Study two radio dramas
Sci-fi drama Mood board:
3-5 Sci-fi drama ideas:
- Super hero
- Robot takeover – apocalypse
- Time travel – assassin going back to alter the present day.
- Man and woman alone in an abandoned, destroyed city – trying to find anyone that survived the apocalypse, under attack all the time.
Discuss story and characters and settings;
In our group we discussed several different plot and story ideas. On of them was an infection on Mars. Another was crew members where stuck on a ship with the oxygen supply at critical the only way out was pods but there where to many people on the ship. In our group we decided to tie both ideas together.
There were infected people on Mars and a ship comes to save the people who are surviving on Mars. They run into problems with the infected people and go through many dangerous tasks. One of the settings as it is a Sci-fi is Mars. The reason for this is because its a radio drama anything is possible as there is nothing visual about radio drams.
P2.
Script draft
Feedback from (Sam):
- The first paragraph dragged on a little bit.
- Hook the audience in by using sound effects.
- The characters statuses are very clearly shown even without describing them.
- Cut some of the narration out about what they are doing as no one can see it. Use sounds instead.
- Use dialogue to show the setting instead of description.
P3.
Plan and Pitch
Feedback on my pitch:
- My group told me that my idea was very good and had a great storyline and the main points of my story where clear.
- They also said that it sounded really good and they would want to make my script into a radio TV drama.
- They said my pitch was organised well, very detailed but had short snappy points which worked.
- Also they said it was feasible because I had my character voice actors all figured ut and the idea of getting sound all done.
- They said I spoke clearly and had good eye contact as I wasn't looking down or anything.
- Also they said that I was very good at answering and responding to questions.
Treatment with moodboard
Treatment with poster
A5 poster advert
Music to fit the drama
P4.
Survival presentation
Sample script
Presentation video
Feedback sheet
Summarised feedback on pitch:
- What year was it set in?
- Details on characters = many comments on that
- More detail on storyline
- Opening news report
- More characters introduced
- What type of people will like the radio drama
- Make powerpoint look pretty
Other than that everyone thought that the genre was very clear, the story was clearly aimed at our target audience and the story was easy to follow.
P5.
Production Plan:
Merit:
Draft 2 of the script - link
- Super hero
- Robot takeover – apocalypse
- Time travel – assassin going back to alter the present day.
- Man and woman alone in an abandoned, destroyed city – trying to find anyone that survived the apocalypse, under attack all the time.
Discuss story and characters and settings;
In our group we discussed several different plot and story ideas. On of them was an infection on Mars. Another was crew members where stuck on a ship with the oxygen supply at critical the only way out was pods but there where to many people on the ship. In our group we decided to tie both ideas together.
There were infected people on Mars and a ship comes to save the people who are surviving on Mars. They run into problems with the infected people and go through many dangerous tasks. One of the settings as it is a Sci-fi is Mars. The reason for this is because its a radio drama anything is possible as there is nothing visual about radio drams.
P2.
Script draft
Feedback from (Sam):
- The first paragraph dragged on a little bit.
- Hook the audience in by using sound effects.
- The characters statuses are very clearly shown even without describing them.
- Cut some of the narration out about what they are doing as no one can see it. Use sounds instead.
- Use dialogue to show the setting instead of description.
P3.
Plan and Pitch
Feedback on my pitch:
- My group told me that my idea was very good and had a great storyline and the main points of my story where clear.
- They also said that it sounded really good and they would want to make my script into a radio TV drama.
- They said my pitch was organised well, very detailed but had short snappy points which worked.
- Also they said it was feasible because I had my character voice actors all figured ut and the idea of getting sound all done.
- They said I spoke clearly and had good eye contact as I wasn't looking down or anything.
- Also they said that I was very good at answering and responding to questions.
Treatment with moodboard
Treatment with poster
Music to fit the drama
P4.
Survival presentation
Sample script
Feedback sheet
Summarised feedback on pitch:
- What year was it set in?
- Details on characters = many comments on that
- More detail on storyline
- Opening news report
- More characters introduced
- What type of people will like the radio drama
- Make powerpoint look pretty
Other than that everyone thought that the genre was very clear, the story was clearly aimed at our target audience and the story was easy to follow.
P5.
Production Plan:
a) Recording date(s) and time(s)
29th April: 1pm-2pm, 3pm-3.30pm
4th May: 10am-10:30am, 10:45am-11:15am
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Product launch date
June 3rd
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Why that date
The Friday during May half term, it’s the time that college and universities are off timetable so it is available to the mid demographic.
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b) Resources and equipment needed
Microphones (Zoom mic), recording equipment, audio editing software (Adobe Audition), studio, voice actors.
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c) Personnel/cast/crew and roles/jobs
Cast
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Character
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Kacper Balkota
Adam Holland
Daniel Welch
Daniel Pritchard
Sam Tindall
Charlie Brett
Adam Holland
Daniel Pritchard
Daniel Welch
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Gavin
Martin
Worker 1
Worker 2
Boss
Skip
Captain
Ship
Pilot 1
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Crew
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Role
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Sam Tindall
Adam Holland
Sam Tindall
Sam Tindall
Adam Holland
Kacper Balkota
Daniel Welch
Daniel Pritchard
Charlie Brett
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Director
Producer
Writer
Actor
Actor
Actor
Actor
Actor
Actor
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d) Budget
If professional
10,000 per hour episode - Hiring actors and paying for equipment and booking out quiet places for recording.
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If student
A very small budget, we don't need to pay for anything, equipment and props provided & we have consent forms from the voice actors within our group.
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Issue
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Resolved by…
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Strong language
Racial language or words References to companies or brands Needing to have diverse characters Copyright |
We scheduled it to air after water shed.
We had one reference like this in our script so we cut it from the script. The original script had diverse characters although as this was a student project we didn't find the time to hire anybody for this so we had to make changes and just use what we had.
Any sounds and/or music we get for our radio drama will be un-copyrighted.
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Merit:
How did you take into account season or calendar events when planning your launch date?
- We planned our launch date for Friday 3rd June because of it being May half term and therefore Colleges, Universities, Sixth forms and secondary schools will be off for holiday allowing them to have the time off to listen in on our radio drama launch and leading up to it they will have the time to notice the advertising and will know when our launch date is, overall we planned our launch date at a time suitable for our target audience by taking into account calendar events for schools and this helped us decide the final launch date.
How are your timescales, launch date and budget realistic and feasible?
Our project is feasible with the budget because as this is a student project we need no budget because we have the recording equipment already available to us and we only had 6 characters in our script and we had enough voice actors within our group to do it without having to hire voice actors, in the end we just got permission from each group member so that we could use them in the radio drama. Our launch date is feasible because it is a new radio drama played on a Friday night for young adults to listen to, this would be normal for this time and date as it is a time where many young adult viewers can listen in and this means that it has the potential to be very successful, also this time slot isn't taken by any other radio drama and therefore we would be able to have it on.
Distinction:
Distinction:
Contingency plan
- If a voice actor is ill and can't be there for recording - Record a different day or get a new voice actor.
- If the recording room is booked already - Book another time slot or see if another room can be used instead.
- Script is not finished for the recording - Wait until it has been complete, work as a team to get it done together or record anyway and just try out different lines.
- Loud noises in the background (people talking, walking, door slams etc.) - Record another time, ask people politely if they can be quiet, put a sign up saying recording in progress or let the rooms near us know that we are recording.
Revise pre-production based on feedback
I revised my pre-production based on the script and treatment based on the feedback I got and the changes I made where;
Treatment changes:
- Wrote what year it was set in.
- Put a few more details on the main two characters plus a little description of two more characters.
- I added another few things about the storyline and what it leads on to.
- I put more information on the target audience slide about who specifically would like it and what type of person they would be.
- I also added some more pictures to each slide and a bit of colour.
Script changes:
- Corrected all grammar and spelling mistakes.
- Added a few more sound effects and parentheticals.
- Changed lines so that they where easier and more natural for people to say.
- Took out any unnecessary lines.
- Changed the characters so that instead of about 8 different voice actors it became 5 or 6 as I worked out who could play two or more characters and that it would make sense to combine two different characters as one because of how similar they are and that they are in different scenes.
Draft 2 of the script - link
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