interiorizing - the voice in the mind

The voice in the mind - and radio drama is very good at going inside the mind. This internal voice is more fully private and subjective.

How to - in production:

Best as position one or position two at the microphone

in a neutral acoustic

We hear all the detail and colour of the voice.

It is a difficult technique for director and actor - and well worth doing.

It is recommended to work the actor in position one or position two.

If you put the actor in position three, you avoid the problems of blasting and popping, but you have lost the main benefit of the voice in the mind.

You have not worked within the convention of this.

You are not giving your audience that contrast in acoustic and characterisation, and that journey deep into the voice in the mind.

Your actor also has to work in a different way - going into the mind. Depending on the script (and the script has to be written for this technique), the voice in the mind is searching, and revelatory.

Research this convention. Listen to BBC radio plays and discover this. Appreciate the different quality of sound and voice (different acoustic). This is not realist dialogue.

Academic discussion:

Often met in the radio play as the interiorizing monologue (the voice in the mind or what film terms 'internal focalization'), through cross-cutting the monologue with realistic dialogue (a technique at which BBC producer Jeremy Mortimer is particularly skilled) and also through distanciating devices.

 

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Production issues in detail

atmos and soundscapes	double frame - triple frame	clustering
underscoring music - fighting the dialogue
		'Will you turn that music down!' 18-second rule
drop-ins	sound pictures	memorability
number the scenes carefully with a system		time-space rule or jump cut

 

 

 

 

 

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