Silences and the overall design

Think of the overall design. Is this a 'through composed' piece?

That means - there are no silences between scenes, and there are cross-fades between scenes or music bridges between scenes.

Or you may want one or more significant silences.

A silence like this is very useful. Because it allows the listeners to catch up, to think back on what they have heard - to put it all together so far.

And it enables you to build to something very significant about to come - as the climactic scene.

So the whole piece sweeps up to the main climactic scene, and the listener is given the signal to await this - by this significant silence.

To silences - different sorts

Then - further into this site:

Setting the scene

		hook
signposting	Description
establish presence	scene boundaries	scene boundaries - more
Perspective	sound centre and   Point of listening = POL	To index

Structuring the plot

Narrative	protagonist-dominated	Narrator
closure (ending)	use a 'mystery'	Realism
		To index

Production issues in detail

address	naming	record 'umms' from all the characters to store
scene structure	dialogue is more than words	SOUND BOX - production sound effects archive
atmos and soundscapes	double frame - triple frame	clustering
underscoring music - fighting the dialogue	Noise	'moving camera' technique
Music	montage	'Will you turn that music down!' 18-second rule
drop-ins	sound pictures	memorability
number the scenes carefully with a system	voice in the mind = interiorizing	time-space rule or jump cut

Styles of production, directing and post-production

Standard production	Genre (academic) and types of plays	story board
chaining sentences - (characters or character and narrator)	doubling sentences - overlapping (narrator and protagonist)	economy rule
		To index

Theoretical issues & writing-up your project

writing up your student project work (critique)	realism	symbol system
language based =  logocentric	What is radio theory for?	Theory - what is it?
Voice

 

 

 

 

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