{"id":8693,"date":"2021-04-07T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/?p=8693"},"modified":"2021-04-07T17:55:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:55:45","slug":"desperately-seeking-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2021\/04\/07\/desperately-seeking-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"desperately seeking sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After nearly two years of working on an audio drama, I’ve come to wonder if I should have spent more time thinking about the audio part and less on the drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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a view of <20% of the details<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s not that we haven’t sweated the details. I don’t think I’ve ever sweated the details so much in my life. It’s that the story engine might possibly be better if it were more closely tied to what we hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this story, I stole (or copied) from The Conversation<\/a>, a movie<\/em> about sound. And so the hearing that matters is largely dialogue. Which is fine. We remember the things people tell us more than any discrete sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I wonder if it wouldn’t have been a more interesting experience for the listener if the protagonist was actively seeking out sounds; if they were walking into different audio environments searching for specific sounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That would have been a more lean-forward experience. And I guess those are the ones that animate me the most. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

postscript<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been told: your audio drama has to play well when someone is doing the dishes. Why, though? Can people play video games while doing the dishes? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are video games more or less popular today than 10, 20, 30 years ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more we make video and audio work as “background”, the less engaging it becomes. The less engaging, the less popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After nearly two years of working on an audio drama, I’ve come to wonder if I should have spent more time thinking about the audio part and less on the drama. It’s not that we haven’t sweated the details. I don’t think I’ve ever sweated the details so much in my life. It’s that the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,10,14,16,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8693"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8701,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions\/8701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}