Types of radio plays - fictional genres

Realism - slice-of-life? raw realism? more stylised?	Adaptation A radio play that takes a novel, play, or film other text as its source. It uses story events, characters, settings, and other elements, and then translates them to the medium of sound.	Soap or radio serial drama	cops and robbers or crims or Brit-crim or gangster
Non-realism	'Dear Diary' play and Audio Diary including change-of-life woman protagonist	Monologue or Linked Monologues	rom-com (romantic comedy)
Drama-documentary - mixing audio recorded from the Lifeworld (real world), such as interviews, and fictional scenes.	Segment (radio drama)	Experimental	vampires
Feature - including fiction (radio drama) elements	Improvised and 'scratch' radio drama	Comedy	ghosts
Soundscape	Experimental - as, for example, wordless radio piece	Spy thriller	Slasher and horror
comedy - carry-on	Religious	Western	'Film noir'
musical	children's interest	sports	war
domestic comedy or mixed comedy-serious (often woman partner protagonist)	'screwball comedy'	musical biography	fairy tale
'survival story' (war, safari, and disaster)	'fantastic genres', including fantasy, horror and science fiction	Allegory - an extended metaphor, working on two levels - the plot events AND meanings external to the play	Allegory with animal characters

Genre - groups of plays such as a 'thriller', a 'horror'

NOW - make a Storyboard - layout of scenes and details - how to make it work for you

FOR ACADEMIC STUDY OF GENRE

Chandler's site at http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/intgenre/intgenre6.html

Genre theory links at http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Sections/textan03.html

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