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Audio: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol read by the Podcast Community on Facebook

Douglas E. Welch — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:31:17 +0000

The Podcast Community on Facebook has come together this season to record an audio version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This reading is based on an edited version of the story created by Dickens himself for his own live readings.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Listen to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

Our cast includes:

Douglas E. Welch – Career Opportunities Podcast
Michael Falkner – The Weekly Podioplex (part of the Chronic Rift Network)
Bryan Lincoln – Fullcast Podcast
Paul Ellis – It Was A Dark & Stormy Night
James Bennett – All Things Geek
Heidi Jenkins - Castlecast
Paula Berinstein - The Writing Show
Jason James - thenutgallery.com podcast
Michael Lawshe – Eclipse-1 Media
Peter Lythgoe – The Zzipp & Co. Podcast
Browncoat – thenutgallery.com podcast
Megan Enloe – Podcast Community
Rish Outfield – The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine
Hatton Humphrey – East Coast Conservative Podcast
Rosanne Welch – WelchWrite.com
Lauren “Scribe” Harris – Pendragon Variety Podcast
Lauren “Skrybbi” Nicholson – Pendragon Variety Podcast
Raven Wei – Pendragon Variety Podcast
Tim Dodge - Podiobooks ACTS OF DESPERATION and PURGATORY
R.E. Chambliss – Podiobook Dreaming of Deliverance

Produced by Douglas E. Welch and WelchWrite.com

Interstitial Music and Sound Effects provided by Michael Lawshe of Eclipse-1 Media

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LIVE: Prelude to Revolution Part 3 – A July 4th Radio Play – 4pm PDT

Douglas E. Welch — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:59:56 +0000

Sunday, June 29, 2008

EPISODE 3

Prelude to 1776
“Our Lives, our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor”

Time: 06/29/2008 4:00 PM PDT Pacific — 07:00 PM EDT

Live your liberty, don’t lose it in a history book.

We are going live again this weekend!!!

This is Prelude to Revolution – May 1775, to July 4th, 1776 – a live audio production of Eclipse-1 Media.

Listen LIVE via Talkshoe

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New Media Interchange LA Meeting Tomorrow Night – May 28 @ 7pm

Douglas E. Welch — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:51:58 +0000

We are only a day away from our first meeting of the new group, New Media Interchange.

My goal with this group is to bring together traditional and new media artists and technicians to foster the creation of new work.

I see so much wasted effort here in Los Angeles and much great creative work that is simply thrown away if it can’t find a place in the traditional media landscape. I have many friends who work on both sides of the traditional/new media world and would love to see them working together to create something instead of spending their lives pitching ideas with little to show for it.

We now have a new, open, market for our creative work and we should seek to exploit it for our benefit. Whether you are trying to create a promo piece for yourself, a show with online distribution of even an idea for a traditional broadcast television show, new media can provide you tools to get your message out to your audience directly.

Join us both online and in-person at New Media Interchange and let’s all make something special!

Please join me for the first meeting of New Media Interchange on Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7pm

The location is Panera Bread in Studio City

Ventura Boulevard
12131 Ventura Boulevard
Studio City, CA 91604
(818) 762-2226 | phone
(818) 762-5566 | fax

They have several good spaces indoors, a large patio and free Wifi.

Please RSVP for the meeting using Upcoming.org

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New Media Interchange Meetup – Interested?

Douglas E. Welch — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:19:15 +0000

I am looking to launch yet another meetup (Oh Noes!) , but one in an area I don’t think is currently being served in LA. I want to bring together New Media Tech folks like Flash animators, podcasters, videobloggers,etc together with creative and entertainment types like writers, actors and directors so that we can share information on producing New Media.

This idea grows out of my Podcasting and New Media for Writers class that I teach for the UCLA Extension. I have had a really good time with that class as it focuses on “doing.” We talk as much about the creative side of the New Media as we do the tech and everyone has something to bring to the table. At the end of the class, everyone has produced and released the first episode of their production, ready to continue as long as they wish

While there is a social element to all meetups, I want to focus on the Interchange of ideas and sharing real world, useful information that we each need to know. I imagine a “5-minute meeting” where you can ask a pressing question and provide a great resource (web site, book, person, etc) to share with the group. Then we can break up and discuss whatever we wish.

If there is already something like this, please let me know. If you are interesting in the New Media Interchange, contact me directly at douglas@welchwrite.com. If there is enough interest, I will find a venue and start to select a date.

Link: New Media Interchange Google Group Mailing List
Link: New Media Interchange Wiki

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New Project: LA Book Readings on audio and video

Douglas E. Welch — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:44:46 +0000

Last week I wrote an essay on how booksellers and authors could make great use of new media to help get their message out. The first step in the process is to simply capture the content they are already creating each time they host a book reading in their store. In that regard, I am looking for booksellers who might be interested in having me in to record their readings so that I can share them via a dedicated web site.

In that regard, I am looking for booksellers who might be interested in having me in to record their readings so that I can share them via a dedicated web site.

I would start here in Los Angeles, but I can foresee accepting media from all over the country (and the world) into a larger system broken down by location, genre, etc.

So, now I am looking for my first partner in this endeavor. Are you a bookseller who regularly hosts author readings in your store? Are you an author has an upcoming reading in the Los Angeles area? Do you already have audio or video content of a reading that you would like to share? If so, drop me a line in the comments below or send an email to douglas@welchwrite.com.

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Interview: Hayden Black from Goodnight Burbank

Douglas E. Welch — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:26:38 +0000

This interview was recorded as part of my Podcasting and New Media for Writers course currently on-going from the UCLA Extension Writers Program.

Hayden talks about his background in writing and his success in New Media with his shows, Goodnight Burbank and Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary.

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Live Event Project – First Draft to Final Approval

Douglas E. Welch — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:32:20 +0000

Today was a work day at home, splitting the one large recording from last Wednesday’s LIVE event into individual parts, in preparation for building individual podcasts.

Working with my wife, we selected some appropriate music, chose and interesting reader to use as a test and prepared a First Draft podcast to deliver for notes. It is my intention to create a standard intro and outro for these podcasts and then assemble that with the audio from each individual reader.

Imagine my happy dance when the customer came back with NO NOTES on the initial podcast. This doesn’t happen on many projects, regardless of the work being done, so I am feeling very good. I have already completed another of the sessions and will process the remaining 16 this week. We are heading out to a project in Missouri on July 7, so I want to have the project completed and invoice sent before we go.

I will post here as soon as the audio goes live on the client’s site, so you can finally hear what I have been writing about these last few weeks.

As far the future, there is another event by this customer which could use the same treatment we used for this project…recording, editing and podcast production…so I am going to pitch that project to them a little later this summer.

Another short project update…

My other project, Mortgages Made Simple with Rick Gundzik, just released its 3rd episode and a 4th is almost completed. We have settled into a nice rhythm and I am producing the show remotely — recording via Skype or Gizmo as a “double-ender” and assembling in my office here. It seems to be working well and we will probably be scheduling a live show, via Talkshoe.com, sometime in June July

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Episode 2, in the can…

Douglas E. Welch — Thu, 31 May 2007 04:04:54 +0000

Rick Gundzik and I recorded Episode 2 of Mortgages Made Simple today, doing it remotely instead of in-person as we did with show #1. Rick lives about 45 miles away in Orange County, so getting together for every show really isn’t feasible, but through the wonders of Gizmo, we connected up and did a traditional “double-ender”.

Double-ender

This is a method where each participant records their own end of the conversation and then one person sends there file to the other for editing and mix-down. This gives you the highest quality recording, even when you can’t be in the same room. Rick recorded with a headset mic directly into Audacity while I recorded with my traditional podcast rig here in the office. He then bundled up his file as an MP3 and uploaded it to his ftp site. From there, I downloaded the files, laid them into Garageband and started editing. While there weren’t a large number of edits in this piece, I did have to compensate for the lag when using Gizmo. This lag causes odd pauses and such, so I had to adjust each track, Rick’s and mine, a bit to make it sound right.

Putting it together

After that was edits, I added in 2 segments we recorded together last Sunday, added the intro and outro, output as MP3 and uploaded to the site for Rick’s approval. Once he gives me his notes, I will make any changes, then upload the final to be linked in the blog post on Sunday or Monday of next week to release the show.

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Next podcasting project is a go!

Douglas E. Welch — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:27:34 +0000

I just got notice via email that my next podcasting project is a go! I will be recording a live literary event and then packaging that event into individual podcasts to be used as content and promotional material for the client’s web site.

The event occurs the second week of June, so I am already working on logistics, planning, etc. The technology side will be pretty simple, as I am only doing audio for this project, but I am going to have 2 recorders capturing everything as “belt and suspenders” protection to insure, as much as i can, a usable raw audio at the end of the night.

I am looking forward to this project, as it is great chance to stretch my podcasting wings, while also getting paid.

Watch this space for more information as the project develops!

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Incoming Project off the starboard bow!

admin — Thu, 17 May 2007 23:17:25 +0000

So, I happened across the possibility of doing some podcast production for a educational institution with which my wife and I have a relationship. They have an upcoming event in June and I have pitched recording this event in audio, and perhaps, video. As of a few minutes ago, it looks like this first big podcast production project is a tentative yes.

I think that following this project as it matures will be a great start for Careers in Podcasting. I’ll be able to share the “real world” in’s and out’s with you as we move through the process.

Stay tuned!

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