How did you attract/address your audience?

As we are around the age of the characters in our radio drama, addressing our audience was quite a simple thing to do as we all know what we as the targeted audience find attractive, and also because we are a mixed sex group we could inflict opinions through a male and female point of view. This included; writing the script, acting, and the storylines.

As our drama was through a radio format, we had to rely solely on the language and lexis choice. We had to put ourselves in the characters minds and use our imagination on how the characters would talk, we come to the conclusion that as they were teenagers, using a more recieved pronounciation would not be correct, so we decided to use limited use of slang, this would therefore result in a better communication with our target audience.

Sound effects also caused a strong choice in our radio drama, using too many sound effects would have made our drama too hard to relate to, so although some use of sound effects was necessary, we did not use too many, as this would have made our drama too unrealistic, afterall who has background music playing whilst they're having a conversation with someone?

Our main point to our drama was to represent our collective identity of students in a positive way, as many television programmes have found that representing students in a negative way would collect a larger audience, programmes like skins for example. We felt that the only reason that this was successful is due to how unrealistic their representations are, there is always so much drama going on. Therefore we concluded that we would have to exaggerate our storylines to an extent, to keep our audience interested and not bored.

As our storyline was based on university we felt that this also helped to attract our target audience, as many students will be faced with the decision of which university to go to, and wether they actually wish to go or not. The strong relationship between Elisa and Ethan also attracted our audience well I though as many students could possibly have this connection with someone and be faced with the same issues raised in our radio drama.

Production diary log eighteen: Thursday 18th March

This week we finished editing our radio drama, which we then put onto cd again. I have also finished my double page spread radio listings, I feel that I have completed it in quite a professional way, along with learning new skills on Indesign. I have attached the final version of my radio listings.



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Production diary log seventeen: Thursday 11th March

This week, we have finished revamping our script, and re-recorded our script aswell to a better standard. We will finish the editing next week. Also this week I have started work on my double page spread of radio listings, i will be using "The Radio Times" radio listings in order to create my own, therefore this will result in a much more professional listings. I will be using indesign to do this.

Production diary log sixteen: Thursday 4th March

This week we have gotten our audience feedback, many said that they liked our radio drama, however the white noise sound in the background was quite painful to listen to, and also our one storyline of Elisa just making the choice of which university to go to was not a strong enough storyline, after this we have decided to throw in a teenage pregnancy into the mix, and we have also decided to re record our radio drama, aswell as rewrite sections of our script to include this teenage pregnancy, this will be done over the next week to be completed.

Production diary log fifteen: Thursday 25th February

I have been working on my newspaper advertisement for our radio drama, I have found an image that i had taken on holiday that i will be including as the image, I will attach an image of what my advertisement looks like finished, I am quite pleased at how it turned out. I used an image of dice aswell, as i felt that this linked with the decisions.

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Production diary log fourteen: Thursday 4th & 11th February

Through these two weeks, we have finished our editing, we have also put it onto a CD ready for our audience feedback we will be recieving from our peers in a couple of weeks time. Next week I will be starting my newspaper advertisement, i have decided that i will be using Radio 4 as my distributer for our radio drama. I have also decided that we will be "broadcasting" our radio drama on Saturday 27th March at 10PM. I have drafted up what i want it to look like and i will be attaching an image along with this blog post of what it looks like.



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Production diary log thirteen: Thursday 28th January

This week we are still editing our radio drama, but also considering our advertisement, i have decided to add an image of a girl as this storyline is mostly about Elisa's decision. We are hoping to have our editing done by next week.

Production diary log twelve: Thursday 21st January

This week we carried on with our editing, we have been given our sheets telling us that we need to make a double page spread of a radio times listings, using Indesgin. We also have to create a newspaper advertisement for our radio drama.

Production diary log eleven: Thursday 14th January

This week we finished recording our radio drama and started thoroughly editing out bits that we didnt want, we also started adding even more effects into our radio drama. I will attach a clip to this post showing a snippet before we started the editing.

Production diary log ten: Thursday 7th January

This week we began recording our radio drama in the suite, we are going to finish recording next week. We also began to edit parts of our radio drama. We are also looking at different sound effects to use throughout our radio drama online and using soundtrack pro. We found this rather useful website that had quite a few effects on it which we could import into soundtrack pro and use.

http://www.findsounds.com/types.html

Production diary log nine: Thursday 17th December

This week we have finished typing up our script, we have drafted up who will be playing the parts of Elisa, Ethan and the other characters they are as follows;

Elisa: Amanda
Ethan: Jorden
Ben: Jorden
Lisa:Rachel
Elisa's mum : Katie

After the Christmas break we will begin to record our radio drama finally, and we will then begin editing parts out, and adding in sound effects.

Production diary log eight : Thursday 10th December

This week we are carried on with the final touches to our script, we are beginning to type it all up, we are hoping to have this finished by next week before the Christmas break. We have ensured to add in cues into our script to make the scenes easier to edit when we have finished recording it.

Production diary log seven: Thursday 3rd December

This week we carried on writing our script, including scenes where we developed the characters Elisa and Ethan's relationship. In the next couple of weeks we are hoping to be able to borrow the recording suite and record our radio drama.

Production diary log six: Thursday 26th November

This week we started to discuss ideas of plots for our script, briefly viewing ideas and brainstorming. After thought we decided it would be in our best interests to start writing our script, thinking that this would give us a better idea of where to go from there.
Attached is the rough draft of our first inital scene.




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Production diary log five: Thursday 19th November

This week we brought names into the mix, we decided on our main characters personalities, as well as a few other extras.

Elisa: Elisa is a young girl who has been dreaming of going to university all her life, she also has her long-term loving boyfriend Ethan who is her first love, and her only love as far as she can see it. She is an intelligent, caring young teenager who is certain what she wants to acheive in life, she just doesn't know what to do with it at the moment. When faced with the decision of not being able to go to university with Ethan, this really plays on her mind, does she really want to leave her first love behind and follow her dreams?

Ethan: Ethan is also a young teenage boy facing the same decisions of university as Elisa, although he only got his choice to go to a less amazing university as Edingburg, which is Elisa's dream university. He loves Elisa very much, and even though he wants to be with her, he still doesn't wish for her to throw away her dream university aswell. Should he let her walk out of his life and risk loosing their amazing relationship at the same time?

We also drafted out Elisa's mum, a friend of Elisa's and a friend of Ethans.

Production diary log four: Thursday 12th November

This week we carried on discussing ideas, and finally came up with an idea that was around our areas of interest at the moment, University. After thinking thoroughly this idea was not strong enough, and we decided to throw a relationship into the mix, after this inital idea we thought of things that would make this decision hard to make, and thought out two characters who are in love, one is extremely intelligent, and the other not so much. The female character has achieved an unconditional offer from her university of her dreams, and also an offer from the university that her lover will be attending. It is her decision to leave her boyfriend and go to her dreamt of university, or to attend a less incredible university and to be with her long term boyfriend.

Production diary log three: Thursday 5th November

This week we really thought out our ideas, and although felt we initially came up with some great ideas, they were a bit ambitious and were incredibly sensitive ideas that we would have to be quite careful when adressing, after deep discussions we decided that it would be better to scrap this idea, and in the meantime think out some more ideas that would be easier to deal with, and also less sensitive.

Production diary log two: Thursday 29th October

This week we didn't go into college, however we were instructed to keep brainstorming ideas, and come up with a rough copy by next thursday. I will include a copy of our brainstormed ideas.


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Production diary log one: Thursday 22nd October

This week the idea of radio drama was raised to our group, this was the inital starting date of the progression of our radio drama. We began our initial development and brainstorming of our radio drama's. Our first original idea was possibly to make a tear jerker radio drama possibly about a terminal illness.

How effective is the combination of your main product and your ancillary texts?

My decisions newspaper advert is a great way of advertising and reaching out to our target audience, I have created my newspaper advert in a way that i think our target audience (young/old teens) would find most appealing. This has been an effective way of making sure that our target audience would listen to our radio drama when it is broadcast.

My radio listings also furthers this advertising, not only will the targeted audience know when its on, but also they will be able to remember clearly when it is broad casted, just to make sure that they do not miss it. I have also included a short description of the radio drama, and what may be included in the episode, i think that this would further make our targeted audience find this appealing, as they know what to expect and can make a decision before hand if they wish to listen to the radio drama.

Our radio drama was written in a way that would make it most appealing to our target audience, We tried our best to write it in an informal way, so it was easy for us to act out. Although it was written formally, there was points in which we decided to write parts in slang, this was because we wanted our target audience entertained, and able to relate to our audience, so in doing this we effectively targeted our audience.

I feel that due to our editing techniques, and the way that it was acted out, i feel that our target audience would be kept entertained, and our radio drama was presented in a realistic way, causing the characters to be easily related to.

I feel that the combination of all three forms put together was a very effective way to present our radio drama.

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

I have learnt how to further my knowledge using three different technologies, these include; Indesign, Photoshop and Soundtrack pro.

Photoshop

I have used Photoshop in order to create my newspaper advertisement. I used this programme in order to edit my photograph i will be using as the image in my advertisement, to make it more professional and appealing to my targeted audience. I will attach photos of how I used photoshop.

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Indesign
As we used indesign last year using indesign was like second nature to me, I put my skills into practice in order to produce my newspaper advertisement, and my newspaper listings page.

This helped to make both ancillary texts more professional. Attached are screen shots of how I used this programme.

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Soundtrack Pro

Soundtrack pro was used in order to edit our radio drama and add in sound effects, attached are screen shots of how we used it to edit our radio drama.

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What did you learn from your audience feedback?

As an element of the production of our radio drama, we learnt that we would be recieving audience feedback. During this, all of the groups in our class presented their radio dramas, during this participants wrote anonomously on a sheet, stating what could be improved within the radio dramas.

We learnt from our audience feedback that our characters were not developed enough and that people found it hard to relate to the characters Ethan and Elisa, as the decision they were making about uni was not strong enough. In order to do this, we realised that we would have to explore the characters Elisa and Ethan again. To fully explore the characters, we decided to create a "Character development" This involved what we thought the characters would be like both emotionally and towards other people. In doing this, we really began to learn our characters personalities, and this way we could all join together in creating characters that we all agreed would be relevant. (I will include images of these development diagrams at the end of this post.)

Another issue that was raised during audience feedback was the problem that we found with the amount of white noise in the background of our radio drama, we knew that this would possibly make our sound clips unusable. Due to this not being reparable, we decided that the best thing to do would be to re-record our radio drama, this way our radio drama would seem more proffessionable and would hopefully help the audience relate to our radio drama, and make it seem more realistic. (I will include a soundclip of our older radio drama which we recorded, so that you can see for yourself the extent of white noise.)

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The final issue that was pointed out to us during audience feedback was that the storyline of Elisa not being able to chose which uni to go to was not a strong enough point to base our radio drama on. After deep discussion within our group, we decided that we would rewrite our script, and include another major issue that would easily make our radio drama more realistic and also entertaining. As we were going to re-record our radio drama, this was quite a convenient issue that was raised, and i feel that re-recording our radio drama was the correct thing to do to improve our radio drama, and make our targeted audience much more interested and to make it easier to relate to.

Over all I have learnt that in order to make our radio drama the best, audience feedback was the best thing for it, as before we received our audience feedback, we didnt realise that any of the issues raised were a big problem. As the audience that were giving the feedback were around the age of our targeted audience, this also made it a valued point of view which we really used to our full advantage.


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Who would be the audience for your media product?

I will be breaking down the audiences that we have tried to attract in seperate parts, these include; age, income, sex, location and race.

Age:
We have tried to attract a broad range across the teenage mark, but putting this into numbers they would be between 15-24 year olds. The reason that the age barrier is quite broad is due to the fact that many of the younger generation would be going through particular points that we have arrisen in our radio drama, and because of this it is hard to make a limited age barrier of say 15-20 year olds.

Income:
The income basis that our radio drama would attract is possibly quite broad as university students do not have to be necessarily upper class nowadays due to University grants being available. Therefore our basis would be as far up as the upper class right through to the lower class/working class.

Sex:
I feel that even though we have a wide range of males and females, as our storyline is based around relationships, love and teenage pregnancy that our radio drama would more than likely appeal to more females than males, however i believe that there would be a few males that would also be listening possibly because they may be able to relate to the situations that are being delt with.

Location:
I feel that our radio drama would be able to be listened to throughout the UK and the US as i am aware of programmes that are based on teenage pregnancy/relationships throughout the US which are in the lime light at the moment, such as 'Glee' and '90210' although these programmes are shown visually, there is still a major audience that are interested in programmes such as this, and as ours is in radio format, i still believe we would be able to pick up a broad audience. I also think that our radio drama would be able to be shown other places such as Austrailia, France and Spain e.t.c, however i feel that the drama would not be such a big hit as the way that people live, and their views on these topics are vastly different ones by the UK and USA, and also the language barrier would be a major problem.

Race:
I feel that our radio drama would be attractive to all races, as it is not focused on one particular race.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

As radio drama has slowly become to acttract a smaller audience, many radio stations don't supply this type of format. However one radio station that does broadcast such dramas is BBC Radio 4, because of this we thought that this would be the best radio station to broadcast our radio drama. However, as our radio drama is about teenagers this may cause problems if Radio 4 were to broadcast our drama, as their audience is mainly of the older generation which would therefore result in an even smaller listener count.

At the same time however, radio 4 could introduce this to pick up newer listeners who would be interested in this type of a show, as it follows closely as programmes such as 'One Tree Hill' and 'The OC'.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

As our radio drama is about a bunch of people going to university, immediately it represents the whole of the teenage grouping, as even if they are not going to university, they have still had to decide that they would not like to go. The idea of teenage pregnancy also targets younger girls between the ages of 12+, because our characters were just leaving after their a levels, they had to talk as though educated, but also not too posh as we wanted our radio drama to try and appeal to all teenage girls aswell as teenage boys in the same situation. At the same time we had to approach the issues raised with some kind of sympathy as many people may be going through the same difficult points in their life at the moment.

Not only did we try and target the younger generation, we also introduced the character Janice who is Elisa's mother. As you only see a snippet of this character we tried to cram her personality into the scene, we tried to represent her as a supportive, caring and excitable mother, but also quite motherly at the same time, i feel we were successful in doing this and because of this we can add mother's / woman guardians to the social groups we have represented.

Another two characters we have introduced into our drama would include Ethan, who is Elisa's ever caring and long term boyfriend, and also Ben, who is Ethan's best friend. From the previous diagrams in my blog post "In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?" you will be able to see the type of person that Ethan is, and for Ben, he is the respectful, good bestfriend type of person. In this way we can represent a broader set of the male teenage scenario, as many males can relate to having a good bond with another male.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Originally our radio drama did not use the basic concepts of a reasonably good radio drama, e.g. The archers. We originally had only one main storyline, being that Elisa was having doubts of which uni to chose to enroll in, the main reason being that she did not want to leave Ethan to go to her dream uni further away. We all agreed that this was too much like real life, and although we did want our radio drama to appeal to our target audience of students, we realised that if our radio drama did not have any "drama" in it, this would not be entertaining enough, comparing our radio drama to one of the archers, who would usually have 2-3 main points happening in one single episode.

Another problem that we have had with our originally shot radio drama was the amount of white noise, this was a problem caused while recording our radio drama, and because of how loud it is we decided that the best thing to do would be to re-record it. We also realised that our characters were not developed enough for the audience to relate to the characters which needs to happen in order for the audience to get the feeling that they would like to listen to episodes in the future. In order to develop our characters more thoroughly we created mind maps of how we thought that the characters would be, I will be including the images of these within my post, this character development helped us to relate to the characters and develop them more consistently.

Another way in which we have used other media products, is the linear storyline; Beginning, middle and end. I feel that in doing this, it is clear what is going on the in the drama, and that the audience would find it easier to follow. After researching other radio dramas we found that in particular The Archers implement this discourse in their own dramas. To further use conventions of a radio drama, we decided to research on how the actors talked in radio dramas, we in particular looked at The Twilight Zone, as we felt that their actors really used their voices to get the message across. I feel that the way that the actors talk plays a major part in relating to an audience, as it must be believable. We noticed that the characters used stress, intonation and pitch in order to do this.

Although I do feel that we did not fully use conventions of an average radio drama very well, I do feel that there are some aspects of the original recording that did reflect other radio dramas in our own, for example comparing our radio drama to "The Twilight Zone", they would normally use a variety of sound effects and music to increase the effect of their radio drama, for example listening to the first 5 minutes of one episode I found that they used music, narration, sound effects of a car door opening, a bell ringing etc. I think that our editing was originally used to an okay standard, we used sound effects during the scene where the characters Elisa and Ethan were finding out their results this included a group of people talking in the back ground, I feel that this helped to set the scene, and also helped to build an image of a busy environment. We also used sound effects for the car door opening, and also to make one of the speakers voices deeper, so differenciate between the actors voices I believe this helped to make our radio drama to build an image in someones mind of how the scene would look if you were able to see it.

Another major part of our radio drama that we had to look into was the language use used in the script. This would play a huge role in wether we were able to correctly relate to our audience, as our radio drama was aimed at 15-24 year olds we would have to write our script as though we were this age, as we are all in this age boundry this was quite easy to do, as we wrote it in a way that we ourselves would find appealing.

In order to improve on our originally recorded radio drama, we decided to revamp the characters personalities, we did this by creating character mind maps for both Elisa and Ethan, as they were the main characters of the radio drama. We also decided that we would rewrite the scenes, so that there was more entertainment going on, we decided to include a major issue among young people at the moment, and drew up teenage pregnancy, as well as the university decision. I feel that in doing this we can relate even more to our targeted audience, and at the same time make the audience remain interested in listening to our radio drama, whilst capturing their attention.

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT DIAGRAMS


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The codes and conventions of other radio dramas analysis

I have decided to listen to two different radio dramas and see how they have used in specific; sound effects, voice, music and silence in their radio dramas. I will be looking at "The Twilight Zone : The Lateness of the Hour" and "The Archers: (7th October)".

I will first start off by analysing the production of The Twilight Zone episode. The episode begins with the theme tune, i recall as "Out of Limits by the Marketts" this spooky but characteristic music immediately screams a horror, spooky type radio drama.

The narrator then speaks in this over powering voice to introduce the show, and also throughout the show speaks inbetween scenes to describe the room, and mis-en-scéne, this is effective in building an image of the surrounds around the room and makes you feel involved in the radio drama as you are able to be told the specific details involved i.e. 'A beautiful home, designed for comfort and convinience.'

Actors speak with rising and falling intonation, cleverly makes their sentences roll off their tongue, music playing in the background helps to build the tension when things are happening, also the speed that the actors talk helps to do this. I feel that i can also in some way see how their paralinguistic feature that are being used, and their facial features. Dialect is Recieved pronounciation, aswell as the extended use of vocabulary, i.e 'Beverage', which is an older term for a 'drink', helps me to believe that their target audience is the older generation that would relate to the use of words such as that.

The sound effects are all ones which you would expect to hear when watching a film, very descriptive, footsteps, shuffling, door opening and closing, kitchen utensils moving around etc. This gives a developed way of setting the scene, and if the drama was stripped of this, im sure it would be no where near as developed.

The second radio drama that I am analysing is an episode of "The Archers". From the beginning of this radio drama i can already seen the difference between this episode and the "Twilight Zone". For a start the episode starts off with a cheery "theme tune" that lasts for a limited couple of seconds, so im not sure if that would be called a theme tune.

There is no introduction to the episode which seems very informal and unprofessional. The episode seems like I am listening to a phonecall, or a conversation between three people, therefore I am finding it difficult to build any images on the characters/mis-en-scéne. Silence is used to differenciate between the scenes. I also believe that this radio drama is for the older generation as there is not alot going on, and the characters all seem to be older.

There is a very limited use of sound effects, which isn't good as I can't build any of the details of the scene using my imagination. i.e. Moving car sounds and cups banging.

This radio drama is a vast difference to "The Twilight Zone" Personally i enjoyed the first radio drama alot more than the second, this is mostly because of the sound effects, how the characters communicated and the narrator helped to target the audience and involve them in the storyline, as though giving them secrets to the scene, and what to expect. This analysis has helped me to understand what a good radio drama should conclude of, and what it shouldn't. I will be using similar conventions to "The Twilight Zone"in order to attempt to make it much more of a radio drama, rather than a conversation.

My ancillary texts: Radio newspaper advertisement & Radio listings page

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Comment on the following four elements of radio production and how these informed the creation of your radio drama.

In order for you to fully see the extent of using silence, sound effects, voice and music, I will be including "before and after" clips along with this post so that you can judge for yourself which sounds best.

Sound Effects:
The sound effects used in our radio drama was extremely important, if they were not there the radio drama would not have the same effect on the target audience, it would just be people talking. Using sound effects helps to set the scene and build up the imagination of the audience as they are listening to the radio drama, comparing this to an episode of the Archers, i feel that the producers of this radio drama should definately use lots more sound effects and music, as i find it hard to relate to the characters, after this experience i have made there no possibility for this to happen with my own radio drama.

Voice:
Voice also plays a major part towards a radio drama in my opinion, if the script was read as though it was a book, this would not have any effect on the target audience, this is completely wrong for something that relys on the use of hearing in order to build images in the audiences imagination. Using the correct intonation and stress at certain points of the script are essential in making the drama more like a "drama" and less like an audio book.

Music:
Our radio drama originally didn't include any music, but after revamping the whole script and radio drama over, I feel that we will include music of some kind, but I also have to take into account our genre, as it is realsitic, when your talking to someone you don't have a setting of music, therefore we will not be using music throughout the drama, but just as a theme tune at the beginning. We will also have to take into account copyright laws when choosing a piece of music.

Silence:
Our radio drama uses a couple of seconds silence inbetween the scenes in order to make the scene change easy to differenciate. In doing this i believe that our radio drama had a quite clear discourse and therefore it was easy for our target audience to understand and follow. I also felt that if we used silence during a scene it would not have made sense with our genre, as in real life, people do not normally pause for 20 seconds after saying something, for effect generally. However if our genre was different, im sure that silence would be an effective way of stressing an extreme part of the script.

Describe how you had to consider elements such as cues, and styles when writing your script.

When starting our radio drama, we really had to get into our characters heads, and write the script as the characters would see fit, this would include using your imagination of how the scene would be set out if it were on television. Our radio drama, 'Decisions' is based on a decision a girl has to make about wether she will go to her dream uni, or to attend an average uni with her ever so loving boyfriend Ethan, but not only that she has found out that she is pregnant, and this is causing her some very hard decisions. Taking this into account, we decided that to best hit the nail on the head with our script, we would have to write our script in a way to be most realistic. An example of this reflected in our work
' BEN: (OFF) Two beers please mate. ETHAN: You alright then mate? Haven’t seen you in a while.'
I feel that the informality in this quote best describes the style that our script was written in, almost conversational. I feel that in doing this simple trick, that we have best targeted our ideal audience for this radio drama.

I think that the fact that we were a mixed group of girls and a boy also helped towards the development of our script, as we had a balanced opinion of how the males and females within our script should be acting and talking, as we are all around the age of the characters in the script, we could base them around our own dilemas that we face within our own daily lives.

The style that we have stuck by within our script has been one based on 'Realistic' language. In order to do this we have had to play out the character roles, and learn how we think they would talk and act. We decided that as our radio drama was based around university, that our radio drama would appeal to people around this age group, people who want to go to uni in the future, or people who are currently deciding which uni offer to take up. This has reflected in our script, as we had to use language to relate to the audience. An example of this would be 'Alright mate hows it going', i feel that this works better than say if we used 'Hello there my friend how are you' I believe that the second example that i have stated is a much more dated phrase that would only really be used by an older generation. This is how we shaped our radio drama, always taking into account if our targeted audience would understand the language, and if they would be interested in it.

We used cues in our script in order to remember where we would be putting the Sound effects, where we would need to change our intonation of voice, stress, tone etc. Also music in our radio drama. An example of this in our work is

"BEN AND ETHAN ARE APPROACHING A BAR TALKING ABOUT ELISA’S PREGNANCY. SOUND EFFECTS: PEOPLE TALKING, CUPS BANGING AND STEADY BAR-LIKE MUSIC JUST IN THE BACKGROUND

DOORS OPEN TO PUB AND FOOTSTEPS. STALL SCRAPING"

I feel that in doing this it really helped us when editing our radio drama, as we remembered exactly where we needed the editing doing, we would just be able to find it in the recording. This also helped us to organise the majority of the scene before it was actually produced.

Analyse your genre and make comparisons with alternative media formats

The genre that we had chosen for our radio drama was "Realistic". We felt that radio dramas, although must be dramatic, would also have to be realstic in order for the audience to relate to the characters, and storyline. Although our genre was "realistic" we decided that even though we wanted our audience to sympathise and connect with the characters, we decided that having a radio drama set on a realistic storyline was not good enough, as our target audience would become bored and uninterested in what was happening in the scene, because of this we decided to exaggerate the storyline a bit and therefore result in two major parts would happen in this particular episode. We also knew that because we were only making one snippet from an episode, we would have to create our radio drama in a way that would make the audience feel as if they knew the characters from the start, this meant introducing the characters as if it were the beginning of a new radio drama.

If we were to change our radio drama into a film there would be many boundries that we would have to cross, we would have to look at costume designs, facial expressions, visual effects, camera effects, and the mis-en-scéne. This would overall make the story alot more complex and would take a much more extended time to recreate the drama for a screen viewing. This varies to the effects used on radio which involves sound effects, voice, intonation, stress, tone, silence and music. Therefore i feel that a radio drama is alot less complex and relys much more on a good storyline. A radio drama could also be seen as an advantage as the audience would be able to build up their own perceptions of how the scene would look, and how the characters would look through the effects used, but putting this drama into a film, these points have already been decided and put into action. We would look at films like The Notebook and teen based movies like "She's all that" to make sure that we would correctly target our audience.

Similarly, if we put our radio drama into book format we would have to make the writing much more complex and descriptive, not only that we would face many dilemas of the audience being able to build on the characters, scenes and speech through words. If we were to put our radio drama "decisions" into book format, i assume we would look at a chick flick style book for example something by Jill Mansell or Sophie Kinsella.

An introduction to Radio Drama

Radio drama is a form of storytelling by the ear, which is broadcast on the radio. Without any visual effects, we all have to use our minds to build an image of what characters will look like, and how the scene would look. The Drama depends on music, silence, voice, a good storyling and sound effects to help the listener to build an image of the story. Radio drama was popular within a multiple years of its initial introduction in the 1920s. Even by the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the introduction of television in the 1940's however, radio drama as lost quite a majority of its popularity.

Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_drama