what is a radio drama ?
A radio drama is a dramatised, purely acoustic performance, it is something with a non visual component, radio dramas depend of dialogue, music and sound effects that helps the listener imagine the characters and story in their mind, radio dramas includes plays written for the radio. Radio drama are very popular their popularity has been widespread within a decade of its initial development from 1920s to 1940s. By the 21st century , radio drams had a minimal presence. on terrestrial radio in the US, many America radio dramas have been restricted to rebroadcasts of programmes from pervious decades. The BCC produces and boardcasts hundreds of new radio plays each year on Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio 4 extra. The most successful radio drama is the roman playwright " Seneca has been claimed as a forerunner of radio drama because his plays were performed by readers as sound plays, not by actors as stage plays.
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pollux 10
At the beginning of this piece there is a buzzing noise, I think that writer decided to do this to grab the audiences attention from the beginning, this may have been created by a sound effect or a foley sound, this is continually from 0.00 to 0.17, at 0.17 a high pitch voice is layered on top of the. buzzing, i think the writer has done this to show there is a change in scene, the voice begins to tell the story at WW3, whilst the male is talking the sound behind his slowly begins to change to indicate to the audience this could be a helicopter, thought the beginning of the piece the voice has the same tone, I feel as though after a while this becomes very boring for the audience. as it would be better if we could hear more emotion within the voice. At 0.40 a beeping noise is introduced into the piece the beeping noise isn't over powering so we are still able to hear the voice clearly, as the piece contuines the narrator begins to intrude facts to the story, whilst listening to this piece I often found myself losing attention and focusing more on the sound rather than the actually story itself. 0.40-0.50 the beeping begins to get louder and at 0.50 complete cuts out the story the narrator is telling begins to get sad, i feel that the writer wanted the mood of the piece to change at this point. At 1.00 a drilling noise is added into the piece, I feel that the writer was successful when adding sounds into her piece to create different atmosphere. At 1.20 all sound cuts out including the narrator voice leaving us with silence for 2 or 3 seconds. A young female voice appears in the piece, speaking as though she is taking to her commander, whilst she is talking a quite humming noise the type you would hear at an airfield, we then discover she was talking into a radio we know this when the girl says over. The male voice reappear as he is another commander, the audio is broken up thought to show they are talking through a walkie talkey and the connection isn't good, when listening to this I really enjoyed this because it made me feel although I was actually listening to the conversation. after listening to this piece for 2 minutes I thought that this piece started of not well be then got better there were successful moment but also some unsuccessful moments.
saints and sinners
At 0.00 the first sound we hear is a bell, we then hear a second bell but its quitter, a third that is even quiter than the other two. the pattern continues. At. 0.09 we hear a door opening, we can then hear a large group of people talking loudly but the sound effect has been turned down, at 0.20 you can here stop step entering the room, I think there is a big change between the two piece the sounds for s+s are much for professional then the ones for pollux 10 was. 0.25 a deep male American voice begins talking, another voice enter also an American male. The talking in the background continues and so does the footsteps, I liked this because it felt realistic and natural, the first American male begins to pray at this point there is no other background noise, I think the writer decided to do this so the audience was able to focus on the males pray as it may hold a significant later in the radio drama. The two male Americans then have a conversation back and forward there is still no sound at this point.
codes and conventions
- words
because there is no visual clues, radio relies on the words spoken by the actor to communicate with the audience.
- voices
the audience understands who a character is by the way they speak. Are female and male, young or old, working class or well off
- speech
how the words are spoken conveys to the audience the emotional state of a character. Angry, sad, happy or depressed. At the beginning of the drama his voice has sad and upset tones within it, he is talking very slowly indicating he is upset, he is also talking is very short sentences.
- background music and ambient sound
convey mood and may suggest a setting. think of these as establishing your miseducating- en -scene. the music is quite at the beginning its slow, it feel this builds a mysterious feeling the the drama making the audience what to listen on, it grabs the audience's attention. The music starts to change as it goes on and begins to get louder.
-sound effects
these allow the audience to understand that something has happened. In Kentwood we can hear a hospital heartbeat machine, we instantly know that he is in the hospital without the narrator tell us, it sets the scene.
- silence
silence can be used for dramatic effect, to build tension or create mood
- aural signposting
is used to signal to the audience that something is about to take place. A telephone ringing tells us that a conversation us about to happen.
- titles and credits
these are spoken at the end or beginning of the drama. In Kentwood there is no titles or credit at the beginning of the drama, nor is there at the end
-cliffhanger ending
leaves the audience wanting more and are often used in ongoing series.
- narration
can be used to give the audience information that they need to. understand the story
because there is no visual clues, radio relies on the words spoken by the actor to communicate with the audience.
- voices
the audience understands who a character is by the way they speak. Are female and male, young or old, working class or well off
- speech
how the words are spoken conveys to the audience the emotional state of a character. Angry, sad, happy or depressed. At the beginning of the drama his voice has sad and upset tones within it, he is talking very slowly indicating he is upset, he is also talking is very short sentences.
- background music and ambient sound
convey mood and may suggest a setting. think of these as establishing your miseducating- en -scene. the music is quite at the beginning its slow, it feel this builds a mysterious feeling the the drama making the audience what to listen on, it grabs the audience's attention. The music starts to change as it goes on and begins to get louder.
-sound effects
these allow the audience to understand that something has happened. In Kentwood we can hear a hospital heartbeat machine, we instantly know that he is in the hospital without the narrator tell us, it sets the scene.
- silence
silence can be used for dramatic effect, to build tension or create mood
- aural signposting
is used to signal to the audience that something is about to take place. A telephone ringing tells us that a conversation us about to happen.
- titles and credits
these are spoken at the end or beginning of the drama. In Kentwood there is no titles or credit at the beginning of the drama, nor is there at the end
-cliffhanger ending
leaves the audience wanting more and are often used in ongoing series.
- narration
can be used to give the audience information that they need to. understand the story
primary research
1. NAME
2.AGE - to know whether they fit are target audience.
3. GENDER - target audience
2.AGE - to know whether they fit are target audience.
3. GENDER - target audience
secondary research
Top 100 US Podcasts (Apple Podcasts Top Charts) In 2020
Top 4
Top 4
Ross Winn. (2020). Top 100 US Podcasts (Apple Podcasts Top Charts) In 2020. Available: dcastinsights.com/top-us-podcasts/. Last accessed 9TH JAN 2020.
All the Podcasts shown on BBC players, are relevant to important British topic that have recently been in the news such as Brexit. Because BBC iplayer is maybe by the BBC how also make the news, so they know how to keep the topics hot and revelant. this is a topic that everyone has talking about lately so has become an largely talked how topic, so the audience want to know to hear others opinion for just become more educated topic there self. In Britain football has always been a very popular topic that a lot of British people are interested in. Along with Brexit the general election was a big topic, that frequently was brought up within the news, I think this topic would appeal to audiences because people are nosey about what others think about the election and also some are uneducated so they want to know more. Finally the other podcast that appeared was entrainment type podcast, along from people wanting to know about important issues, the BBC has also recognises that audience what to be enterianted, this podcasts are about general life, poetry, comedy.
The 10 Best Podcast for Teens
1. 411 Teen 2. TED talks 3. Youth Radio 4.The Moth 5. Radiolab 6.NErdette |
BBC iplayer
The top 5 genres in terms of broad popularity are:
no name. (2018). Here Are the Most popular Podcast Genre. Available: https://www.marketingcharts.com/industries/media-and-entertainment-105211. Last accessed 9th jan 2020.
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