
PodTales 2019: Creating Ethical Adult Audio Drama with Tau Zaman
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10/21/20 • 53 min
Today we present Love Sounds – Creating Ethical Adult Audio Fiction, with Tau Zaman
In this talk Tau examines when and why it's worth incorporating love and eroticism into your audio fiction — in a way that's true to your story, tasteful to your audience, and ethical for your cast and crew. Attendees walked away from this presentation empowered with tools and tips to bring out a whole new pallet of emotions and experiences in their story. Tau covers how to handle sensitive topics, best practices for writing and directing those scenes, and how to apply these techniques to broader storytelling endeavors outside of adult audio fiction.
Transcript
Dropbox folder containing presentation slide deck and practical documents.
This recording was made at PodTales, a festival of audio drama and fiction podcasts, in 2019.
A Production of ThirdSight Media LLC
Today we present Love Sounds – Creating Ethical Adult Audio Fiction, with Tau Zaman
In this talk Tau examines when and why it's worth incorporating love and eroticism into your audio fiction — in a way that's true to your story, tasteful to your audience, and ethical for your cast and crew. Attendees walked away from this presentation empowered with tools and tips to bring out a whole new pallet of emotions and experiences in their story. Tau covers how to handle sensitive topics, best practices for writing and directing those scenes, and how to apply these techniques to broader storytelling endeavors outside of adult audio fiction.
Transcript
Dropbox folder containing presentation slide deck and practical documents.
This recording was made at PodTales, a festival of audio drama and fiction podcasts, in 2019.
A Production of ThirdSight Media LLC
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A gigantic thank you to all the creators who participated in this episode, including:
- Cai Gwilym Pritchard of Chain of Being
- Tal Minear of Sidequesting, What Will be Here, Light Hearts, and Someone Dies in This Elevator
- Ann Slöan of The Carlötta Beautox Chronicles
- Andrea Klassen of Me and AU and Station to Station
- Jeffrey Nils Gardener of Unwell and Hartlife NFP
- Pippin Eira Major of Clockwork Bird
- Chris Middleton of Among the Stars and Bones
- Jordan Stillman of The Ordinary Epic
- Kyle Decker of Quest Friends
- Alex C. Telander of the Ostium Podcast
- David Orión Pena of Dos: After You
- Tamara Kissane of Artist Soapbox, Masterbuilder, and The New Colossus
- JF Dubeau of Achewillow
- Ali Hylton of Dining in the Void
- and Sean Howard / Eli McIllveen of Alba Salix, and the Fable and Folly network.
A full transcript is available online at PodTales.org.
A production of ThirdSight Media LLC
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