Elliot Wolf previewed what’s on the way following the initial episodes that were released:
Not all of Dark Woods actually takes place in the woods, as the storyline is split between game warden Mark Ellis (voiced by Law & Order: LA and Ant-Man alum Corey Stoll) investigating the death of a young woman in the forest, while city councilwoman Laura (voiced by Chicago Fire’s Monica Raymund) has to approach the problem from a different angle, even though the divorcing pair have to find a way join forces, along with Reid Scott of Veep fame as Arthur Hedley, who is caught up in the situation. So we've recorded all the foley from picking up a coffee mug to the creek that you hear to the trees rustling to the footsteps in the forest. And in order to do that successfully, the sounds have to be authentic. And that, in turn, lets your imagination create the rest of the story for you. The goal is to make it feel like you are listening to a television show without the visual. As Elliot Wolf went on to explain, that was a goal in creating the podcast: In fact, after the three episodes that have released so far, Dark Woods installments can come across as episodes of television being listened to with eyes shut, and the podcast sets up the story in a way that can conjure up visuals. A significant part of the story is actually set within the California redwood forest, even as it involves drugs and environmental threats and politics in a small town, and the sounds of the forest help raise the stakes. Interestingly, the team did some on-location recording for the background audio to create atmosphere. So from the point of sound design, it was quite a massive lift, and the entire team rallied around it and we really wanted to make something special.įortunately for everybody, there were backups for the recordings in case the worst should have happened and the audio on either the kits or the cloud was lost.
The other aspect of it is the actual sound design and while all the actors were remote, we still had our foley artists go out into the woods and actually record the creeks, the forest at night, and all those sounds are authentic. We put together these remote kits and shipped them all across the country and then got them back and we're downloading the audio off of the devices themselves, while also recording them on the cloud live during the performances, and managing to put all that together and create such an immersive sound experience.
From our director Takashi Doscher – he did an excellent job, sort of managing the production and having the actors and actresses find their footing and understand where they were in the story coming in, and not always being able to work off the other actors in the scene – to our sound design team, who technically figured out the entire thing. It's really a testament to the whole team. Elliot Wolf explained the process behind getting all of the audio together for the project:
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In fact, Monica Raymund managed to record her lines as leading lady Laura from the set of Hightown, her series on Starz.
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There’s no disputing that the quality of the Wolf Entertainment storytelling has been attracting television viewers for literal decades now thanks to the Law & Order and Chicago series, and fans of those shows can expect to find that storytelling element present in Dark Woods, despite the podcast as a very different medium than a TV show.Īnd it’s thanks to some significant adaptations from the team behind the podcast that it was even ready to premiere in November of 2021, since the production process had to happen with people working remotely. So I think fans of Law & Order and the Chicagos and FBI should expect a similar quality of storytelling that's going to take you on an emotional journey that you're invested in. And with podcasts, with the sound design team that we have, the writers and directors that we're able to work with, we're able to do that. And as long as we can bring our quality of storytelling to a new medium, we're interested in doing it. At our core, we are storytellers, first and foremost. I lead digital for Wolf across all mediums and my mandate, whether it be social media, podcasting, other new forms of storytelling that we're getting into, is to maintain the quality of the shows. When I recently spoke with Elliot Wolf about the podcast, he shared what it offers to fans of the Wolf TV shows who might not be familiar with a audio fiction series: Dark Woods, which will itself be adapted into a television series in partnership between Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, stars Chicago Fire ’s Monica Raymund and Law & Order: LA veteran Corey Stoll.
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