Finalrune
FinalRune Productions is an independent audio drama production company based in Alfred, Maine. Their award-winning productions were featured in the Wall Street Journal on February 25, 2010 .
Production Style
FinalRune Productions uses field recording techniques for recording radio drama, a technique taught to director Fred Greenhalgh by his mentor, Roger Gregg (of Crazy Dog Audio Theatre).
On location recording is more like film recording than traditional, studio-based radio drama. Actors, director, and sound recordist go to an acoustical environment similar to that referenced in the play, and record in stereo to a compact flash recording device.
The result is a drama that has natural sound that is laborious and difficult to re-create in post-production. This process also greatly speeds up post-production.
Company history
FinalRune Productions began in 2006 with the production of the story Day of the Dead, by Fred Greenhalgh. Since then, FinalRune has released over a dozen other titles, mostly original work .
In 2010, FinalRune released the pilot of an audio serialization of the novel Open Season by Archer Mayor . This pilot was produced on location and is an example of how dramatized treatments of novels different from a single-VOICED audiobook .
Awards
- 2008 - Gold Ogle Award, "Waiting for a Window"
Press
- February 15, 2010 - "Return With Us to the Thrilling Days Of Yesteryear - Via the Internet." - Wall Street Journal - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704240004575085313479028540.html?mod=rss_Arts_and_Entertainment
- March 10, 2010 - "Making radio waves: Alfred man gets exposure for his audio dramas" - Current Publishing http://www.keepmecurrent.com/arts_and_entertainment/article_5e81e428-2c6a-11df-b424-001cc4c002e0.html
- April 24, 2007 - "The podcast's the thing to revive radio drama,â The Guardian, UK - http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2007/apr/24/thepodcaststhethingtorevi
- July 26, 2009 - "Drama producer at WMPG wins national radio award" - Portland Press Herald