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.