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Radio drama is an audio performance broadcast on radio using sound effects and music to help listeners visualize the story without visual elements. The first radio dramas became popular in the 1920s in America and the UK. Radio dramas grew greatly in popularity in the 1930s but declined in the 1960s with the rise of television. However, radio drama has continued on some stations and includes important elements like scripts, dialogue, music, and sound effects to tell the story and create mood.

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Radio Drama: Powerpoint Presentation

Radio drama is an audio performance broadcast on radio using sound effects and music to help listeners visualize the story without visual elements. The first radio dramas became popular in the 1920s in America and the UK. Radio dramas grew greatly in popularity in the 1930s but declined in the 1960s with the rise of television. However, radio drama has continued on some stations and includes important elements like scripts, dialogue, music, and sound effects to tell the story and create mood.

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RADIO DRAMA

PowerPoint presentation
What is RADIO DRAMA?
• Radio drama, commonly known as radio
play, is a dramatized, purely audio
performance that is usually broadcast on
radio, tape or CD. With no visual music
and sound effects so as to help the
listener visualize the story and
characters.
The history of Radio Drama
• Radio drama s first became popular in 1920 when
they were invented. The first radio drama started
America. One of the Radio dramas first became
popular in 1920 when they were invented. The first
radio drama started in America. One of the first radio
drama written in UK was Danger by Richard Hughes it
was broadcast broadcast by BBC in January 15 1924.
Radio dramas became very popular in the 1930's the
were many different genres. In 1938 Orson Welles's
famous war of the worlds was broadcast.
In 1951 the first broadcast of BBC’s The Archers the
longest running radio soap in the world which still
runs today. Radio dramas continued to grow in
popularity.

Until the 1960 when people started to get televisions.


After televisions had caused a decline in the
popularity of radio dramas they never recovered and
became as popular as it was however radio drama
does still continue on radio 3 and 4 and even since
television it has had had some famous plays such as
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and radio plays are a
lot cheaper to make than television.
Codes and conventions

Codes and conventions are forms of


media that helps to make a final piece.
The Codes are the elements that have
to be included in the production, and
conventions are elements that listener
expect to hear.
ELEMENTS OF A RADIO DRAMA

• MUSIC

• SCRIPT

• DIALOGUE

• SOUND EFFECTS
MUSIC
• To underscore dialogue, as in a
movie, creating a “DRAMATIC”
mood.

• To create a bridge, a short three


or four measure musical
connection between scenes.
SCRIPT
• It is very important to have a script, without it
radio drama a cannot be produced. Script
contains all the information that you need for
your production, for example important cues
for diologue, music and sound effects. This
helps to understand writter’s intentions on
how the production should be looking. It also
helps to be organized for everyone who is
talking part of that production.
DIALOGUE
• Dialogue is basically a conversation
that happens when two or more
characters speak to one another.

• Helps move the story forward.


SOUND EFFECTS
Sound effects are the records that you can hear it at
•  

the background of the radio play. They add realism


to the production and give a clear idea what is going
on in the story. It helps the audience imagine the
situation. However, sometimes sounds effects make
the dialogue or monologue harder for listeners to
follow. This is why in many radio plays we can hear a
silence, which keeps the audience tense and
curious. However, silence should not be too long.

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