One of the subjects podcasters and podcast critics constantly circle back to is the status of podcasting as a very slow-growing medium, even though it’s only slightly more than a decade old as a medium. Tied into this problem of …
Category: Casting Light Essays
Genre Discussion: Engaging with dystopian and light-hearted fictions
To start this off with an understatement, we’re living — all of us, worldwide — in some particularly turbulent times in all spheres of life: socially, politically, economically, and environmentally. In 2017, there were a lot of articles about the rise of dystopian fiction, mostly focused on …
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What kinds of support can niche communities build?
With the upcoming Podcast Movement convention, where we’ll see not only a fiction in podcasting panel but an article in the booklet written by yours truly, it’s a good time to reflect on the podcasting community and its various niches, …
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Genre Discussion: The necessity of subversion in true crime parody
A warning before we start: I’m talking about true crime parodies, and violence against women and minority communities. Nothing graphic. Ever since A Very Fatal Murder made waves in headlines, the parodies of the true crime genre are coming in droves, having …
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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 …
