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A - RESEARCH Analysing radio drama Address - defines whom the speaker is addressing Adaptations Dialect or accent Addition of extra sounds (speech problem) Radio apparatus theory Aurality as central to radio theory Aural Paradise Atmos - Darren Copeland's Ten Questions for a Listener - comments - learning about sound and listening Aesthetics - the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and value of art objects and experiences Audiences - reception theory - the listener actively constructs a story from the fictional data provided by the radio play Audiences - cognitive mapping - mental geography - navigating or orienteering through the fictional 'scenery' of radio drama - see Cognitive Mapping and Radio Drama by Alan Beck - Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume 1 Number 2, July 2000 (on this site) Acousmatic sound - sound events heard by the play characters, and by the listener, but not 'seen' - Point-of-listening 8
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Bibliography - Radio Drama Reading List B - RESEARCH Blind medium of radio - Point-of-listening in radio plays - Beck, Alan, 1998, Sound Journal 2.2 Blind medium of radio - Beck, Alan, 1999, 'Is radio blind or invisible? A call for a wider debate on listening-in', World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE), electronic publication,
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A - RESEARCH - Alan Beck Alan Beck's Key Theories on Radio and Sound B - SCRIPTS Broadway (monologue script) BBC BBC Editorial Guidelines See also Swear words - exclamations - profanities (SUBSTITUTES) B - TECHNIQUE - PRODUCTION Bed - atmos Budgets - Pre-production Back Story - characterisation
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F - FILMIC Filmic - styles of radio drama directing and post-production which creatively relate to film Filmic - Perspective explained by film shot analogy Filmic - Close-up - making some dialogue section more intimate Filmic - SOUND CENTRE - FIXED SOUND CENTRE - the centre of the sound picture remains fixed in the same place + MOVING SOUND CENTRE - 'we go with' FILM - RESEARCH Film - 'surplus of reality' - Point-of-listening in radio plays - Beck, Alan, 1998, Sound Journal 2.2 F - RESEARCH FORMALISM Fictionalised sounds in radio drama - Darren Copeland's Ten Questions for a Listener - comments - learning about sound and listening Figure-and-ground of dialogue - see 11.2 Linear - Cognitive Mapping and Radio Drama by Alan Beck - SECTION 11 Frame limits of the radio play scene - see Point-of-listening 6 F - PRE-PRODUCTION, PRODUCTION, POSTPRODUCTION Files - Standardizing file names Fallback - repairing problems in production FEISTY GIRL - attractive, pushy, selfish, sexy, attacking, intelligent F - SCRIPTS Face it - monologue script Gary Ferrington Gary Ferrington, 'Keep Your Ear-Lids Open' Journal of Visual Literacy (1994) http://interact.uoregon.edu/Medialit/wfae/library/articles/ferrington_earlids.pdf Gary Ferrington, 'Audio Design: Creating Multi-Sensory Images For The Mind', Journal of Visual Literary (1993) http://interact.uoregon.edu/Medialit/wfae/library/articles/ferrington_design.pdf Gary Ferrington, 'Take A Listening Walk and Learn To Listen', http://interact.uoregon.edu/Medialit/wfae/library/articles/ferrington_listening_walk.pdf
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Genre Types of radio plays (genres) Glossary Get a new pair of ears to listen to your post-production work Group dynamics - what goes right and avoiding the rest (RADIO SOAP SITE) This is the 'Radio Drama - directing, acting, technical, learning & teaching, researching, styles, genres' site.
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H - PRODUCTION hook Health and Safety H - SCRIPTS Hopes - monologue script H - STUDYING PLAYS John Dryden, 'Hotel Europa', 7-10-2000 and (repeated) 13-4-2001, B.B.C. R4, Friday Play 1 hour Kate Adshead, 'Hanging', 20-9-2002, Friday Play 1', BBC Radio 4 H - RESEARCH Horizontal axis - Linear manner of broadcast - 11.2 Linear - Cognitive Mapping and Radio Drama by Alan Beck - SECTION 11 Human-origin sounds, vocalised, non-vocalised - Darren Copeland's Ten Questions for a Listener - comments - learning about sound and listening
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quarter-layering - STYLISH SLIGHT REPEATING KEY PHRASES UNDER EACH OTHER (technique) Use QUESTIONS - 'HOW DO I' - to navigate this site.
R - RESEARCH RESEARCH - INTRODUCTION radio drama - various techniques Analysing radio drama 'The Revenge' - radio play without words, written and performed by Andrew Sachs in 1978 Radio theory - what is it for? Realism Radio drama dialogue is much more than the words on the page Bibliography - Radio Drama Reading List Radio apparatus theory Radio theory is more than culturalism - see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it? Master Narrative theorising (the flight from) - see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it? What does radio theory deal with? - see Radio theory - what is it for? What is it? Aurality as central to radio theory Reception theory - RESEARCH INTO RADIO DRAMA - INTRODUCTION Reception theory - Audiences (reception theory) Reception theory - Cognitive Mapping and Radio Drama by Alan Beck - monograph - SECTION 3 and 3.2 'Radio Audiences' for cognitive schemata (Branigan)
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T - TECHNIQUES TECHNIQUES - FULL RANGE OF RADIO DRAMA TECHNIQUES ON THESE SITES
record 'umms' from all the characters to store Underscoring music versus FXs
silences - different sorts Silences and the overall design
Slurring and stuttering (vocal problems) Swear words - exclamations - profanities (SUBSTITUTES)
Problem solving
Reverberation (echo) SOUND CENTRE Sound centre - see Point of listening = POL Sound centre - see Perspective explained by film shot analogy Sound centre - see Moving sound centre
Address - defines whom the speaker is addressing Adaptations Dialect or accent
Get a new pair of ears to listen to your post-production work Group dynamics - what goes right and avoiding the rest (RADIO SOAP SITE)
Bed - atmos Budgets - Pre-production
montage Montage - definition and creative exercises
microphone positions Moving sound centre technique - 'moving camera' or 'we go with' or 'mise en scène' 'shot' 'mise-en-scène' - techniques for the director to guide the listeners' perceptions
naming Narrative Narrator Noise
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VOICE Voice Voice - Dialect or accent V - RESEARCH Vocabulary of sound - Darren Copeland's Ten Questions for a Listener - comments - learning about sound and listening Visual - Oculocentrism or ocularocentrism (theory) Visual - dominance of - Point-of-listening in radio plays - Beck, Alan, 1998, Sound Journal 4.2 Visual - Dangers of visually-based theoretical terms (as 'image') - warning by Alan Beck
writing up your student project work (critique) word lobby and the sound brigade WELCOME PAGE Wolves - The Company of Wolves W - TECHNIQUES 'We go with' - technique - 'moving camera' or 'we go with' or 'mise en scène' 'shot' W - SCRIPTS 'Warm Up Act' - training script 'We go with - ' - training script 'Wrap Pack' - Scenes 1-1-2, 1-1-4 one male, one female (Jack, Sarah) 'Wrap Pack' 1-2-3 - two males (Jack and Colin) 'Wrap Pack' 1-3-5 - two males, one female (Jack, Colin, Olivia) 'Wrap Pack' 1-4-1 - one female, one male (Olivia, Colin) 'Wrap Pack' 2.2.5 - Olivia + Jack + Colin STUDYING INDIVIDUAL PLAYS Gregory Whitehead, 'The Marilyn Room', broadcast 25-5-2001 and 11-10-2002, B.B.C. R4, Friday Play, 1 hour, directed by Gregory Whitehead World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Online Reader, http://interact.uoregon.edu/Medialit/wfae/library/articles/
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