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The Deaf Writer’s Guide to Sound and Silence in Audio Drama

By Philip RobothamPosted on July 3, 2020July 3, 2020Posted in Blog, drama education, Writing for RadioTagged dialogue, music, narration, radio drama education, script writing, sound, speech, voices, volume1 Comment

As a person who has a hearing loss (deaf in one ear) I always feel a little awkward sharing thoughts on sound. After all, there are whole bands of sound-frequencies that I can’t detect that are available to everyone else, so who am I to express an opinion? However, my inability to detect certain pitches, […]

Tips for Keeping Your Audio Drama From Being Forgotten – Memory and Audience Focus

By Philip RobothamPosted on August 11, 2017April 4, 2018Posted in Blog, drama education, Writing for RadioTagged dialog, memory, scriptwriting, sound effects, volume1 Comment

This article was prompted by an excellent blog post by Jack Ward, on how an audio drama can lose an audience. I’ve expanded on those thoughts here to help us look at the slightly different topic of why some audio dramas are so easily forgotten and how this can be avoided by carefully employing Audio […]