This workshop will present all the steps involved in audio preproduction, production and postproduction. Participants will discover the essential role of an audio director: organization, creative contribution, as well as that magic touch that colors a sound with the uniqueness of its orchestra conductor.

Workshop overview:
1. Planning a production schedule, directing styles and script development (placement of audio-images, effects and music);
2. Directing writers, analyzing a text and identifying its positive and negative aspects;
3. Choosing voices according to their color and other identified qualities; directing actors, the communication of information and emotion, voice projection, body movements, and breathing.
4. Technical concerns and teamwork, placing voices within a sound-scape, and note taking during recording.

Line Meloche has worked in the field of communications for thirty years, about twenty of which as a director/coordinator for the radio of Radio-Canada. Specializing in radio-fiction, she has been credited in over a hundred radio productions, a number of which have received national and international prizes. Her reputation has traveled across both European and African borders. Today she is involved primarily in the production of audio books for children sold in Quebec, France and Belgium. She masters all aspects of audio production and has been teaching directing, the principles of narration with a microphone, as well as writing for audio, for over fifteen years. This workshop is for those, professional and amateur, who wish to discover a sound’s the ability to create images, and capture the imagination.