Elements of Radio Production

Theme Tune

we used a backing track of a popular song "Shut Up & Drive" by Rihanna as our theme tune and also put some exciting sound effects over the top of the song to get our listeners ready for the show, we also used it to cut our recording into sections so it would not confuse our listeners. We used these links to make sure our drama was easy to listen to and to ensure our story was easy to understand throughout.

Sound Effects

We used a lot of different sound effects when we were making our radio drama, there was a large selection of effects built into the program we used to build our drama, the program was called called Soundtrack Pro. Sometimes we could not find the right sound effect we wanted to we used the internet to find different sound effects that would sound better in our recording. Sound effects were important when we were creating our drama because with radio there are no visuals, so the understanding of our story depends on what the listener hears. We used sound effects to help aid our listener to understand what our characters were doing, where they were and how they felt during our story.

Voice

Music

We used music in many different ways when we were producing our radio drama, theme tunes were used to show the start and end of our recording however we also used music to create atmosphere in the locations our characters were during the story. In one scene the group of friends are having a drink in there favorite bar "The Walkabout" to create the atmosphere that they were in a bar we used quiet background music as well as sound effects of a crowd and drinks being poured and moved around. We also used music to express the emotion of our characters in one scene the character I play is talking about the down sides in her life at the moment and is thinking about suicide, whilst she is talking about that we put some slow/sad music in the background to help our listeners to understand that I am meant to be upset.

Silence

As our drama was in the same style as a "soap" would be on TV we decided it would be important to use moments of silence in our recording to build up tension on what was going to happen next. Also silence was used to show a break between scenes and helped our listener understand that the scene has changed and different characters could be in different locations.