Another Weekly Reflection Post

As I said in my last post, I’d be keeping you updated on what I’m doing in my podcast right now. If you haven’t read them, basically we had to do an episode on the greatest Canadian, in the context of our podcast. I ended up doing James Cameron, who directed The Terminator and lots of other films Warhammer take inspiration from. But all the research I did was from quite a while ago, and I want to talk about what I’m doing right now, which is the script. I have had some experience with scripts before, as I have been doing acting for a few years now, but our podcast scripts were a lot different from what I was used to.

For starters, it is only us talking, with the exception of interviews, so when we wrote it we were mostly thinking about ourselves. This made it interesting because we could either write exactly what we wanted to say, or just our main points and then improvise a little. I went with being specific, because I think it’s easier when you don’t have to remember certain things. Another new thing in the scripts were transitions and cues. Unlike acting scripts, there are no notes on physical motions, but instead we had to write where the transitions and cues are in our script. We also had to make spaces for our interviews, and mark out words we wanted to emphasize. It was definitely different, but I learned some new script writing techniques, and it was interesting to see how a podcast script is different from a film one. That’s about it for this blog post, but make sure to come back next week for more updates on the project.