Pendant Productions
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Pendant Productions is an independent production group that creates audio serials and radio dramas. Pendant creates fan shows based on comic book and movie characters, and also content with original characters. Pendant is part of a growing online community of creators of original and fanfiction audio.
Pendant consists of dozens of writers, voice actors, editors and directors that produce six on-going monthly fan shows, and six original monthly shows.
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The production company holds open auditions for voice actors to fill recurring roles and one-off characters on its own website and on other voice acting affiliated websites. Actors record their audition lines on personal computers and e-mail them to directors, who cast the roles. Once a cast is assembled, the actors are given scripts to record all of their lines, and send them to the director. The director edits the lines together according to the script, though directors have leeway to cut lines that disturb the flow of a scene. Directors also insert all the sounds effects and music, before sending the audio file to the executive producer.
[edit] History
Pendant was created by Jeffrey Bridges, who continues to be the executive producer on all shows. The company got its start in radio dramas with a "Star Trek" fan show, but the launch was delayed until March 2006. Pendant's longest-running, uninterrupted show is "Superman: The Last Son of Krypton," based on DC comics characters, launched in January 2005. It has spun off three other shows: "Wonder Woman," "Batman" and "Supergirl," and will announce a fifth DC Comics-inspired show soon, according to "This Week in Pendant," a weekly podcast by the executive producer.
Besides on-going shows, Pendant has also released in multiple parts feature-length James Bond and Indiana Jones stories.
Pendant's original shows include an anthology series that includes two original short stories each episode, as well as a sci-fi/crime adventure series, and a modern-day fairy tale series named "Once Upon a Time in Las Vegas."
[edit] Fan Shows
[edit] Comic Based
Four of Pendant's six on-going monthly fan shows are based on popular DC comics characters. While Superman and Batman did in fact appear in radio serials during the 1940s, Wonder Woman, the title character of Pendant's third superhero show, never starred in a professional radio serial.
[edit] Batman: The Ace of Detectives
"Batman: The Ace of Detectives" is an ongoing monthly serial adventure based on the modern incarnation of the character in DC Comics. In February 2007, it was selected to be a featured podcast in the TV & Film category on iTunes.
[edit] Superman: The Last Son of Krypton
"Superman: The Last Son of Krypton" is an ongoing monthly serial adventure based on the modern incarnation of the character in DC Comics.
[edit] Last Son of Krypton star on Radio KAL
Ryan H. Nelson, star of "Superman: The Last Son of Krypton", was interviewed on Superman news show Radio KAL (episode 5) specifically about his roles as Superman/Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen: [1] [2]
[edit] Wonder Woman: The Champion of Themyscira
"Wonder Woman: Champion of Themyscira" is an ongoing monthly serial adventure based on the modern incarnation of the character in DC Comics.
[edit] Supergirl: Lost Daughter of Krypton
"Supergirl: Lost Daughter of Krypton" is a spin-off of "Superman: The Last Son of Krypton." The show premiered May 30, 2007.
[edit] Movie and TV Show Based
[edit] James Bond: The The End
"James Bond: To The End" is a feature-length adventure based on the James Bond film franchise.
[edit] Indiana Jones and the Well of Life
"Indiana Jones and the Well of Life" is a feature-length adventure based on the Indiana Jones film franchise.
[edit] Star Trek: Defiant
"Star Trek: Defiant" is a full-cast, ongoing sci-fi serial adventure based upon the Star Trek television series.
Set after the events of Deep Space Nine, the Defiant has an all new crew piloting the ship across the Galaxy. In the true style of Star Trek, they meet challenges and adversarys both from outside and from within.
The first two episode arcs "Ailing Spirt" and "Wounded Heart" are written and directed by Jeffrey Bridges. The thrid episode arc "Rejuvenated Core" is written by Jeffrey Bridges and directed by Chris Brittain. The fourth and all subsequent arcs will be written by Theresa J McGarry and directed by Chris Brittain.
The show aims to keep an authentic and honest 'trek feel while exploring new avenues and ideas in the universe that has existed for over forty years.
[edit] Defiant in the media
On August 9, 2006, Star Trek: Defiant was featured on the cover of "Hailing Frequencies Open" Vol. 2 Issue 3. "Hailing Frequencies Open" is the newsletter of TrekUnited.com. The issue included an interview about Defiant as a new Trek based radio drama.[3]
[edit] Star Wars: Blue Harvest
"Star Wars: Blue Harvest" is a serialized maxi-series adventure based on the Star Wars film franchise. The show premiered November 10, 2007.
[edit] Originals
[edit] Dixie Stenberg and Brassy Battalion
"Umket Industries Presents: The Dixie Stenberg and Brassy Battalion Adventure Theater" is an original, ongoing, monthly sci-fi serial adventure produced by Pendant Productions, and grew out of a shared love for the classic radio theater shows of the 40s and 50s. Specifically the aerial adventure drama, with shows like Captain Midnight, Hop Harrigan, Adventures by Morse and Speed Gibson.
The tagline of the show provides the setting: "In the early spring of 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the formation of a clandestine squadron of P47 Thunderbolts. This squadron was known as Brassy Battalion, and this is their story..."
[edit] The Kingery
"The Kingery" is a full-cast, ongoing sci-fi serial drama.
[edit] Seminar
"Seminar" is a full-cast, ongoing anthology show with no restrictions on genre.
[edit] The Pendant Shakespeare
"The Pendant Shakespeare" is an on-going monthly presentation of the works of the Bard.
[edit] Once Upon a Time in Vegas
A pack of werewolves have moved to Las Vegas to hunt some high profile prey.
[edit] The Pendant Shakespeare
"The Pendant Shakespeare aka The Wild Bill Variety Show" is an ongoing monthly presentation of the works of William Shakespeare.
[edit] This Week In Pendant!
"This Week In Pendant" is a weekly round-up of Pendant's shows, featuring news, interviews, casting calls and generally more than you probably ever wanted to know about Pendant Productions.
[edit] Pendant Productions on the air
Pendant shows have aired on CHLY-FM radio in Canada.
Pendant shows are currently featured on "The Pendant Audio Power Hour" on KTDR-FM in Del Rio, Texas, every Sunday night.
Clips from Pendant show "James Bond: To The End" were featured on the program "Saturday Live" on BBC4 radio.
Pendant shows may soon be broadcast on a radio station in New Zealand, but it is not finalized yet.
