Explorations in the Dark (How I Told 300 Stories Without A Single Image) by Matt Thompson (Director of Rockethouse Productions) Lecture - Notes

• "It is important that the audience doesn't know what will happen next in a story"
• Don't do absolutely everything yourself; you can learn from how other people do things
• The quality of the voice is of the personality
• "If you don't know about the characters, how do you care about them?"
• Details make stories sound more true
• "Listen to what people are saying and be aware of it"
• "You can tell what people are from their attitude"
• "Visual details work very well on radio, as sound works well on film"
• "The more specific the better"
• Get boring background information over at the beginning
• "Words themselves seem to embody so much emotion just in the way they are spoken"
• You can be vague to suggest the epic
• Prefiguring - plant an idea earlier on
• You can use sound to establish a (type of) person
• You can use music as a breather
• Anthropomorphism can be used
• "Observe the world and notice it's sounds"
• Some people are naturally really good interviewers, good listeners