Call out! Sound Designer / Engineer for our youth grows in a wasteland

We’re looking for a Sound Designer / Engineer to help us create our new small-scale audio project, our youth grows in a wasteland.

The role:

  • Work with our Director and performers to record 3 x 5-10 min audio pieces. Two will be dramatised, performed by a single actor each, and the third will be a verbatim piece by a local young person

  • We would like the pieces to be recorded on-site, outdoors in Hanley Park.

  • Edit the pieces including the composition to be provided by our Composer.

  • Attend some online rehearsals

  • Have experience and capability to record online if unable to record on-site.

  • Provide all own equipment and software.

About the project:

Our youth grows in a wasteland is a small-scale audio project, featuring three short (5-10 mins) audio dramas (monologues) inspired by young people’s experiences in outdoor spaces in Stoke-on-Trent. The pieces will be written by Potboiler in response to conversations with young people. They will be set in Hanley Park and audiences will be encouraged to listen to them onsite from September 2020. Two will be fictionalised and performed by young actors, the third will be a verbatim piece by a local young person.

Timeframe:

  • Apply by Sunday 9 August

  • Successful applicant notified by Wednesday 12 August

  • Online rehearsal and then 1 day (estimated) recording outdoors, onsite in Hanley Park w/c 24 August (date tbc). We would need you to be as flexible as possible during this week.

  • Editing the tracks in collaboration with our Director and Composer w/c 31 August

  • Final tracks provided to Potboiler by 5 September

Recording will be need to be delivered safely and in compliance with social distancing requirements.

Fee:

In line with our company rate the total fee will be £375 inclusive of expenses. The working time we estimate will be approx. 2.5 days.

We will need you to provide your own recording and editing equipment and software.

Apply:

Please submit the following via email to potboilertheatre@gmail.com with "“Wasteland Sound” in the subject heading. Please submit by end of play on Sunday 9 August:

  • CV and links to website and any testimonials

  • Examples of previous audio work

  • Contact details

  • A few words on why you are interested in working on the project

Please get in touch with any queries in the meantime.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Kat B and Kat H

Kat Hughes