Elena is a tropical-blooded Puerto Rican living in Portland, OR. She is a graduate student in forensic sociolinguistics, with a background in education, writing, and translation. She would probably like to talk to you about having a press kit and transcripts for your podcast.
Current favorite podcasts: The Big Loop, The Heart, Heaps of Unreal Images, Starcalled
Author: Elena Fernández Collins
What should community engagement look like?
It’s been a rough and busy few weeks on the internet for the audio fiction community, huh. We’ve had some conversations where I think we were, at the very least, diplomatically disappointed. And it’s been in general a super busy …
What’s the way forward for queer representation in audio drama?
It’s Pride month, and I decided that I wanted to talk queer representation in media, in audio drama and elsewhere: what we’re doing right, what we’re not doing right, and why it matters to even talk about it at all. …
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Has the Long Night Come to Stay?
Back in March, I had an interview with Brendan Baker, the director for Wolverine: The Long Night, and combined it with a review of the first three episodes. Now that Wolverine’s last episode has been released on Stitcher Premium, set to go on …
How big can the podcast-to-television snowball effect get?
You’ve probably been following the steady flow of news about podcasts landing TV adaptation deals, not even necessarily on purpose: Lore with Amazon and My Brother, My Brother and Me originally on NBC’s Seeso and 2 Dope Queens specials on HBO, to name a few. Making …
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What are we aiming for with “first-person immersion”?
When I say “first-person immersive audio”, do you think of The Walk or Wolverine? Do you imagine lines like “you have the wrench in your hands” or do you hear binaural audio wrapping around your head? This desire to pull audio listeners into …
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The Portrayal of Multiple Languages in Audio
In the retrospective Casting it Back today, there is one particular audio drama that has triggered my own reinspection of thoughts on an important subject: diversity in audio, and how that is displayed. It is supremely important that we uplift …
Spotlight: The Bright Sessions’ “Rose” Breaks your Heart in Song
Minimal spoilers to follow, in what is something of a review and more of an impressionistic love letter.‘Rose’ was a masterpiece of audio drama that gave me the uplifting and astonished sensation that this is the pinnacle that they’ve been …
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“Hey Alexa, look at the table and pick up the key.”
The United States’ Infinite Dial report of 2018 has been released! Hooray for data on media consumption! It shows a lot of steady growth for podcasting as a common media option for people to listen to in a variety of places. But …
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Untypical Debuts an Adventurous, Risky Soundscape for Audio Drama
The year 2018 is going to be happily saturated with new audio dramas and among them this month will be the pilot for potential audio drama Untypical. A ‘Western-science-fantasy’ about a group of smugglers, the worldbuilding James Vermont has undertaken is …
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Marsfall Audio Drama Returns with a Punch in the Gut
The second half of Season One has begun and it is a heart-wrenching experience. The science-fiction audio drama Marsfall is back from its mid-season break with the punch-in-the-gut that is episode 6, “AN(D)I”, which releases for the general public on February 2. …
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I'm Elena Fernández Collins 