Production Diary

22nd October
As a group we decided on the plot , we based our story on Katie Price's book "Angel". We decided on the theme and the style. It took a little while as , as a group we couldn't make a decision. But finally we all agreed on a storyline.

5th November

During this lessons me and Steph research the issues in the book , such as depression , rape and suicide. We starting thinking of ideas of how to write the script and how the characters are going to be.

We chose the character names , Roxy , Belle , Joe and Max.

12th November

We started writing out our script for the previous episode we tried working as a group and doing it together but that was very hard, so we decided to do a section individually and then put it all together later.

19th November

We continued writing our script and putting it together , Chris had done loads of work but it didnt really fit in with the style of script that we had wrote , so we eddited it a bit and cut it up and put it in our script.

We then had a read through of our script just to make sure it sounded realistic.

3rd December

In this lesson we had to write out the suicide note , we found this really hard so i suggested that we all write a suicide letter each and then choose the best one. But they were all not that good , so we acted out as if it was a drama and then wrote down what we were saying and then we had our suicide note.

We also made the finishing touches to our script and printed them off , we had another read through.

10th December

Unfortunately the radio recording room was busy this week so we coudn't record so we decided to look at sound effects and have another read through of our script.

17th December

We recorded most of our drama , i thought this was lots of fun. I was the main character , i didn't want to be but the group persuaded me. I thought m group was really good as we put lots of emotion into the script.

7th January

We did last minute recording for the radio drama , we went through it lots of times because we kept messing up our lines. We also had to record a part again because the paper from our scripts was rusteling and it was in the background , so it wouldn't sound realistic. I never realised how much you have to think about when recording as there are so man noise around.

14th January-25th February

We started editing , i found it difficult at first , because we had recorded so much material as we had to keep starting again but after a while i got used to it and we cut it down to 7 minutes and we had it all in order.

We spent absolutely ages looking for the right sound effects , everyone had the same ideas in there head of how the wanted the radio drama to sound , so there was no arguemnts about what sound clip to use. Me and Steph spent a whole lesson looking for the themetune and music for in our radio production. I love Beyonce so i made sure we listened to her so i could convince the group to have one of her songs in our drama. It fitted in well. After that i had the song in my head and i kept singing "listen". Then i realised we didnt have a title for our radio drama then everyone said it should be called Listen!!!