get a new pair of ears to listen to your postproduction work
| Listen to your work in postproduction with sharp 'new' ears - ask someone else to listen too. |
| Get a "new pair of ears" to listen to the product in the making and involve them earlier on in the process of production. |
| If a student, get another in the class to listen to a scene, when you have first completed it (first draft). |
| You will become too familiar with the sound effects choices and balancing by this stage. This freshens your work. |
| You will also open yourself to comments on details which you have not appreciated before. |
STUDENT EMILY COMMENTS:
At times, it wasn't until Alan was listening to the final post produced scenes that we noticed words were slurred or incomprehensible.
The chemistry atmosphere for example, (which I recorded on location) had a hum (of the fans which are used in the lab) which sounded like a "threatening effect" to Alan.
I had not noticed that. By that point, I had heard the scene so many times, and was so familiar with it , that I was too close to the piece to appreciate this.
It is so important to have others listening to your work as you go, to get a fresher approach to the scene.
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Radio Soap (serial drama) - HOW TO MAKE IT
Five-minute episodes - or short episodes
Step by step instruction from Alan Beck.
Learn about radio drama on this site along with my book - Beck, Alan, Radio Acting, London: A & C Black (1997) ISBN 0-7136-4631-4
This is how to make a short-form soap - entertaining (above all) and you can include issues (issues that could influence the listeners' behaviour).
Further: production, scripting, web site, marketing, focus group meetings, drop-in script, copyright material logging, trails, soap launch.
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Radio Drama - directing, acting, technical, learning & teaching, researching, styles, genres
This is a complete curriculum of scripts, techniques, advice, sound files - effects and atmoses (with no copyright and so free to use), detailed script commentaries, etc. -
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