Radio drama dialogue is much more than the words on the page

One of the most important challenges you have as a radio drama director is to create dialogue and movement, and convincing acting, that is more than the words on the page. The actors have to 'live' the words, and give them movement and life. You must not have 'stand and deliver acting' at the microphone.

See how to do this in Beck, Radio Acting, page 61 etc. And see there other sections about how physical radio acting is, and discussions about 'embodying'.

Embodying

I emphasise this challenge by using the term 'embodying the dialogue', meaning getting the character's body into the broadcast scene, and representing living in the vocal stream.

As a technique for this, see record 'umms' from all the characters to store

SEE Getting PRESENCE into the scene - the sense of a character being 'in'

CONTINUING THROUGH THE SITE:    to          SOUND BOX - production sound effects archive

Production issues in detail

	dialogue is more than words	SOUND BOX - production sound effects archive
atmos and soundscapes	double frame - triple frame	clustering
underscoring music - fighting the dialogue	Noise	'moving camera' technique
Music	montage	'Will you turn that music down!' 18-second rule
drop-ins	sound pictures	memorability
number the scenes carefully with a system	voice in the mind = interiorizing	time-space rule or jump cut

 

 

 

 

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