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Analysing radio drama
address - defines whom the speaker is addressing
 Adaptations
Dialect or accent
 Addition of extra sounds (speech problem)
 Radio apparatus theory
 Aurality as central to radio theory
 Aural Paradise
 
 
 A - PRODUCTION
Acoustic - the way sound behaves in a particular environment
 Advice - Your work as a radio drama director
 Atmos bed (underneath the scene dialogue) - establishes scene location or scenery
 Acoustics - Darren Copeland's Ten Questions for a Listener - comments - learning about sound and listening
 
 A - Acting
 Acting - some key terms
 Acting - Summary of what the actor must achieve, from Felner, Free To Act:
 OBJECTIVE - What the character is trying to achieve
 Taking a scene apart
 
 
 
 A - Scripts
 'The Ark' - introduction (Training Script)
 
 
 AUDITIONS
 AUDITION PIECES FOR ROUND ONE
 RADIO SPOTLIGHT BOOK or AUDITIONS BOOK
 Short introduction to Auditions
 AUDITIONS - further advice (Auditions 2)
 AUDITIONS - MOST OF THE ADVICE ABOUT AUDITIONS (Auditions 3)
 REJECTION LETTER (for auditionees)
 Test 1 - 'In the restaurant' (audition reading)
 Test 2 - 'Diana and her treasures' (audition reading)
 Test 3 - 'Janice and Victor' (audition reading)
 Test 4 - 'Diana on stage' (Audition reading)
 
 
 Kate Adshead, 'Hanging', 20-9-2002, Friday Play 1', BBC Radio 4

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 Broadway (monologue script)
 Bibliography - Radio Drama Reading List
 
 BBC
 BBC Editorial Guidelines
 See also Swear words - exclamations - profanities (SUBSTITUTES)

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 chaining sentences
 closure or ending of the play
 Copyright - main guidance
 Credits in the radio play
 Creative Exercises
 Close-up - making some dialogue section more intimate
 Cocktail Party Effect
 Darren Copeland's Ten Questions for a Listener - comments - learning about sound and listening
 
 
 C - SCRIPTS
 Colour Lands (training script - music choices)
 
 C - TECHNIQUES
 SOUND CENTRE
 
 

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 Description or added words in the dialogue to fill in what is 'blind' for the listener
 Diegetic within the story world of the play) and nondiegetic (without a source in the story)
 DISCLAIMER
Dialect or accent
 
 D - DIRECTING
 Directing - Advice - Your work as a radio drama director
 Directing - SEVEN tasks (allocations) - production and post-production
Directing - Swear words - exclamations - profanities (SUBSTITUTES)
 Close-up - making some dialogue section more intimate
 Getting PRESENCE into the scene - the sense of a character being 'in'
 
 
 
 D - SCRIPTS
  Dragon - training script (thriller)
 
 STUDYING INDIVIDUAL PLAYS
 John Dryden, 'Hotel Europa', 7-10-2000 and (repeated) 13-4-2001, B.B.C. R4, Friday Play 1 hour

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 economy rule - each sound must have cause, effect, source
 ESTABLISH OUTSIDE SCENE (technique)
 ESTABLISH SCENE AT TOP
 
 EXPERIMENTAL radio drama pieces
 'The Egg-stremists' - training script (Spot effects)
 ENTRAINMENT (and RESONANCE)
 Epistemology (theory)
 Extra-radio world (theory)
 
 ESSAY
 Essay writing - general advice
 Essay - some specific issues
 

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 Filmic - styles of radio drama directing and post-production which creatively relate to film
 Filmic - Perspective explained by film shot analogy
 Filmic - Close-up - making some dialogue section more intimate
 FORMALISM
 F - SCRIPTS
 Face it - monologue script

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 Genre
 Types of radio plays (genres)
 Glossary
 Get a new pair of ears to listen to your post-production work
 
 

 

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 hook
 Hopes - monologue script
 John Dryden, 'Hotel Europa', 7-10-2000 and (repeated) 13-4-2001, B.B.C. R4, Friday Play 1 hour
 Kate Adshead, 'Hanging', 20-9-2002, Friday Play 1', BBC Radio 4
 
 

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 interiorizing - the voice in the mind

 INTRODUCTION - Step 1 - SOME OPENING STATEMENTS - Step 1
 Internalist Model of the senses (academic)
 INTENSIFYING THE MOMENT - discover the intense moments within your scenes
 
 

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LISTENING
Listening - how people listen
  Listening - Cocktail Party Effect
 Listening as a secondary activity - see audiences (reception theory)
 Listening - sound paradise for the listener
 Darren Copeland's Ten Questions for a Listener - comments - learning about sound and listening
 
 
 L - OTHER ISSUES
  logocentric - Radio drama as language - based
 
 
 LIFEWORLD
 
 Looking - Oculocentrism or ocularocentrism (theory)
 
 STUDYING INDIVIDUAL PLAYS
 Doug Lucie, 'Small Earthquake', 3-5-2002, Friday Play 1', pr Janet Whitaker

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 microphone positions
Master Narrative theorising (the flight from) - see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it?
Middle-range theorising - see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it?
 Radio drama dialogue is much more than the words on the page
 technique - 'moving camera' or 'we go with' or 'mise en scène' 'shot'
 Music
 'Music Theory' - monologue script
 Internalist Model of the senses
 
 
 MONTAGE
  montage
 Montage - definition and creative exercises
 
 MONOLOGUES
  Monologues
 Directing the Monologue - scripts
 Directing the Monologue - advice 1
 Directing the Monologue - Questions for the director and actor
 Advice - Your work as a radio drama director
 
 STUDYING PLAYS
 David and Caroline Stafford, 'The Men Are From ….', 18-7-2002, Afternoon Play, producer Marc Jobst (repeat), BBC Radio 4
 Gregory Whitehead, 'The Marilyn Room', broadcast 25-5-2001 and 11-10-2002, B.B.C. R4, Friday Play, 1 hour, directed by Gregory Whitehead

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 naming
 Narrative
 Narrator
 Noise

 Nondiegetic - Diegetic within the story world of the play) and nondiegetic (without a source in the story)
 

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 'Ouija Board' or 'I vant to be alone' - training script (acoustics)
 Oculocentrism or ocularocentrism (theory)
 
 
 
 
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 Point of listening = POL
 Prologue
 protagonist-dominated structure
 Perceptual filling-in
 
P - SCRIPTS
 'Pillow Talk' - monologue script
  'Pontiac' - monologue script
 
 P - PRODUCTION & POST-PRODUCTION
 Seven Production Steps
 SEVEN tasks (allocations) - production and post-production
Perspective
 PRODUCTION - 'Rehearse-record' - production method in the Studio
 PRODUCTION - 'Rehearse all - then record' - PRODUCTION METHOD
 Perspective explained by film shot analogy
 Getting PRESENCE into the scene - the sense of a character being 'in'
 THREE PHASES OF PRODUCTION
 POST-PRODUCTION - introduction
 Get a new pair of ears to listen to your post-production work
 Underscoring music versus FXs
 P - ISSUES
 PARADISE - sound paradise for the listener
 Phenomenology (theory)
 

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 quarter-layering - STYLISH SLIGHT REPEATING KEY PHRASES UNDER EACH OTHER (technique)
 Use QUESTIONS - 'HOW DO I' - to navigate this site.
 
 
 
 

 

 

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 Radio drama dialogue is much more than the words on the page
 radio drama - various techniques
 Analysing radio drama
 'The Revenge' - radio play without words, written and performed by Andrew Sachs in 1978
 Radio theory - what is it for?
 Realism
 RADIO SPOTLIGHT BOOK or AUDITIONS BOOK
 REJECTION LETTER (for auditionees)
Bibliography - Radio Drama Reading List
R - RESEARCH
 RESEARCH - INTRODUCTION
 Radio apparatus theory
 Radio theory is more than culturalism - see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it?
 Master Narrative theorising (the flight from) - see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it?
 What does radio theory deal with? - see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it?
 Aurality as central to radio theory
 
 
 
 R - SCRIPTS
  'Revolution' - monologue script
 
  R - TECHNIQUES
R -  VOCAL PROBLEM - PRONOUNCING 'R' - rhotacism (speech problem)
 Reverberation (echo)
 'rehearse-record' method
 'Rehearse all - then record' - PRODUCTION METHOD

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 SCRIPTS
See also the SCRIPTING ADVICE in the RADIO SOAP WEB SITE at http://www.savoyhill.co.uk/soap/index.html
 
 'The Ark' - introduction (Training Script)
'The Ark' - SCRIPT - text
'The Ark' - PRODUCTION NOTES
Broadway (monologue script)
 Colour Lands (training script - music choices)
 Dragon - training script (thriller)
 'The Egg-stremists' - training script (Spot effects)
 Face it - monologue script
 Hopes - monologue script
 Teen Horror - monologue script
 Directing the Monologue - scripts
 'Music Theory' - monologue script
 'Ouija Board' or 'I vant to be alone' - training script (acoustics)
 'Pillow Talk' - monologue script
 'Pontiac' - monologue script
 'Revolution' - monologue script
 'Teen Dreams' - monologue script
 Test 1 - 'In the restaurant' (audition reading)
 Test 2 - 'Diana and her treasures' (audition reading)
 Test 3 - 'Janice and Victor' (audition reading)
 Test 4 - 'Diana on stage' (Audition reading)
 'Warm Up Act' - training script
 'We go with - ' - training script
 'Wrap Pack' - Scenes 1-1-2, 1-1-4 one male, one female (Jack, Sarah)
 'Wrap Pack' 1-2-3 - two males (Jack and Colin)
 'Wrap Pack' 1-3-5 - two males, one female (Jack, Colin, Olivia)
 'Wrap Pack' 1-4-1 - one female, one male (Olivia, Colin)
 'Wrap Pack' 2.2.5 - Olivia + Jack + Colin
 
 SCENE
  scene boundaries
 scene boundaries - more
  scene structure
 ESTABLISH SCENE AT TOP
 
 SIGNPOSTING
Signposting - establishing the location at the beginning of a scene
Signposting - further definition
 Signposting - more - Signposting and establishing location
 
 
 SILENCES
  silences - different sorts
  Silences and the overall design
 SOUND FILES
 FREE SOUND FILES
 
 
SOUND
Sound - sound effects - sound events
SOUND BOX - production sound effects archive
sound paradise for the listener
 Soundscapes
 Reverberation (echo)
 SOUND CENTRE
 Sound centre - see also Point of listening = POL
 Sound centre - see also Perspective explained by film shot analogy
 Becoming aware of sound events in radio plays
 Darren Copeland's Ten Questions for a Listener - comments - learning about sound and listening
 HANDBOOK FOR ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY by Barry Truax - key groundwork and terms for mapping the area of sound
 
 
 
 SPEECH
 Addition of extra sounds (speech problem)
 VOCAL PROBLEM - PRONOUNCING 'R' - rhotacism
 sigmatism - VOCAL PROBLEM - PRONOUNCING 'S'
 Slurring and stuttering (vocal problems)
 Swear words - exclamations - profanities (SUBSTITUTES)
 
 S - THEORY
 Semiotics
 Scruton question - Listening to a CD and broadcast - the same?
 
 
 S - ISSUES
 Soap Project
 Standard production
SEVEN tasks (allocations) - production and post-production
 Storyboard
 Seven Production Steps
  subtext
STUDENT - INTRODUCTION
 
 STUDYING INDIVIDUAL RADIO PLAYS
 Andy Rashleigh, 'Smokers', 10-9-2001, pr. Clive Brill, Afternoon Play
 John Dryden, 'Hotel Europa', 7-10-2000 and (repeated) 13-4-2001, B.B.C. R4, Friday Play 1 hour
 Doug Lucie, 'Small Earthquake', 3-5-2002, Friday Play 1', pr Janet Whitaker
 David and Caroline Stafford, 'The Men Are From ….', 18-7-2002, Afternoon Play, producer Marc Jobst (repeat), BBC Radio 4
 Gregory Whitehead, 'The Marilyn Room', broadcast 25-5-2001 and 11-10-2002, B.B.C. R4, Friday Play, 1 hour, directed by Gregory Whitehead
 Kate Adshead, 'Hanging', 20-9-2002, Friday Play 1', BBC Radio 4
 

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T - PRODUCTION AND POST-PRODUCTION
 technique - 'moving camera' or 'we go with' or 'mise en scène' 'shot'
 The Company of Wolves
THREE PHASES OF PRODUCTION
 
 HOW TO PRODUCE A 1- minute TRAIL
  Time-space rule or jump cut?
 top of scene (technique)
 top of the scene - more
 
 T - SCRIPTS
 Training scripts - 'The Ark', 'Ouija Board', Creative Exercises, Trail, Monologue, 'We Go With', 'Dragon', 'Colourlands', 'The Egg-Stremists', 'Warm Up Act'
 Teen Horror - monologue script
 'Teen Dreams' - monologue script
 Test 1 - 'In the restaurant' (audition reading)
 Test 2 - 'Diana and her treasures' (audition reading)
 Test 3 - 'Janice and Victor' (audition reading)
 Test 4 - 'Diana on stage' (Audition reading)
 Types of radio plays (genres)
 
 
 T - ISSUES
 Types of plays
 Theory - Radio theory - what is it for?
  Theory - what is it?
 Middle-range theorising - see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it?
 Master Narrative theorising (the flight from) - see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it?
 TERMS - Radio does not employ enough terms for discussing itself
 
 
 
 
 
 T - TEACHER
 TEACHER - INTRODUCTION - LESSON PLANS
 
 T - Theory
  What does radio theory deal with? - see - Radio theory - what is it for?
 Theory - what is it?
 The Company of Wolves - student project with teacher's commentary
 TEACHER - INTRODUCTION
 Marking criteria
 Taking a scene apart
 Theory - Semiotics
 Aurality as central to radio theory
 Radio theory is more than culturalism - see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it?
  Master Narrative theorising (the flight from) - see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it?
 Middle-range theorising - see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it?
 HANDBOOK FOR ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY by Barry Truax - key groundwork and terms for mapping the area of sound
 TERMS - Radio does not employ enough terms for discussing itself
 
 

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 record 'umms' from all the characters to store
 Underscoring music versus FXs
 
 
 
 

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VOICE
  Voice
  Voice - Dialect or accent
 Vocabulary of sound - Darren Copeland's Ten Questions for a Listener - comments - learning about sound and listening
 Visual - Oculocentrism or ocularocentrism (theory)
 
 

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 writing up your student project work (critique)
 word lobby and the sound brigade
 WELCOME PAGE
 Wolves - The Company of Wolves
 
 W - TECHNIQUES
 'We go with' - technique - 'moving camera' or 'we go with' or 'mise en scène' 'shot'
 
 
 
 W - SCRIPTS
 'Warm Up Act' - training script
 'We go with - ' - training script
 'Wrap Pack' - Scenes 1-1-2, 1-1-4 one male, one female (Jack, Sarah)
 'Wrap Pack' 1-2-3 - two males (Jack and Colin)
 'Wrap Pack' 1-3-5 - two males, one female (Jack, Colin, Olivia)
 'Wrap Pack' 1-4-1 - one female, one male (Olivia, Colin)
 'Wrap Pack' 2.2.5 - Olivia + Jack + Colin
 
 STUDYING INDIVIDUAL PLAYS
 Gregory Whitehead, 'The Marilyn Room', broadcast 25-5-2001 and 11-10-2002, B.B.C. R4, Friday Play, 1 hour, directed by Gregory Whitehead
 

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