Creating Audio Fiction: From Idea to Script
The importance of good beginnings and endings
A course by Emma Mussoll , Creative Writer
About the video: The importance of good beginnings and endings
Overview
“To make sure we hook the listener from minute one, I'll dedicate this lesson to reviewing the first scene. But having a shocking beginning is not enough, we need the end to be so too so that they continue to listen to us. Hence the importance of choosing a good cliffhanger at the end of each episode.”
In this video lesson Emma Mussoll addresses the topic: The importance of good beginnings and endings, 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
“The importance of good beginnings and endings In this lesson we are going to talk about beginnings and endings, The importance of starting a story well that hooks the listener from the beginning, but that it also hooks you at the end because we want you to continue listening to us. As it is a new format, they are going to give us little chance, they will give us at least a minute or two to see if it hooks them or not, if they are interested or not, so starting from the top I think it is essential and it is one of the subjects that obsesses me a lot at the hour of writing. I'm going back to ...”
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Course summary for: Creating Audio Fiction: From Idea to Script
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Category
Music & Audio, Writing -
Areas
Audio, Communication, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Podcasting, Script
Emma Mussoll
A course by Emma Mussoll
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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