Blue Sky (Episode 13 Added 04/07/2013)

[Ramune]

Everything you've said adds up. So no worries. I get where you were going and I understand how you wish to give as much creative openness as possible. =]

By the way, have you considered putting these up on YT? Though I understand the desire to just "like telling stories," but stories should have an opportunity to be heard by as many people as possible. If they are on YT, then definitely provide a link. I'm certain many more would prefer to access this from there.

[Tablet]

Episode 4 has now been released! (See first post!)

[Ramune]

Going to be checking this out today and probably will edit some time as well. By the way, have you considered giving this more visibility in other places? Blogs as a sole platform isn't the best way to garner an audience anymore. Blue Sky is a quality, engaging story that would probably have more listeners if you increased its reach, since you do keep up with your deadlines. Just an idea to consider. =]

[Tablet]

Funny you should say that Ramune ( btw you were fantastic in episode 4 ) I do have a youtube account with a) almost 1000 subscribers and b) partnership status... I was going to wait for the entire run to be finished and then over the course of 6 weeks release a show a week maybe every friday on youtube. If you have any other suggestions for publicity I'd gladly continue this conversation through emails. I hope you enjoy the episode!

[zCaptain]

I'm very happy to see more and more original projects showing up. It's inspiring to see it to be honest.

The mixing was pretty solid, the music selection was good as well.

The acting overall was a little dry though. A lot of it felt like people were just reading the script and recording them, there wasn't much emotion when there should have been. For instance when Lady Byron was saying that she'd "Kill them" it should have much more anger and frustration driving it, but it came out on the same level was the lines that were said before it.

Mippa was the stand out in the episode, you could feel the doubt within her and the annoyance with her mother. For the next episode, if you don't do it already in your scripts, I'd add direction so the voice actors should know what their emotion should be. I feel like if the acting and emotion is improved it'll greatly up the quality of the production. Since right now the story, cast and over all feel is there, just the actual acting needs to catch up a bit.

Good job! Keep it up and I'll definitely be looking for the next installment.

As of two days ago I never heard of Audio drama or radio drama, whatever it's called lol.
Anyways last night I listened to the first episode of blue sky, and it was better then I thought it would be. I enjoyed it and I look forward to listening to the rest of the episodes.

I thought the overall quality was pretty good, good story as well, and I liked the cliff hanger at the end of EP1, but like adam said, some of the acting was a little dry, nothing to complain about though, it's not like this is professional project with a large budget, however I do have a thought. I'm new to VAA and I've never voice acted before so I don't know how the producer goes about giving each actor their lines. I'm guessing they get their lines mailed to them individually or do they get to see the whole script? If they get to read the whole script, then the actor gets to see the other characters lines, and has a better knowledge of how exactly he/she is supposed to respond, which would make the flow of dialogue much more fluent. I noticed that sometimes when I character spoke, and then another character responded to what that character spoke it was if they were unaware of what the first characters feelings were, so they responded with an awkward sounding response.

Anyways those are just my own thoughts. Is there anyone here who could tell me how script lines are usually delivered to the actors here on VAA?

Thanks

[Adam]

As of two days ago I never heard of Audio drama or radio drama, whatever it's called lol.
Anyways last night I listened to the first episode of blue sky, and it was better then I thought it would be. I enjoyed it and I look forward to listening to the rest of the episodes.

I thought the overall quality was pretty good, good story as well, and I liked the cliff hanger at the end of EP1, but like adam said, some of the acting was a little dry, nothing to complain about though, it's not like this is professional project with a large budget, however I do have a thought. I'm new to VAA and I've never voice acted before so I don't know how the producer goes about giving each actor their lines. I'm guessing they get their lines mailed to them individually or do they get to see the whole script? If they get to read the whole script, then the actor gets to see the other characters lines, and has a better knowledge of how exactly he/she is supposed to respond, which would make the flow of dialogue much more fluent. I noticed that sometimes when I character spoke, and then another character responded to what that character spoke it was if they were unaware of what the first characters feelings were, so they responded with an awkward sounding response.

Anyways those are just my own thoughts. Is there anyone here who could tell me how script lines are usually delivered to the actors here on VAA?

Thanks

Full script through email.

[TannerHatley]

episode four is so AWESOME!!!

[Tablet]

As of two days ago I never heard of Audio drama or radio drama, whatever it's called lol.
Anyways last night I listened to the first episode of blue sky, and it was better then I thought it would be. I enjoyed it and I look forward to listening to the rest of the episodes.

I thought the overall quality was pretty good, good story as well, and I liked the cliff hanger at the end of EP1, but like adam said, some of the acting was a little dry, nothing to complain about though, it's not like this is professional project with a large budget, however I do have a thought. I'm new to VAA and I've never voice acted before so I don't know how the producer goes about giving each actor their lines. I'm guessing they get their lines mailed to them individually or do they get to see the whole script? If they get to read the whole script, then the actor gets to see the other characters lines, and has a better knowledge of how exactly he/she is supposed to respond, which would make the flow of dialogue much more fluent. I noticed that sometimes when I character spoke, and then another character responded to what that character spoke it was if they were unaware of what the first characters feelings were, so they responded with an awkward sounding response.

Anyways those are just my own thoughts. Is there anyone here who could tell me how script lines are usually delivered to the actors here on VAA?

Thanks

Thanks for taking the time to listen to the first episode, as Adam already said yes I send out full scripts to the actors but especially in the first episode I think everyone including myself was trying to get a feeling for the characters and the direction of the show, I'm sure if you keep listening you'll see marked improvements in all areas as the actors settle in and I become more confident and capable as a mixer.

episode four is so AWESOME!!!

Thanks Tanner! Your character may have been killed off in episode 3 but trust me you haven't been forgotten.

[zCaptain]

Thanks for taking the time to listen to the first episode, as Adam already said yes I send out full scripts to the actors but especially in the first episode I think everyone including myself was trying to get a feeling for the characters and the direction of the show, I'm sure if you keep listening you'll see marked improvements in all areas as the actors settle in and I become more confident and capable as a mixer.

Yeah I just finished episode 3 last night, It was pretty good! Keep up the good work!

[Ramune]

episode four is so AWESOME!!!

I seriously enjoyed your performance as Jack! Just an honorable character & you sold the role to the end. It's a shame he was killed off and Issac replaced him, but I'm happy you are still listening to our performances. =]