“Waiting for a Window” Under Way

After a period of eerie quiet, FinalRune is kicking back into full swing with the upcoming production, "Waiting for a Window." Auditions are being held this week and production is expected to be in early August -- slating the story for a September debut.

"Waiting for a Window" marks FinalRune's second foray into a piece recorded predominantly in the field, and will be recorded on docks, boats, bars and woods in Southern Maine. While Maine is not quii-ite as tropical as the setting of the story itself, there is certainly enough "wild" life to be found to make convincing audio.

Expect more updates on the drama both here and at Radio Drama Revival.

After over a year of a pay-per-listen download program, FinalRune Productions is now please to announce that all present productions are being offered free through the website (and also through an RSS stream). After much thought and debate, the decision was made that increasing the audience is better than generating extra revenue through MP3 downloads.

To that end, get listening! FinalRune sincerely hopes you'll enjoy the stories available through this site, but hey, if you ARE willing to help support new original audio stories, the donate button is available in full-force (see right) and you'll hear multiple pleas on the new mp3 files.

Thanks for listening, and for your support.

Dark Passenger

Fall of the Hero

Tales from Williamsville

Drizzle

The Blind Man’s Confession

Day of the Dead

Well, things have been quiet since the release of Dark Passenger on Halloween, but we have exciting plans for the New Year, both in terms of audio production and on the site itself. It's always been a goal for finalrune.com to become more of an audio theater hub/knowledge source, and while my show Radio Drama Revival has taken over much of my ambitions to feature and promote exciting new work, I still want to use this site as a place to discuss thoughts and experience with the craft. On that light, soon we will be producing some audio production tutorials and other hands on learning pieces based on our experience in the studio. But of course, our first love is the story, and in early spring expect to hear more about our next release, Waiting for a Window, a tale about a man who ends up on a strange tropical island where it's oddly impossible to escape. Until then, keep on listening and let us know what you think of our shows!

The heavens turned black... Demons crept lose from crypts... and Radio Drama Revival had a hell of a Halloween special! And we debuted the eerie Dark Passenger...

After a bit of a summer hiatus (I hope you missed us!) FinalRune is proud to announce the next installment in our line of audio horror stories: the terrifying tale Dark Passenger!

An expected Halloween debut is providing the impetus to pull together this truly chilling tale of two boys who head to Downeast Maine expecting a fun weekend, but who quickly uncover a world of horror too terrible to imagine.

With a whole new approach to production based on observation at the National Audio Theater Festival, and feedback from audio pros from Roger Gregg to Bill Dufris to Richard Fish, this will be the first FinalRune Production done in stereo sound recorded in the field using a single microphone which all the actors will work around. The anticipated result: blood curdling horror for your ears!

For those of you less keen on the terrible, FinalRune will follow-up in early 2008 with the story Waiting for a Window, about a man who stumbles across a mysterious island while on a journey somewhere else, and finds out leaving is trickier than he imagined...

To accommodate our loyal website fans, the drama will appear here FIRST, available pro bono for some period of time, and then be monetized (while a free, lower-fi version will be available through the Radio Drama Revival! podcast).

Wow! A great time was had at the National Audio Theater Festival in West Plains, Missouri, with a completely blow-by-blow available on Radio Drama Revival! In short, Fred got to meet tons of audio theater's most passionate professionals -- including the legendary Tom Lopez -- as well as lots of young people who are likewise madly in love with this obscure art form.

I'll shortly have the photos up from the whole event, with minimal omissions to protect the innocent. Until then, good listening!

We're very excited to announce our first round of hard-copy compact discs, prepared for us by Short Run Music out of Salt Lake City, Utah. We now sit ogling a stack of beautifully designed copies of Fall of the Hero (coupled with The Blind Man's Confession) and Tales from Williamsville (coupled with Drizzle). In addition to the sharp graphic design, each cd jacket has laughable and awesome shots of the cast, crew, and director making good fun and fools of themselves in the studio. Who knows how long this short run will last, so order your copy today!

FinalRune Productions is proud to be sending founder/writer/director/producer Fred Greenhalgh off to the Deep Woods (err, Missouri) for the one of a kind, truly remarkable, National Audio Theater Festival. With a collection of top-flight instructors, compelling classroom events, and a group of participants from across the country, the Festival looks to be an excellent opportunity to spread the message about FinalRune, network with other amateurs and professionals, and most importantly, learn a lot about the art of audio drama! (we should note that Fred expressed somewhat alarming giddiness when he started to read about Marantz's, Pro Tools, and three-toed box turtles in the pre-Conference information packet).

Headed to Missouri yourself? Drop us a line and let's meet up!

We're proud to announce that our latest production (and the finest to date, if we say so ourselves) is now online for you to download! Check out Fall of the Hero, the tale of a mighty warrior who faces his most dangerous enemy yet: himself.

It was a frenetic, cramped, mac-and-cheese driven five hour session pulled together in the middle of finals week for our cast of USM students, but when the dust settled, Fred left the studio with complete vocal tracks for the upcoming fantasy drama Fall of the Hero.

Now comes the fun part -- post-production! Layering sound effects, score, tweaking lines to perfection, and listening to it over and over again are on the agenda for Fred in the next weeks as he prepares for the May 31st debut on Radio Drama Revival! And, while our opinion is always biased, this looks to be FinalRune's finest yet.

While we're honing the tracks, take a look at some production photos! And be sure to tune in May 31 on WMPG or the podcast thereafter on Radio Drama Revival!

FinalRune Productions is proud to announce a fully-redeveloped website using a Wordpress backend as a powerful content management system (CMS).

The original site, developed in php, was very adequate but Fred decided that the interoperability, ease of assigning categories, hierarchy, and structure made Wordpress a great way to keep the site manageable as FinalRune grows. He also is a little obsessive-compulsive and can't stop working on the site even on beautiful spring days.

A bevy of plug-ins from the Wordpress community brings the site alive, with full widget support, with Zenphoto Gallery thumbnails, an easy contact form, category listing gadget, and more.

As with any major update, there are bound to be a few bugs to squash. Please contact us if you step on any!