Radio Drama Presentation

Charlie MacArthur

The StorylineThe story follows two young music producers and the banter they have on their quest to become rich and famous.

The Budget

The Recording Studio One week In a Studio I narrowed down my choice to these two

and have chosen the Abbey Road Penthouse

Abbey Road - £5,000 for the penthouse Silver street Studios - £3,000

Voice ActorsI’m going to pay one actor to

cover the voices of both of the main characters.

Probably about £2,000 for a weeks work.

Folly Sounds Its important to have lots of folly sounds

in my radio drama so I would spend some of the budget on random materials and objects to record different sounds.

Up to £1000

Sound editing I’m going to be editing the sound myself

but if I wanted somebody else to do it I would have to pay them at an hourly rate.

Sound Editor ; £300 - £1000

The Characters

Bill Bill is a dopey , easily amused

and chilled out character. He doesn’t understand what’s going on and makes that clear to the audience.

BenBill and Ben are very similar , but Bens a bit livelier. Ben has a more hands on approach to music whilst Bill will sit their and just mong out.

Target Audience

My drama is aimed at college students between 16 – 20 and fans of comedy

Codes Whilst writing my script I am baring in

mind various different codes that I can use to make my drama more interesting and engaging . Their are various different ways that I am going to do this , for example the use of music throughout to and to the words and voices and SFX are going to be used throughout.

Conventions The story is mainly based on spoken word as I

dont want any narration in my drama , I might include a flashback and a fades in and out.

I dont want the listeners to get distracted by narration or constantly changing plot lines with constant flashbacks and things to think about , I want a simple straight forward well though out drama that I can produce to a high standard.

Styles The content in my drama is perfect for my

demographic , its made by a teenager , the only actors in it are teenagers and its going to be presented to a teenage audience.

Its a very modern style radio drama and I feel that its a new idea that hasn't been done before , so I have alot of room to adapt change and find a good strong style that fits the wants and needs of a young audience.

Structures I'm aiming for the drama to be about five

minutes long because I don’t want to drag it on for to long and young audiences have a tendency to get bored and distracted very easily to I would like to keep things moving quickly.

The plot is slow moving and develops throughout the story , its easy to follow alot of people are going to be able to relate to it and hopefully people might even find it funny.