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The document summarizes three radio dramas that were listened to for 5 minutes each: 1) "Everyday Time Machines" is about physicists at Oxford helping a girl who traveled back in time using a broken time machine. Sound effects are used to set locations and show movement of characters. 2) "Dark Passenger" follows a boy and his friend driving to a haunted house. Sound cues the changing of locations and builds tension. 3) "The Troll of Stoney Brook" features a boy investigating what he hit after leaving a party. Music is incorporated to transition between scenes. Sound effects and voices help immerse the listener in each story without visuals.

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Task 1 Radio Lo1

The document summarizes three radio dramas that were listened to for 5 minutes each: 1) "Everyday Time Machines" is about physicists at Oxford helping a girl who traveled back in time using a broken time machine. Sound effects are used to set locations and show movement of characters. 2) "Dark Passenger" follows a boy and his friend driving to a haunted house. Sound cues the changing of locations and builds tension. 3) "The Troll of Stoney Brook" features a boy investigating what he hit after leaving a party. Music is incorporated to transition between scenes. Sound effects and voices help immerse the listener in each story without visuals.

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Listening Task

You are
want)

required to listen to the first 5 minutes of each of the following (You can listen to more if you
Everyday Time Machines (nominated for best single drama)
Dark Passenger (horror)
The Troll of Stoney brook

Note down what sounds you hear and how you know where they are and what is happening. The point
of Radio drama is to set the scene through SOUND rather than visual

Drama
Everyday
Time
Machines
What is drama
about?

The drama is
about
Physicists
studying at
Oxford and a
girl who
travels back
in time and
needs help
getting back
to the future
after her
time
machine
broke.
Dark
Passenger

What is drama
about?
The boy drives
with his friend to
a haunted
house.

The Troll of
Stoney Brook
217932
What is drama
about?
A boy who
leaves a party
and hits
something, he
goes back to
discover what it
was.

Use of sound

Use of
Narrative

(Back ground
sounds for
location
settings)

(How are they


talking)

Noises to show
location
outdoors, e.g.
birds tweeting
and background
noises of people
talking.
Walking sound
effects to show
movement.
Sound of cutlery
and plates to
show they are
eating and
background
noises.

Walking,
footstep
sound
effects.
Sound of
opening car
door to show
leaving
location and
you can tell
they step out
of the car as
you hear the
sound of
wind to show
the location
has
changed.
There are
lots of sound
effects, e.g.
sounds of
fire and birds
so you feel
as though
you are
there and it
makes it
easier to
invasion
what is

Al smith is
narrating the
radio drama
towards the
beginning

Use of Music
At 3.50,
slow,
harrowing
music
playing as
the
character is
talking
about the
death of
Samantha.

Use of
silence
Lots of
dramatic
paused to
create more
emotion for
the
characters.
Pauses of
silence add
tension and
make it
sound more
realistic.
There is
silence in
between
different
scenes.

Characters
or narrator
(How many?
Male / female?)

One male
narrator.
Two male
characters
One female
character
Three
physicists.

Main
character in
the story
narrates
what
happened to
him at the
start.

Slow, eerie
music at the
start behind
the
narrating.
Scary,
apprehensiv
e music at
tense parts
of the
drama.

There isnt
too much
silence,
there is
music
towards the
start and in
other parts.

Main
teenage boy
narrating
what
happened to
him and
friend.

There is
narration at
the start
from the
main
character
introducing
the drama.

Music at the
start and
used
throughout
the drama to
show scene
transitions,
e.g. the
transition
between the
reporter and
the boys
walking with

There isnt
much silence
as there is
often
background
sound
effects and
voices.

The troll,
Jamie (the
main
character),
the friend,
reporter and
the girl and
bullies from
the party.

happening.
Sirens are
used to show
emergency
services and
to make it
more clear
what is
happening.

the troll at
22.06.

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