PRODUCER: responsible for the business side of radio drama production
THROUGH PRE-PRODUCTION, PRODUCTION, POSTPRODUCTION: budgets, time management, contracts, publicity, resources, studio for PRODUCTION, editing suite for POSTPRODUCTION, spreadsheets for budgets and time management (time line) delivering the PRODUCT
PRE-PRODUCTION
AUDITIONS Planning - email lists - all contact details with actors and technical staff (emails, mobile numbers, addresses) - time management for studio and post-production - double-check studio times SCRIPT: contract with playwright, redrafting (according to contract), preparing for PRODUCTION, copyright including music choices Booking studio OR / AND choosing locations for OB (outside the studio) production Copyright - PERFORMING RIGHTS PAYMENTS - YOU HAVE TO 'LOG' ALL COPYRIGHT MATERIAL, AND ESPECIALLY MUSIC - 'needle time'
PRODUCTION
budgets and booking the studio, auditions and casting, and making sure the actors arrive on time and with their scripts and prepared. You are looking for the best radio actors. Then you are looking for the best cast - putting these actors together in a production, like the range of musical instruments in an orchestra. You go for CONTRAST. You avoid CLUSTERING (actors whose voices sound too similar.) POSTPRODUCTION
This site is 'Radio Drama - directing, acting, technical, learning & teaching, researching, styles, genres'. See INDEX to navigate also. Complete curriculum of scripts, techniques (acting & directing & post-production & genre styles), advice, sound files - effects and atmoses (with no copyright and so free to use), detailed script commentaries, etc.
TECHNIQUES - FULL RANGE OF RADIO DRAMA TECHNIQUES ON THESE SITES
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