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A - RESEARCH
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 Atmos - Darren Copeland's Ten Questions for a Listener - comments - learning about sound and listening Aesthetics - the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and value of art objects and experiences Audiences - reception theory - the listener actively constructs a story from the fictional data provided by the radio play Audiences - cognitive mapping - mental geography - navigating or orienteering through the fictional 'scenery' of radio drama - see Cognitive Mapping and Radio Drama by Alan Beck - Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume 1 Number 2, July 2000 (on this site) Acousmatic sound - sound events heard by the play characters, and by the listener, but not 'seen' - Point-of-listening 8
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Bibliography - Radio Drama Reading List B - RESEARCH
Blind medium of radio - Point-of-listening in radio plays - Beck, Alan, 1998, Sound Journal 2.2 Blind medium of radio - Beck, Alan, 1999, 'Is radio blind or invisible? A call for a wider debate on listening-in', World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE), electronic publication,
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Broadway (monologue script) BBC BBC Editorial Guidelines See also Swear words - exclamations - profanities (SUBSTITUTES) B - TECHNIQUE - PRODUCTION
Bed - atmos Budgets - Pre-production Back Story - characterisation
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Genre Types of radio plays (genres) Glossary Get a new pair of ears to listen to your post-production work Group dynamics - what goes right and avoiding the rest (RADIO SOAP SITE)
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H - PRODUCTION
hook Health and Safety H - SCRIPTS
Hopes - monologue script H - STUDYING PLAYS 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 H - RESEARCH
Horizontal axis - Linear manner of broadcast - 11.2 Linear - Cognitive Mapping and Radio Drama by Alan Beck - SECTION 11 Human-origin sounds, vocalised, non-vocalised - Darren Copeland's Ten Questions for a Listener - comments - learning about sound and listening
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quarter-layering - STYLISH SLIGHT REPEATING KEY PHRASES UNDER EACH OTHER (technique) Use QUESTIONS - 'HOW DO I' - to navigate this site.
R - RESEARCH
RESEARCH - INTRODUCTION 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 drama dialogue is much more than the words on the page Bibliography - Radio Drama Reading List 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 Reception theory - RESEARCH INTO RADIO DRAMA - INTRODUCTION Reception theory - Audiences (reception theory) Reception theory - Cognitive Mapping and Radio Drama by Alan Beck - monograph - SECTION 3 and 3.2 'Radio Audiences' for cognitive schemata (Branigan)
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T - TECHNIQUES
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record 'umms' from all the characters to store Underscoring music versus FXs
silences - different sorts Silences and the overall design
Slurring and stuttering (vocal problems) Swear words - exclamations - profanities (SUBSTITUTES)
Problem solving
Reverberation (echo) SOUND CENTRE Sound centre - see Point of listening = POL Sound centre - see Perspective explained by film shot analogy Sound centre - see Moving sound centre
Address - defines whom the speaker is addressing Adaptations Dialect or accent
Get a new pair of ears to listen to your post-production work Group dynamics - what goes right and avoiding the rest (RADIO SOAP SITE)
Bed - atmos Budgets - Pre-production
montage Montage - definition and creative exercises
microphone positions Moving sound centre technique - 'moving camera' or 'we go with' or 'mise en scène' 'shot' 'mise-en-scène' - techniques for the director to guide the listeners' perceptions
naming Narrative Narrator Noise
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VOICE Voice Voice - Dialect or accent V - RESEARCH
Vocabulary of sound - Darren Copeland's Ten Questions for a Listener - comments - learning about sound and listening Visual - Oculocentrism or ocularocentrism (theory) Visual - dominance of - Point-of-listening in radio plays - Beck, Alan, 1998, Sound Journal 4.2 Visual - Dangers of visually-based theoretical terms (as 'image') - warning by Alan Beck
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