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.