Formatted Script
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
- ensure it fits with relevant seasonal or calendar event
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.
P2.
Location recce & outcomes for survival:
When recording we are using the room D113 at long road as we were able to book it out for recording, it has a few tables which means we can have the zoom microphones on the table instead of having to hold them. The room is large enough to fit all 5 of us and it didn’t have a bad echo in the room so it is perfect for our recording of the dialogue. The room wasn’t too cramped and wasn’t too warm or cold and was good for the voice actors to use.
The second room was smaller and had more of an echo but it worked for the dialogue, the scenes where the characters are in a smaller space is more convincing. There was seating in the room so the voice actors were comfortable however the table in the room was below the level of the chairs meaning they had to hold the zoom microphone or lean forward uncomfortably to speak into it if it was on the table.
Risks and hazards and solutions
P3.
Legal and ethical issues for Survival:
Survival is a radio drama, our group has no diversity and therefore all speak the same, to make it more ethical we have used different accents for different characters although apart from that we cant resolve the issue. However there aren’t any characters of other ethnicities and race, this is because we couldn't get actors to play these roles through our own fault.
The radio drama doesn’t feature themes such as terrorism, violence or law breaking in any scenes. This radio drama has swearing within it, we have toned it down so there it isn't as bad although we have kept some because it helps make our drama better as it fits the characters who swear in the script, to solve this issue we have decided to target a minimum audience of 15 so it is suitable and we have also chose to put it on at 9pm so there shouldn't be underaged people listening to it. We need to get permission from actors to use their voices in our drama, this will be fine as I have got each actor to sign a model release form.
legal & ethical issues & how you resolved them
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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P4.
How we followed the production process
We followed the typical production process for a radio drama by first brainstorming and coming up with the idea, then writing a script, everyone in the group wrote a script each and we decided on which script we should put forward and produce. After choosing our favourite script we figured out what voices we will need and decided on who will voice each character, this was easy to decide as we had enough people in the group to voice the characters. The next step in the production process was to record the dialogue, we did this in a quiet room using a zoom mic. After we recorded the dialogue, we listened through it to check for any bad recordings or mistakes, we went to re-record some dialogue that was bad so that we could improve our radio drama which is what we planned to do if there was any problems with the dialogue. Once we got all the dialogue recorded, the only thing that was left to do was to put it all together and edit the final piece, we did this using an audio editing software called 'Adobe Audition'. Once the editing was finished we exported the final piece and uploaded it online.
How did we follow safe working practices?
When recording the dialogue for our radio drama we made sure the area had no hazards, we made sure there was no bags, cables or equipment on the floor so there was no risk of tripping. We also tested the equipment to make sure it worked before we went for example making sure there was memory on the SD card and that the zoom mic had full charge. The chairs and tables in the rooms were all safe and secure so they didn't cause any hazards. We made sure we were all sat down and we weren't moving around, this was because it was easier to record and it prevented any incidents.
When recording the foley sounds we made sure we weren't doing anything dangerous to get the sound effects, for example instead of going to a construction site which has many hazards we recorded separate sounds with different objects then we put them together.
Sound effects
Final script
P5
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