"Look to the North. Keep looking. There's nothing coming from the south."-- Today's proverb, Night Vale Pliot
Welcome to Night Vale is a podcast presented as a radio show for the fictional town of Night Vale. It was created by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor (Who voices Cecil Baldwin), and is inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The podcast consists of "news, announcements and advertisements" from the desert town, located "somewhere in the Southwestern United States". Every episode of the podcast includes a piece of music as its "weather report,", each by a different independently-published artist.
I've decided to examine a podcast rather than a film opening due to the fact that Welcome to Night Vale's sound choices are pretty interesting. Though not directly part to the Post Apocalyptic genre, the dystopian and conspiratorial atmosphere is very inspiring for a world that our group are soon to create for our film opening.
The initial theme is mellow and slightly unnerving - in addition, the themes and ambient sounds used throughout the broadcast to coincide Cecil's smooth narration adds further unease and draws in the listener. Every sentence is abstract and incomplete and deliverance, and questions are never really answered.
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