Creating Audio Fiction: From Idea to Script

Train the ear

A course by Emma Mussoll , Creative Writer

Creative Writer. Barcelona, Spain.
Joined March 2016
100% positive reviews (36)
1,771 students
Audio: Spanish
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About the video: Train the ear

Overview

“Before starting to develop your first fiction, it is essential to train your ear. In this lesson I will teach you a series of active listening exercises to pay attention to the entire sound universe that surrounds you. Then you can detail each effect in the script as realistically as possible.”

In this video lesson Emma Mussoll addresses the topic: Train the ear, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Audio Fiction: From Idea to Script. Learn the art of storytelling in audio format, from the initial idea to the finished script .

Partial transcription of the video

“train the ear In this lesson we are going to train the ear because to write a sound fiction the important thing is to learn to listen, to listen to the sounds that surround us. But also what we imagine, because when we are writing we are imagining a scene, but we cannot just narrate what happens, but also the sounds what is happening around us Then you can put it into the script. So we have to pay attention to all those sounds, noises, effects, but also to how our characters speak, if they have some type of tic, if they use a specific jargon, a specific type of language, also the tone of vo...”

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Course summary for: Creating Audio Fiction: From Idea to Script

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (36)
  • 1771 students
  • 5 units
  • 18 lessons (3h 2m)
  • 17 downloads
  • Category

    Music & Audio, Writing
  • Areas

    Audio, Communication, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Podcasting, Script

Emma Mussoll

Emma Mussoll
A course by Emma Mussoll

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Emma Mussoll is a creative writer with more than seven years of experience producing audio stories, bringing them to life with engaging dialogue and descriptive sounds, from the mundane to explosions and chase scenes.

Over the years, she's specialized in audio fiction and has written Ladrones de memoria, which already has two seasons, Operación Reset for Storytel, and La vecina indiscreta, Espero tu email, and Ni en tu casa, ni en la mía for Podimo. She is also the creator and producer of Mai no ho sabreu, a fiction podcast supported by the Catalan Institute of Culture. In addition to her own projects, she collaborates with commercial brands and publishers, big and small alike.


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Creating Audio Fiction: From Idea to Script. Music, Audio, and Writing course by Emma Mussoll

Creating Audio Fiction: From Idea to Script

A course by Emma Mussoll
Creative Writer. Barcelona, Spain.
Joined March 2016
  • 100% positive reviews (36)
  • 1,771 students