The Mask of Inanna

[beetiger]

My friends read_alicia, asoundguy, and a bunch of other cool folks have just launched a new podcast audio drama, The Mask of Inanna. I've been involved with editing the scripts since the early draft stages, and they are wonderful. I've just gone and listened to the first episode, and it's better than it sounded in my head.

Anyone who is interested in old-time radio drama, complex interpersonal drama, mystery, or just plain old Stuff That's Good, do go check this out.

WEBSITE: http://www.themaskofinanna.com/
DIRECT DOWNLOAD: http://themaskofinanna.com/download/PMRP-MaskOfInanna-Ep1.01_Pilot.mp3
TWITTER FEED: twitter.com/maskofinanna
PODCAST FEED: http://www.themaskofinanna.com/?feed=podcast

Comments

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Also, I hear the bad guy is just dreamy.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Hi, one of those other cool folks! :) Yeah, I was totally swooning in the car while I was listening. I swear!

[barberio.livejournal.com]

Can I suggest cutting the 'After Dark' introduction up to "And so it ends...". It goes on a little too long, and confuses your hook. Maybe put it up separately as a 'Extra Feature'.

It needs transitional sections at a couple of points, to prevent jarring the listener. There needs to be something that the listener can expand out into the passage of time, in the same way that a row of asterisk or a chapter ending can in a book. Music and broadcast quality segued together over the years maybe?

[read-alicia.livejournal.com]

Noted, thanks. I may increase the volume of the SFX that bookend scenes, (such as the doors opening in the lighthouse).
We don't have enough music to transition every scene with music.

Also, I am extrapolating that since you haven't mentioned anything about the plot, dialogue, acting, and music, that they all worked for you. Thank you!

[barberio.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, added to my itunes subscriptions. I'd also consider putting the full lead radio section at the end, edited in to the episode presented. It'll be a little tighter into your hook at the start, and less dependant on the listener having to join up the two radio sections presented out of order.

[read-alicia.livejournal.com]

Actually, that was deliberate. A major theme of the show is uroboros - people repeating the same mistakes over and over when similar situations arise. As there is no start or end to these cycles, jumping in anywhere is slightly disorienting to the new observer - that's what I'm trying to capture. It's avant-garde, but I don't want the show to be entirely comfortable.

We don't do this in any future episodes though - we play them straight through. This is just one of those little revolutionary declarations that portends where we're going.

Anyway, thanks for the subscription!

[barberio.livejournal.com]

(This is a little tricky to explain, and I'll probably get it wrong.)

Presentation of confusion is best, at least to me, when the presentation is not confused it's self. For instance, some of my favourite direction was in 'The Shining' and 'Ring'. The subjects of which are intentionally confusing, but the presentation of that confusion is clearly given. If you're too confusing in the presentation, then you actually don't present confusion as the subject of the story.

[read-alicia.livejournal.com]

I get what you're saying. Yeah, first episode jitters and all that - we tried for the golden ring and got a copper instead. The rest of the episodes will be done more straightforward, I promise! (And I know this because I already wrote them all.)

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

Piled it onto the Download Pile. Have fun with it!