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.