Welcomed by Design and Unwell, part 2
Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery
Audacious Machine Creative
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We're back with the second episode of Welcomed by Design's interview with the Unwell team at the University of Pittsburgh! We hope you enjoy, and we're looking forward to bringing back more of Unwell Season Five in two weeks.
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On this episode of Welcomed by Design, we listen back to Fall 2022’s Queer Horror Week, coordinated by Pitt’s Horror Studies Working Group. Members of our team got to panel with many cool creatives, including the wonderful, BBC award-winning team of Unwell, to talk about accessibility and identity in the world of audio dramas! With a topic like that, there’s obviously going to be far too much good conversation to have a mere hour of footage. So we’re releasing a two-part special (which, given its patchwork of event audio clips, a lá Frankenstein’s monster, is thematically spooky in structure).
In this part 2, we discuss inclusive world-building, from challenging what gets capital-O Othered and what is normalized, to some of the team’s favorite aspects of the world they’ve created.
Be sure to check out part 1 for even more conversation, which focuses on real-life accessibility and inclusion in their production.
Open episode transcript (which we’ve annotated this episode, in honor of Unwell!)
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Check out Unwell, a fictional Midwestern Gothic Mystery podcast, about conspiracies, ghosts, and unusual families of blood and choice…
Host and producer: Lynn Priestley Executive producer: Dr. Jessica FitzPatrick Sound designer: Chloe Dahan Producer: Emily Kuntz Transcriber: Shivangi “Teddy” Tiwari
Sound credits:
Turning to You” from Landmans Duet, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), “Valantis” from Cauldron, by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), Some sound effects were sourced from Freesound.org., Julesv4 - Door Creaking, Nettimato - Chain, Keweldog - Crunching Scraping, Mincedbeats - Gel Squelches, TRP - Foot Squish Wet Mud Puddle Stratford, Garzul - Analog Lazer fx, Florianreichelt - Soft Wind, The remaining sound clips used (except for the door opening sound clip), outside of spoken audio, were free sound effects from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com
If you have questions, guest suggestions, or comments about the accessibility of this podcast, please don’t hesitate to email us at welcomedbydesign@gmail.com.
Unembedded link to above-mentioned resource library: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1unKUUqD_SH2Qi0C94s2j7WEuXdtP0k0e?usp=sharing
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, listener. This is producer Jeffrey. Step into my time machine. Long ago, beginning in the |
| 0:08.0 | ancient past of 2009, we made a show called Our Fair City. Now, Our Fair City is a sprawling |
| 0:16.7 | epic story set in the dystopian future of Hartford, Connecticut. A climate disaster made the world |
| 0:23.3 | outside a frozen wasteland. What remains of humanity lives inside in a largely subterranean city |
| 0:30.4 | governed by the remains of an insurance company. Now, our fair city is darkly funny. You'll meet mad scientists, lightning rigors, |
| 0:40.8 | the Woken Dead, giant ants, time travelers, and mole people. We are currently re-releasing |
| 0:48.1 | Our Fair City weekly. So this is a great time to join us for a romp through the tunnels of heartlife. |
| 0:56.2 | After today's episode, we'll be sharing a trailer for the show. |
| 0:59.7 | I hope you'll check it out. |
| 1:00.9 | And I would love you to join us in our listen of Our Fair City, found wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. |
| 1:11.1 | Hello, hello. This is Eleanor, executive producer of Unwell. This show is possible because |
| 1:16.7 | of the support of our fans. That's you. If you are enjoying the show, we hope that you will |
| 1:23.2 | join us as a member at audacious machine creative.com. For $5 a month, members get all kinds of |
| 1:31.3 | behind-the-scenes content, like annotated scripts, deleted scenes, and full tracks of the |
| 1:37.0 | original music in the show. And you get an ad-free feed, not only of Unwell, but also of all of the other fiction podcasts we make. |
| 1:47.0 | You can find us at audacious machine creative.com. |
| 1:51.2 | Again, that's audacious machine creative.com. |
| 1:57.0 | Hi, listeners. As you'll hear in the upcoming introduction, this episode is built from content recorded in fall of 2022. |
| 2:06.1 | But given what is happening nationally and in the Pitt community, while we're posting this episode about inclusive world building and normalizing queerness, |
| 2:15.1 | we wanted to acknowledge the ongoing struggle against deeply hateful, |
| 2:19.6 | ignorant, and dangerous anti-trans rhetoric and bills being passed. Even just on our team's |
| 2:26.6 | campus between March and April 2023, student organizations at Pitt are hosting three transphobic |
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