Thursday, November 3, 2016

Radio Drama

One thing that i will look at for this project is radio drama's as they effectively use sound to tell granted they are able to use actors and dialogue but sound on its own do play important roles in drama as well.


So what is Radio Drama?


Radio Drama is classed as a dramatized purely sound based performance broadcast and made for radio (or in recent history has branched out into just audio drama and can be heard on CDscassette tapespodcastswebcasts) These drama obviously have no visual component and heavily depend on dialogue, music and sound to tell stories to the listener and help with the image of the characters and locations "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension." Tim Cook


How are stories told?

Radio drama is the most intimate way a writer or creator can have with their audience, and yet it can also cheaply create anything that you can imagine. 
The pictures are better on radio. There's nothing you can't do, nowhere you can't go, and nothing that looks 'cheap'. Nobody will say that they can't afford to build that set, or the lighting's not quite right, or that the bad weather is going to delay production for days. The true 'budget' is that spent between you and the listener - the cost of two imaginations combined, so if you want to do Sci-fi go ahead or if you want to do a western but have no place to film than radio's for you. 

So How do They Use Sound?

Due to sound being a prominent part of this drama it takes the place of describing the scene usually as ways to create is do through sound. Take the example below





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