Behold, the riveting adventures of Detective Beringer (Andrew Allingham), his secretary Lola Bolregard (Colleen Trachy) and radio host Ms Mysterious (Jordan Kroll)
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Mysteriously Mysterious Mysteries with Detective Beringer
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A big thanks to the Freesound.org community:
Bristolstories’s u_chimes3 http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=51710
LG’s Office2 http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=14857
Robinhood76 BrassFanfare4 http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=62176
NoiseCollector’s outgoingring http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=3978
Sofie’s violin bit 14 http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=1263
Werra’s Telephone http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=78565
Digitopia’s cdm1_001 http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=76511
Totya’s yeah http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=19446
Noisecollector’s am beep http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=3977
Alextundra’s creepy backgrounds4 http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=60894
Regenpak’s cellfone_ring http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=76511
Leady’s locked door2 http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=12740
Pagancow’s dorm door opening http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=15419
Sirplus’s toiletflush http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=16593
Ddohler’s soft_running2 http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=34255
Various old time radio commercials from Mr. F. Le Mur Collector at archive.org
and this great compilation “Crime Jazz: Music in the First Degree” that I picked up from a library sale 8 years ago.
We wrote our script in bits and pieces on a googledoc and sort of came across our plot by accident during class when we were supposed to be listening to 5 minute segments this past Thursday. A happy accident.
We recorded the voices around the long table in the technologist office with one microphone in the middle. My voice was booming, so I had to lower it and raise the other members’s voices in “post production,” which took forever (8ish hours to put the whole thing together production wise? probably a good estimate.) I think that was really the only major hiccup. Otherwise I’m proud of how it turned out. If there is an award for old time radio dramas in this day and age, I feel like we are in the running.
This will probable be updated with more behind the scenes stuff.
If you have any questions or concerns, comment away below.
This is so great, you’re the best, I can’t believe it took 8 hours to pull it all together. You win all of the awards.
Andrew,
I have been meaning to comment here sooner, but time and the like, you know. Anyway, I was extremely impressed with your project from idea all the way to the final execution. To write terse, comic dialogue for a half hour is not easy, and to add the Noir genre bent to that as well is even more difficult. But I was blown away by how well your writing stood up over the entire episode. What’s more, the way you weaved your commercials and their intertextual comedy throughout the entire show was quite fun. I really think their is a much bigger skit/show going on here that you should explore, it is really remarkable stuff. Kudos.