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EDICT_ZERO

                                                  September 21, 2013
Weirdly enough, I just took another
quick look at the world of amateur (?)
audio drama in the Internet Archive,               IS_OLD_AGAIN
and turned up another exception to my
initial impression that It's All Crap:

   http://archive.org/details/EdictZeroFiles

"Edict Zero" by "Slipgate Nine Entertainment"
is eminently listenable, with some definite
moments to it.  It has some problems, but
arguably they're not terribly big problems.

   What you get: a multiplicity of distinct
   voices and audio textures, acting out a story
   where we're shown a mysterious figure who
   blows up some bad guys with a super-bomb of
   mysterious character, and we then immediately
   switch to a tale inter-departmental rivalry of
   government agents investigating the explosion.


   Problems:

   The government agents scenario is such
   an obvious "X-Files" rip off it isn't
   funny-- and I've only seen a few
   episodes of that myself.

   They could use a little more discipline
   in the pacing.  They're very proud of
   their effects, and tend to let them run      It's one of the things
   just a little long.                          that was impressive about
                                                the first Star Wars: they
      When the production engineer              would work out an impressive
      wants to pan crowd noises                 image and then just flash
      from left to right to suggest             it on the screen.
      walking by the crowd, this is
      both a (1) welcome sign of
      attention to craft (2) a clue
      that someone else needs to
      intervene to restrain the engineer.




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