Audio Science Fiction "Searcher and Stallion"

[Scott Howard]

"Searcher awoke, alone, on a laboratory table, with an ageless body and no knowledge of his past. Now, in his exoskel, a powered suit of armor, he roams the galaxy with his robotic companion Stallion, seeking clues about his unknown origins."

This is more "Graphic Audio" than a podiobook. It's designed as a "pilot, or origin story" so its long on over explaining things that we'll be able to take for granted in future stories. Hopefully we've added enough mystery to keep audience attention. We're working on the 2nd story now. I have a plot arc that holds about 110 stories with outlines done for 75.

http:\\www.searcherandstallion.com

[Bryan Lincoln]

Excellent sound quality. Will have to give this a closer listen later on. Do you plan to use voice actors, or just a narrator and effects?

[Scott Howard]

I just uploaded eps 2 and 3 of 4

In ep 1 we hear a lot of "breath foley" out of the main character until he has someone to speak with about 20 minutes in. In eps 2,3,4 We have more spoken dialogue between the actors. There are many different styles of audio. Sometimes a single narrator throws his voice into different characters, sometimes a single character engages in "look-speak" to describe where they are. We decided for this particular show to let the narrator narrate, and let the characters speak. Some people will like it, some will prefer other styles.

[Craig Robertson]

Strong work, I like the quality and effort you've put in; very promising. I got tired real fast of the echo-narrator after the immediate intro, maybe go to un-dubbed deep voice w/o the echo for the bulk of the narration.

[Scott Howard]

Yes, the 1st scene is ethereal prose (and a bit wet on the reverb, I might dry that up). About 5 minutes into the 1st ep, we land on reality and lose the echo-ee reverb for the remainder of ep1 and eps 2,3,4. So after 5 minutes into ep 1 the narrator sounds like a regular narrator instead of some dream dreamy thing.