The Big Drink
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It was a beautiful sunny September day and my family and I had been driving around for hours running errands. A milkshake sounded good so we pulled into a well known fast food restaurant and decided it was more economical to order a single large milkshake, rather than two smaller ones. (Mildly interesting footnote: Our little boy, Trevor, was still a baby at the time and didn’t drink milkshakes. Hence, the third member of the aforementioned “family”).
Cruddy drive up speaker: Chhhk. Chhhk. Hello, welcome to …[insert any fast food restaurant name here]… Chhhk.
Slight pause as customer tries to sort out 3,291 listed items, looking for desired food classification and general geographic area on sign real estate. Probably 8 seconds have elapsed, but this is like an eon in FFT (Fast Food Time).
The Interactive Writer and Designer Revealed
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In the domain of electronic media the job of the writer has always been a challenging and evolving craft. Traditional media presents its own demands, but the writer of interactive content must not only possess the skills of a good wordsmith, but also have a keen understanding of the multimedia production process itself. The interactive writer must be a designer, adept at creating stories, design documents, treatments, scripts, proposals, outlines, sitemaps, walkthroughs, and any other material related to the concept, theme, and development of a project.
Learning Lingo for Adobe Director eBook
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Learning Lingo for Adobe Director is an online eBook designed to teach basic to intermediate Lingo scripting techniques.
The eBook is comprised of 17 exercises and numerous code examples and Adobe Director Movies covering the following topics:
The Patch - Halloween Audio Drama
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Summary: Alone on Halloween, Jack Harper opens a psychic gateway and discovers more than trick-or-treaters on his doorstep.
Production Notes:
“The Patch” is an audio drama I wrote in 1985. I was in a college broadcasting program at the time and several of us in the class acted in dramas we wrote and produced. We were usually on a tight schedule so there were only a few readthroughs, and then we went live to 1/4″ 2-track tape, so we had to do everything in one take. Post production consisted of rolling a second 2-track reel-to-reel deck and playing music and sound effects from an analog cart machine while the dialogue tape played. I found this recently in my archive and decided to post it because I still like the story.
The Soundsketch Players in this production were: Dale Smith, Rom Bowers, and Candace Boroff. Dale still teaches at Central Wyoming College in the broadcasting program, Rom (now Rom Barkhordar) is a professional actor, and Candace is doing something interesting, I’m sure.
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