Monday, April 7, 2014

Dealing with exposition. Death to the red-shirts!

One of the challenges with creating an audio play is that I need to be able create a picture of the scene in the listeners head without resorting to a tonne of clunky sounding exposition. As an example. Let's say you have two characters - John and Nick - and Nick is wearing a red shirt. How do...

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Project Update: Creating a sound environment.

One of the main challenges with this project is determining which parts of the story can be told through dialogue and descriptions, and which parts can be told through sound effects. I thought it would be fun to try and put together a short audio piece that tells the story of the main character...

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

The drone hive

Whilst exploring a vast derelict I discovered a drone hive. I've probably been detected already. If you're reading this message I'm already dead....

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Fiction: A day in the life

After dropping out of warp, I carefully steered my 'Primae' class explorer ship into a stationary orbit around a barren desert planet, in the 'Dour' solar system. Dour is a solar system that is notorious for pirate activity, and for the mineral wealth of its planets and asteroid fields. There was...