Producing Audio Drama Content for an Array of Orchestrated Personal Devices

Francombe J, Woodcock J, Hughes RJ, Hentschel K, Whitmore E, Churnside T. Producing Audio Drama Content for an Array of Orchestrated Personal Devices. In: AES Convention 145. Audio Engineering Society; 2018. Paper 461. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19726

@inproceedings{Francombe2018_19726,
  author = {Francombe, Jon and Woodcock, James and Hughes, Richard J. and Hentschel, Kristian and Whitmore, Eloise and Churnside, Tony},
  title = {{Producing Audio Drama Content for an Array of Orchestrated Personal Devices}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 145},
  note = {Paper 461},
  year = {2018},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19726}
}

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TI  - Producing Audio Drama Content for an Array of Orchestrated Personal Devices
AU  - Francombe, Jon
AU  - Woodcock, James
AU  - Hughes, Richard J.
AU  - Hentschel, Kristian
AU  - Whitmore, Eloise
AU  - Churnside, Tony
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AB  - Personal devices with loudspeakers can be orchestrated to increase immersion from low channel count reproduction systems. A trial production was conducted to investigate the content creation work?ow and delivery mechanism for orchestrated devices. The content (a 13-minute science-?ction drama entitled “The Vostok-K Incident”) included: a stereo bed; elements only replayed from auxiliary devices; and elements that could either be in the stereo bed or replayed from auxiliary devices. A bespoke production environment was established, including plug-ins for authoring the metadata needed to utilize the rendering ruleset. Ambiguity in the reproduction system, coupled with ?exible and complex metadata authoring requirements, made the production challenging and time-consuming. Future work will focus on re?ning the production process and developing delivery tools.
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