304 - TEAM VICTORIOCITY on creating podcasts, kids and books! Jen Sugden / Chris Sugden
02/01/25 • 59 min
The very brilliant JEN & CHRIS - Team Victoriocity - are here to talk making one of the very best comedies EVER EVER MADE - Honestly - dive in and you will fund the best EXACT amount of joy needed to escape the realities of this crazy life we lead. It's witty, clever and character fuelled and has a cracking cast and superb quality production values - and I feel it all starts with amazing writing!
Jen and Chris Sugden are hugely talented writers, performers and general al round awesome folks, and herein describe and explore aspects of making their comedy Victoriocity.
We explore
- Top tips - writing processes for audio drama
- Top tips - Creating a novel
- Collaboration
- Why audio is a superb storytelling medium
- Why a narrator?
- Why do you have to be ruthless?
- Importance of improvisation for developing characters
- Stakes and arcs
- Brilliant cast and crew members
Thanks to the truly wonderful Chris and Jen for sharing their wonderful experience and tips for you to level up your creative skills too!
Thanks for listening and PLEASE DO SHARE, RATE AND REVIEW THIS NEW SEASON -would be super to have some fun words of wisdom to share.
Sarah🌞
Links to their works
Buy the book - HIGH VAULTAGE - here!
Any sound effects were taken from the wonderful FREESOUND.ORG
Our DISCOVERABILITY 5 MINS was with the super amazing CRYSTAL STORM of talesoftheforgotten.com
And our trailer at the end was for CIRCE podcast - Season 2 coming soon!
Links to Sarah’s socials
The very brilliant JEN & CHRIS - Team Victoriocity - are here to talk making one of the very best comedies EVER EVER MADE - Honestly - dive in and you will fund the best EXACT amount of joy needed to escape the realities of this crazy life we lead. It's witty, clever and character fuelled and has a cracking cast and superb quality production values - and I feel it all starts with amazing writing!
Jen and Chris Sugden are hugely talented writers, performers and general al round awesome folks, and herein describe and explore aspects of making their comedy Victoriocity.
We explore
- Top tips - writing processes for audio drama
- Top tips - Creating a novel
- Collaboration
- Why audio is a superb storytelling medium
- Why a narrator?
- Why do you have to be ruthless?
- Importance of improvisation for developing characters
- Stakes and arcs
- Brilliant cast and crew members
Thanks to the truly wonderful Chris and Jen for sharing their wonderful experience and tips for you to level up your creative skills too!
Thanks for listening and PLEASE DO SHARE, RATE AND REVIEW THIS NEW SEASON -would be super to have some fun words of wisdom to share.
Sarah🌞
Links to their works
Buy the book - HIGH VAULTAGE - here!
Any sound effects were taken from the wonderful FREESOUND.ORG
Our DISCOVERABILITY 5 MINS was with the super amazing CRYSTAL STORM of talesoftheforgotten.com
And our trailer at the end was for CIRCE podcast - Season 2 coming soon!
Links to Sarah’s socials
Previous Episode
303 - LONGCAT MEDIA talk all things horror and comedy creation - Lindsay Sharman and Laurence Owen!
Welcome to EPISODE 303 of this joyous chatty pod on all aspects of audio drama creation!
This week - the wonderful and riDICulously talented LINDSAY SHARMAN
&
LAURENCE OWEN
Talk all things LONG CAT PRODUCTIONS with emphasis on exploring GHOSTED! Their true moody, atmospheric horror podcast, how MAGENTA & BERNARD came about, and why they are so fun as comedy inspiration, and being a part of the brilliant FABLE AND FOLLY NETWORK.
They're honestly legends of the audio drama space and I FOR ONE CANNOT WAIT to see / hear / play / experience what they come up with next!
Please do hire Laurence for all your music and sound design character grooviness needs and pay Lindsay handsomely to write and star in more amazing groovy things!
Also not mentioned here is the fact that they are making a MOCKERY MANOR GAME! YES! It had a kickstarter - find more details to back it here!
Our guest show today on the DISCOVERABILITY part of the pod is the wonderous show fronted by SIR ROBERT OF CRIGHTON - Beyond Shakespeare - which you can find...here!
The trailer at the end of the show is for TEN APOCALYPSES from CITEOF PODS - I met and enjoyed the fine company of Sean - a creator of this super show, on the inaugural INCOGNITO 42 WRITER RETREAT that me and Shannon created for last year and are currently planning the next! Ping me on [email protected] to be first to know when and where to be!
Please do hunt it down on the link above and enjoy a listen...
Please also feel free to support Laurence and Lindsay on their KO-FI ACCOUNT -linked below
Ah
Gwan!
Thank you so so much for listening = please do share it to your socials to help inspire other creatives!
HAPPYYY CREATING YA LEDGE
NOW, hopefully inspired by Lindsay and Laurence today, please do...
GO
MAKE
THE THING!
Sarah x
Links to LINDSAY & LAURENCE’S WORKS & BEYOND
KO-FI.COM_LONGCATMEDIA - Support them!
UVI WALKER - recommended by Laurence
Laurence’s telephone mic link! Doit!
Have a listen to GEEZER BIRD - Sarah Produced this for WIRELESS THEATRE and used Laurence’s phone mics for audio recording fun!
Check out this website for links to:>>>
Ballad of Anne and Mary - Piratical musical!
Mockery Manor - Horror Comedy
Magenta Presents - Horror Anthology inc GHOSTED
Sonos Mystica
WHAM - We Have A Movie!
And more
Links to Sarah’s socials
‘We just follow our curiosity’ - Lindsay Sharman
Oh yeah, and do watch Ghost Shark, it’s truly ridiculous funnnn!
Next Episode
305 - WASTELAND PRODUCTION DIARY - Part One - Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory
Hello you hard working, brilliant creatives you! Here's a supercharged INDIE AF fun ep...
>>>... a highly useful chat with EMILY INKPEN and CHRIS GREGORY of ALT STORIES about the first part of their production process from the moment WASTELAND was written to casting and table read. There are 2 more eps in this gentle dive into how their Spinoff sci fi mech tech was developed, cast, recorded, edited and hyped!
Please do give them a listen and, well hey, a review for WASTELAND would be lovely!
We talk all things
* Casting - decision making
* Casting character prep materials
*Casting - audition materials
*Collaboration
and
so
much
more
*****
ENJOY our Discoverability section of the pod which looks at finding out about Sean Mulligan'sTHIS HOUSE WILL DEVOUR YOU
And the trailer at the end is for MERONA GRANT AND THE LOST TOMB OF GOLGOTHA!
Hunt it! Enjoyyy
Thanks for listening and, if you like this show and find it useful, or just fun, or it really helps you in your creative endeavours, we'd love a review. I know we are a niche pod but some folks still haven' tfound it yet, and sharing some love for the interviews would be much appreciated
HEARTY THANKS AND HAPPY CREATING!
Sarah🌞
Chris and Emily links / WASTELAND
WASTELAND POD - LISTEN HERE
Sarah Links of audio joy
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