All six episodes of Season 2 have been released. If you dig it, please like, share or review.
I m pleased to say In the past 12 months we have had just over 3,000 listens. Now that it will be a little bit before we release Season 3 our regular listens will go down. So any help or love you are willing to share would be much appreciated!
This season there will be three cases across six episodes. Our first two cases have been released. Check it out!
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Season 2 Episode 1 of Samwel Sift, Post-Apocalypse Detective will premiere on October 31 2020.
For those who like talking about distribution and marketing plans, keep reading! Here is my plan. Please feel free to share any suggestions or opinions.
Before the first episode I am going to release three interviews where Adrian (the sound engineer) and I interview each other about the creation of Season 1. Think of these interviews as a soft-opening. It will allow me to track and see if I got all the feeds and such things correct. The first season I made several mistakes during distribution, which I won’t bore you with, but it took a while to unwind those issues.
The biggest change is we are changing the name to “Samwel Sift, Post-Apocalypse Detective.” I loved the name for our first season but “Detective Samel Sift’s Loved One Discovery or Recovery Services” proved to be too long and complicated things. At cons someone would be ready to type in the name on their phone and when I told them the name, they would just stare at me.
This season, Episode 1 will premiere on October 31, Halloween! After that we will release an episode every two weeks. With 6 episodes (and a mid-season update) we will be releasing the episodes and interviews from September to January. The first season we released them all at once. That was a mistake, if for no other reason, it makes it more challenging to have the episodes load into people’s devices in the correct order.
In the meantime, any friends, or supporters, if you know someone who might be interested, please send it their way! It would be nice to get a little movement in there, since we have not posted anything in the feed since 2018!
I want to thank all the cast and crew for their lending their talents and energy to our Second Season. I will be making a separate post about each one later, but thank you (Our Cast) Abigail Elfman, Rasheeda Moore, Elliott McDowell, Nick Shaner and Kylene Edison. Thank for Justin Evans for helping us record and working the board. Thank you Adrian Parish for Sound Engineering the season. Thank you, Scott McLaughlin, for the score. Thanks to SpaceBaby for the opening beat.
A huge Thank You to the Knight Foundation for the grant we received as one of 12 Celebrate Charlotte Arts grantees. This grant allowed us to pay all the actors and crew in this season. I think we really raised our game from the first season and this grant is a big reason why.
Thank you Queen City Nerve for including us in your "Cirque du CLT: Best in the Nest 2019" list! We are honored to be included in such esteemed company! For our readers we won "Best Fiction Podcast." You got to scroll down to find us, but take your time doing so and read about a whole bunch of Charlotte artists. There is a ton of musicians in this town I need to check out!
https://qcnerve.com/arts-entertainment-critics-picks-2019/
Super excited that production has started for our second season!
First recording of second season for "Samwel Sift, Zombie Detective" with Kylene Edson Adrian Parrish Abigail Elfman #zombie #noir #podcast #audiodrama — with Kylene Edson and Kevin Sonofpatter at Advent Coworking.
I am not so good about posting on here or the social medias. I would rather my time be spent on writing and getting stuff done!
So you, my loyal fans and countrymen, I owe you an update.
The biggest news is we have started pre-production for the Second Season of Samwel Sift. The first table read of the second season was last night and it went great. The plan is to have 10 episodes. Unlike, the first season, the whole season will not be one Case. In the second season we will have 4 stand-alone (but interrelated) cases. The goal for the second season is to really explore the Universe and build a cast.
I think I might move a little slower than many audio drama’s. I would like to pretend that is because I care about quality and not that I work slow. We will be recording in November to March and releasing our first episode in February of 2020. Or at least, that is the plan!
In other news, we got a $5,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to do the second season. This is awesome, and will allow us to pay our actors $2,500 and our sound enginners $2,500.
We also got accepted into the Austin Film Festival Audio Drama as a “second rounder.” This means we get the general notes they made as they debated us. My guess is the first person who read our script, pass it on to the second round. Then in the second round, the vote on what they like. I am supposed to get notes from this second discussion, which I think will be great. Plus I have never been to Austin.
I should be happy somebody wrote this on the form letter, right?
I am very happy with JP Belmont’s work on our T-Shirt Design. Here is the front!
I am getting ready for a trip to the Austin Film Festival. They have a sub-audio-drama subtract. I think a One Page Treatment, might be good to have. Here is my rough draft.
Detective Samwel Sift’s Loved One Discovery or Recovery Services
10/18/2019 Treatment
Written by Kevin Patterson
sonofpatter@gmail.com or stationaryhoboproductions.com
Logline
Shamus Samwel Sift runs a sidestepping Detective Agency in the Post-Zombie Apocalypse.
Characters
Samwel Sift - A couple of years after The Fall, Sift started a Detective Agency for people who wanted to know what had happened to their Loved Ones.
Dr. CeCe Daniels - A professor of Biology before the Fall, she is now dedicated to finding the elusive “Cure.”
Frank McCormick - A wise-cracking devil-may-care Raider & Trader who uses Hickory N.C.’s old furniture warehouses and factories as his base of operations.
Jane Parker - The Main Raider & Trader that operates outside of the CLT Free Zone. She is a very straight shooter.
Ralph – A happily-married guard usually working at The Authority’s intake station.
Doris – The tough-ass owner of “Doris’s,” a popular watering hole for Raiders & Traders or anyone in need of shady deals.
Alex – Lone Hermit who lives in an abandoned public library. She (or He) trades in information.
Chompers- One of the main names for a Zombie.
Synopsis for Season 1: The Case for the Cure
Shamus Samwel Sift gets a hired for a fishy case by Jane Parker. Sift is to track and spy on her competitor Frank McCormick for two weeks or as long as he can go in “The Outback.” She offers payment of 10,000 cans of Tuna. Dr. CeCe Daniels, convinces Sift at Doris’s to let her join him. She thinks McCormick has found a cure. Sift doubts it. They find McCormick and watch him where they see a group of Chompers acting weird in McCormick’s compound. A couple of days later they see the same person as a normal functioning human. Daniels, convinced McCormick has a cure, decides to walk straight at the gates, with or without Sift. Sift chases her. After being taken to McCormick, they learn that McCormick has not discovered a cure. If you snort their oven-baked brains along with his secret herbs and spices you get something like herorin, which makes you act like a Chomper during the high.
This was Released in Nov 2018 in audio theatre podcast format in 4 episodes all around 15 minutes. We would love someone to pay us for a second season, in which they would get rights for all other forms of media.
Our first fan art, by our long time old friend and colleague, Tommy Cannon. Thank you Tommy,!
I made it back to beautiful downtown Phoenix in February. While there I got some updates versions on the pages of our website’s graphic illustrator, Ernesto Moncada. I love that man, and love what he is doing. #zombie #noir #postapocalyptic #audiodrama #podcast #machete #coolasacucumber
Photo from the first workshop for a Season 2 script. Season 1 took 5 rewrites so it will be a bit! Thanks Keema Mingo for running such a great room. Part of Charlotte Film Community, they meet every third Wednesday. #writing #cltiscreative #podcast #Charlotte #zombie #clt
We’re pretty excited about this write up we got in Queen City Nerve!!! If you are in Charlotte, NC pick up a copy from a nearby stand. Thank you Queen CIty Nerve!
This is who I am. I also wrote, directed and produced the show. Ain’t I handsome?
-Kevin Patterson
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you to one of the most talented people I know, Adrian Parrish. He is my closest collaborator in this (and many recent projects.) Adrian did the audio engineering of the podcast. This is my favorite shot I ever took of him on the multiple projects we ever worked on. Thank you Adrian for all the work and the layering of all that background sound.
-Kevin Patterson
I met Marlene at a Charlotte Based script writing workshop. The moment she opened her mouth I knew I wanted her to be Doris! Marlene’s accent is the best southern accent ever!
Thank you Marlene!
Exoplanetary is a great Sci-Fi adventure story. With many Sci-Fi podcasts out there, Exoplanetary stands out!
It took me about 3 or 4 episodes to realize what they were doing. At first, I thought it was just the start of a bunch of different tales. Once I figured out we were returning to all of the characters, I was in! I thought it great how they were able to create so many different worlds, each story complimenting the other stories yet each with a distinct style. With several planets to play with, the writer really showed a wide-ranging imagination. Well done!
Very fun! Great work on the sound! I been trying to figure out how to do fight scenes for a project and this series gave great examples. They did a wonderful job of building ambiance sound into so many episodes. I look forward to more in the future!
I was extremely impressed with this series. I am amazed the host/producer was able to get permission at the last minute. I don’t know how much of footage she got and what the process was to whittle it down but well done! I love listening to Science podcasts to give me ideas of sci-fi scripts and this podcast provides so much. This examination into what makes us human is fantastic.
Who doesn’t like a Fast-talking Mad Scientist in Space? Labeled in iTunes as comedy, but really should be “comedic sci-fi.” Add more categories iTunes!
The Strange Case of Starship Iris
What a fun time! I love how the use of pronoun’s is written into the script as a thought-out plot point with a nice comedic touch. It is it easy for the audience to like the characters. Wonderful work building a universe!
Sometimes I can get lost in the plot in audio theatre, because, you know, no visuals. But this podcast was easy to follow without being boring or simplistic. No spoilers, but I like how some things in early episodes turn out important later.
The original podcast that brought me into the possibility of audio theatre. Thank you, Night Vale! May many moons bleed for you!
Tom Bennett knows acting. Tom has been a theater writer, director and actor for many years. I knew Tom for a Charlotte based script writers workshop. We also did a film together called “The Facts of Life” that he wrote and directed. I always enjoyed it when Tom reads at the script writers workshop so I knew I wanted him to be a character in our podcast!
Thanks Tom!
-Kevin Patterson
Steve Nazarian plays Frank McCormick.
Steve was my go-to-first-person to ask to play the role of Frank McCormick, a devil-may-care Raider & Trader. I know Steve well from the Charlotte Storytellers group.
Steve knows how to fill out a character. A while back, Steve was in a live audio play done by Cartage Theatre. That night they did 4 short plays. Steve had to creep the hell out of the audience with one character and then very quickly make the audience welcome a lovable fool of a new character.
I knew Steve would nail Frank McCormick, and he did. The only problem is you have to wait until Episode 4 to hear him!
Steve is a writer of many years. Some of his thoughts are collected at his blog, the Penny Collector.
This is, maybe, not the best shot to show Steve’s face. But it is my favorite of him. It’s shot during a filming of “Grace in Training.” Steve is the one covering his hands with his face.
-Kevin Patterson
Here is another photo so you can see his beautiful face!
Belinda is a bad ass. She is the perfect Jane Parker. I knew her from Charlotte storytelling when she told a story about her banker days from early in her career. If you had been there that night you would know why I cast her as Jane Parker.
-Kevin Patterson
We had 4 microphones and had 6 hours to record 3 episodes. I needed someone who could hit three different voices.
I knew Kylene Edson from a series of Cartage Theater live audio plays. From those shows I knew Kylene can swing her voice. I am very happy I cast her. I loved how she played Alex, the Librarian, in Episode 2.
She also knows her way around a room filled with musical instruments. For her day job, she runs the workshops and tutoring schedule for people learning multiple different forms of creative energy. Kylene is a wonderful person to have on a production. She is very good at reading the room.
Thank you Kylene!
-Kevin Patterson
