Month June 2016
Chris Sykes, BBC Newcastle – How Will Buckley Started My Radio Career
Chris Sykes, now Broadcast Assistant with BBC Newcastle, found his way into the radio station via work experience. Here’s why he impressed the BBC, and why they wanted to keep him around:
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Season 2, 2 – When Art Meets Business
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Because sometimes, when life gives you lemons, creative people start companies.
Click here to listen to Courtney Pine on 99% Perspiration
“I just wanted to play the saxophone, I just wanted to make music. And then that’s opened doors to other things, like going to see the queen…
“The reason why I’m still insane is because I realise that jazz music is supposed to be about new challenges. Jazz music is creativity.”
Internationally renowned jazz musician, and founder of Creative People Music. Possibly the most impassioned person we’ve ever met. This episode is full of his gorgeous music.
Click here to listen to Anne Curtis on 99% Perspiration
“People have a perception of you as an artist being fluffy-headed, a bit weird and a bit off the wall. It’s as if you can’t be an artist and be a very good project manager, or a very good business person.
“I think I can do all of those things, and I apply my creative ability to every one of those things.”
Artist, illustrator, and Founder and Creative Director of Shoo Fly Publishing. And not afraid to tell it like it is. Trust us.
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And, as always,
Stay productive, stay awesome!
Jay Sykes
Executive Producer, 99% Perspiration
R. Branding Photoshop Tutorial – How to Create a Spotify Duotone Effect & Use Blend If
Hello, Creatives! If you’re like me, you’re the kind of person who wants to learn everything. I may specialise in audio, but it’s so handy to get your head around visual software too! But, unless you’ve been using Photoshop a while, you won’t know your way around the branding software. R.Branding are here to make your life easier, with their series of Adobe Photoshop tutorials.
Ryan Booth from R. Branding (who’ll be featured in an upcoming episode of the 99% Perspiration podcast) demonstrates exactly how Spotify brands their images, artwork, and adverts, using a similar duotone technique.
Learn how to stylise your images using the “Blend If” tool in Photoshop; enhance shadows and highlights, giving more depth to your subject / scene.
And, as always,
Stay productive, stay awesome!
Jay Sykes
Executive Producer, 99% Perspiration
ArtyParti – Putting Southwick on the Map, Thinking Digital Arts & Free Pinhole Photography
Hello, Creatives! One of my side projects alongside running 99% Perspiration is a weekly radio programme called ArtyParti. We invite guests to chat about artistic & cultural events in the North East of the UK.
Here’s the latest, episode 39;
How to Create an Audio Drama Series on Little-to-No-Budget
by Pete Lutz
So you say you’re a creative type who has always wanted to put together some kind of artistic endeavour that will enthral the masses and make you big bucks at the same time? Well, that’s really quite wonderful, but I’m sorry, you’re reading the wrong article. No, this is for somebody who is desperate to provide a bit of entertainment to anyone who may listen, and to create that entertainment on an absolutely near-invisible shoestring budget.
Actually, this is more of a story about how I did it, and there are some steps here that I don’t recommend for everybody, but you should still know everything. Well, almost everything. I won’t bore you with all the sleepless nights I spent weeping over it like it was my own child. Oh. Looks like I just did. So, why not read on?
1. COME UP WITH A WONDERFUL IDEA.
Audio dramas are stories that are told so well that the listener can see it like a movie in his mind. It’s your job to come up with that story. You can do what I did, which is create an anthology series called Pulp-Pourri Theatre (each episode a standalone story with a beginning, middle and end), or you can go the way of a serial and have several episodes with a longer, drawn-out story. The choice is yours, and you should go ahead and write the outline for your series. No, go ahead. I’ll wait right here until you’re done. Got any magazines?
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