The Catskill Chronicle

Story and photos by Leni Santoro – Illustrations by Ed Lamphier

Mr. Ellmauer says, “Science!” – just one of the illustrations created by Ed Lamphier for the YRP.

JEFFERSONVILLE, NY (December 22, 2010) – I was invited to photograph the YRP as they put the finishing touches on their annual holiday radio play last night.

The production room at WJFF is small to say the least, but it was filled to the brim with creativity and excitement last night.

Each year the YRP chooses a theme for their radio play. This year’s theme is zombies. “Zombie Bells: Night of the Giving Dead” asked the question, “Who will be the last one standing against Zombie Santa?”

“Zombie Bells…” is an original “holiday, horror radio comedy” written and produced by the YRP. Not intended for the small fry, older young people and adults will laugh and find all their “zombie” dreams fulfilled.

Seth Wegener is listed as head writer. But as instructor Jason Dole points out, it really is a group project with many of the YRP contributing scenes and lines, even it would seem, at the last minute; as was the case last night.

After the voice recording was done, sitting  in the WJFF studio last night, I watched WJFF’s Youth Radio Project putting the finishing touches on their X-mas X-travaganza. Audio editing was going on in the production room while Seth was editing and researching sound effects in the main room. Curtis appears and grabs pieces of a script before rushing out the door, vowing to put music to the background.

Through it all YRP instructor Jason Dole is running from room to room coordinating, answering questions, pointing out good shots to me and all with a smile and a belief that it all comes together in the end.

Tonight WJFF’s Youth Radio Project’s Radio Revolution listeners will reap the rewards of the YRP’s efforts. The show airs on WJFF 90.5 FM at 9 p.m. And as a special Christmas gift the show will also air again at 1 a.m. Christmas morning. WJFF also streams live on the web and the YRP’s radio play will be available for the coming two weeks in the audio archive‘; also available online.

Below are the images created by Ed Lamphier for tonite’s broadcast:

Above photo captions: 1- Jenny’s Got a Gun. 2- Kyneilia Doesn’t Care. 3- Rudolph and Snap Fight Zombies with Music!! 4- Scotty is Good and Follows his Inner Santa. 5- Britney and Chug are Popular and Expendable. 6- Poster created for the production.