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So, each episode begins with this fictional podcast that Darius and Sanaa are doing in the story it's part of their school project that they're working on. It was also a good way to set up each episode-they're kind of like a framing device. Partly because I'm a fan of a lot of them, and people are used to that sort of medium nowadays. So, I began with the mystery genre and then, because it was the audio format, I brought in the podcast idea. "What's next?" and "What's really going on?" and "Who are these people?" All that kind of stuff, I love.
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Those immersive mystery shows that keep you guessing. And I'm a big fan of the old Agatha Christie mysteries and shows like Westworld or Lost, back in the day. So, I thought this was an opportunity to do something different that I've been playing around with for a while. MDM: Initially, I wanted to do a mystery story because it's not something we typically did in the Avatar universe. How did you arrive at each of these storytelling styles when you were writing Sundown? And did you always know you wanted to tell the story this way?
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And the full story is almost like a collection of puzzle pieces that the listener must assemble as they go. So, it feels like with each scene we're going deeper-we get a new layer. And then we hear our two main characters, Darius and Sanaa, narrating to us in an investigative podcast format. MB: We start with a scene of a man in the future, and then we jump to high school in the year 2020. "Here's one thing about audio: It's open to interpretation." You get the vibe that it's somewhere in the future. But it's not said specifically exactly where he is in space and time. Here's one thing about audio: It's open to interpretation. It is a spaceship, right? I assumed it was.
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I don't want to give anything away, but we start with a scene of a man on a spaceship. MB: Well, we have a very multilayered story here. So again, that part was familiar to me, and I always enjoyed that part of the process of like “Oh, we could use that part of that line and combine it with this take.” And my work in animation, a lot of it was working with actors, being with the dialogue editor, editing all the voices together into the track that the artist would use to create the storyboards and the animation from. Audio is so fast-moving, where something happens and you want to change it, and you can just change it easily because everyone's right there. MB: I've heard it said before that it can be really refreshing to be working in audio for the first time if you're coming from television. It's very appealing when you have a story that works well in this kind of genre as a way of telling stories in different ways and kind of testing out stories and seeing what possibilities the story could have down the line. One of the big things that's appealing about the audio format is that it obviously costs money to make these things and takes people to help produce it, but compared to television, which I'm used to, where you need big budgets, you need these huge crews, you need so much time to get it done. I very much wrote Sundown as a season, with a beginning, middle, and end, and each episode has its own self-contained story line that adds to the broader narrative. MDM: Part of it is, that it is, in a lot of ways, similar to the television episodic format that I was used to writing in. What appealed to you about the audio format specifically? And I'm a big podcast listener, so it wasn't totally foreign to me. So, when this opportunity came up, I was excited to try it out. I always like trying different media for storytelling and seeing the different limitations, the different styles that you use, and the different formats. And then I wrote a couple of middle-grade fantasy novels, and I wrote some graphic novels for the Avatar universe. I've done a bunch of different types of writing over the years on TV. I got this opportunity with Audible and sort of jumped at it. MB: So, it sounds like this is the first time you've worked with the audio-only format. Now, Michael is turning his attention to the audio medium with his Audible Original podcast, Sundown: A Time Capsule Society Mystery. Michael has been working in animation for over 20 years, with stints on multiple shows, including King of the Hill and Family Guy.
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Melissa Bendixen: Hello, listeners, this is Audible Editor Melissa Bendixen and I have the pleasure of opening this conversation with writer and producer Michael Dante DiMartino, who you might know as the co-creator of legendary animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender and the sequel, The Legend of Korra. Note: Text has been edited and does not match audio exactly