years, a common complaint amongst fiction podcasts — spanning the range from full fledge radio drama/audio drama to narrative-based, single or […]
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