Broadcasting from the decks of the HMS Rhapsody, this is Airship Audio with the official guidelines for writing and submitting your scripts.
1. Format
1.1. Submitted works must have a title page formatted with the Name of the piece, the authors name, and the date they submitted it:
Name of Script
Author's Name
Date
1.2. Must be in size 12 font, double spaced, Times New Roman.
1.3. Every page must have a Header with the name of the piece, and page # of # of pages.
1.4. All Pieces are to be submitted to AirshipAudio@Gmail.com With a subject line that looks like this: SCRIPT - Script Name – Authors Name.
2. Script Lengths
2.1. Scripts should have a run time of no more then 30minutes.
2.2. If there is an exceptional script that does exceed the 30 minutes, Special exception may be given allowing for the script to be performed over 2 episodes.
3. Setting
3.1. Your story must be set in the Victorian Era (1837-1901)
3.2. It is not required for events to be set within the British Empire
4. Characters
4.1. Characters can be of any color, race, skin, creed, or sexual orientation
4.2. All Characters must be Human
4.3.Characters must be original content, as Airship Audio does not hold the right to any published work.
4.3.1. If a Writer wishes to use a character that has been featured on a previous episode of Airship Audio, Written consent from the original author is required. Airship Audio does not own the rights to the intellectual property we feature on our podcast.
4.4. Queen Victoria may not make a physical appearance in the script. However she may be mentioned, and or have indirect communication with (Letter, messenger, etc…)
5. Technology
5.1. Main source of power for all technology should be steam
5.2. There is no time travel
5.3. There is no Magic
5.4. No futuristic technology is to be featured (Ray guns, spaceships, computers, Etc…)
5.5. Transportation
5.5.1. Airships are the only form of air travel
5.5.2. Steam powered ships are functional for water travel
5.5.3. Carriage and Train are main source of land transport
6. Profanity & Sexual Content
6.1. Profanity should be kept to a minimum, and If it is required, we would prefer a more classy type of profanity Ex: Bullocks, Bloody hell, You little swine, Damn you, Damnation, Blast it all to hell, etc…
6.2. No Explicit Sexual content will be permitted
7. Intellectual property, and permissions
7.1. Any content that is submitted is the intellectual property of the original author. Airship Audio claims no ownership of this content.
7.2. Unless stated otherwise by the author on submission, Airship audio will assume that they have the right to produce audio content using the written content provided by the author.
7.2.1. If an authors work is selected, Airship Audio will contact the author and confirm that they have permission to produce the work before auditions begin
7.3. Airship Audio will assume that any content submitted to them by an author that has not been converted into a script, can be converted into script form.
7.3.1. Airship Audio will send a version of the converted content to the Author to confirm that they may use it to produce audio content.
7.3.2. If content is not submitted in script form, during the introduction the by line will be shared as such:
Script Name
By: Authors Name
Converted to Audio By: Converters name
Produced By: Airship Audio
7.4. At any time before the start of production, an author can withdraw their content. However once production has commenced, it is assumed that enough time has been given to the author to withdraw their content, and Airship Audio will assume that enough warning had been given, and that they still have permission.
7.5. No copies of the script will be sent to any individual that is not an actor, or a member of airship audio, however we have no control over who downloads the audio content.
We are now accepting any submissions, and the final submission date to have your work up for this seasons selection, is March 15th. Any submissions after this point will still be accepted, however they will be up for the next season.
If you have any questions or concerns about the guidelines listed above, please feel free to email us at AirshipAudio@Gmail.com and we will be happy to reply to them.
We look forward to your submissions and working with this fantastic community,
Yours truly,
Airship Audio Production team
Thank you for the information. I'll see what I can do about fitting some more writing into my schedule. (With NaNoWriMo on top of school, I'm pretty swamped as it is.)
ReplyDeleteAlex we appreciate you taking the time to even consider it. Both of the producers for Airship Audio are in fact university students, and so we understand the amount of time that it takes up. We also recognise NaNoWriMo, which is one of the reasons we announced this project so early before starting production, as well as setting such a late final submission date.
ReplyDeleteWe hope to hear from you again,
yours truly,
Airship Audio
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ReplyDeletei thought that radio acting died a long time ago but im glad to see some people keeping alive. but as a writer it would be help full to hear some radio acting so i know how to write the script. do you know where i can find any radio acting?
ReplyDeleteThis is a great project. When I have more time, perhaps I will submit. Are you looking for actors as well?
ReplyDeleteI think your rules might need to be revamped for a Steampunk audience. Are you aware that you would have rejected most of what Jules Verne wrote? Most Steampunk folk have some kind of raygun on their person. You will probably turn on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle crowd, but not me... Curiouser and curiouser !
ReplyDelete@Aj, We will look up a few different Audio Dramas for you to look at, and post them here.
ReplyDelete@Jane, We will be looking for actors later in the year, most likely around April.
@Halzark, Our Main reason for the removal of devices such as ray guns, is that they seemed unnecessary and too advanced for something that would be steam powered. A revamp of certain rules may occur if enough people voice a concern about an individual point.