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?
Al Smith's play
looks at the fate
of three
physicists who
meet at Oxford
and how Time
plays a central
part in their work
and their
relationships
with devastating
consequences.

Dark
Passenger

Use of sound

Use of
Narrative

Use of Music

Use of
silence

Deep breathing
from waking up
and sound of
the phone
ringing and
home waking
up.
Use of street
noise to create
the setting.

They are talking

through the use
of a cell phone.
The person on
the other end of
the line has a
crackle in his
voice to show
further that hes
on the phone

Used when it
was
announced
Samantha was
dead.
(music is
emotion)

Creates an
atmosphere of
shock when
he hears the
girl is dead

Car radio on

Narrator story
telling in
between scenes.

Strumming hash
guitar
introduced
whenever the
narrator speaks.

Rain beating on
car.
Car engine noise

What is drama
about?
Two teenage friends
start scaring each
other on the drive
to a dismal
haunted house on
the coast of Maine.
But when their
innocent fun starts
to become all too
real, they soon
realize what true
terror is. A nod to
Stephen King in a
tale inspired by a
true story too
haunting to forget.

The Troll of
Stoney Brook

What is drama
about?
An awkward
teenager, Jamie,
is driving home
one night from a
party when he
hits something
something big.
His pushy coworker, Rick,
talks him into
going back to
the scene of the
accident and
what they find
will change them
both forever.

Car door
shutting to show
the exit of the
car and
footsteps
afterwords

Party scene
created by
music in
background with
people being
loud in the
background
Car wheel spin
with a loud bang
Heavy breathing
to show shock

Male narrator
gives a brief
introduction

Look at that
light and the
hood to paint a
picture of what
happened

Briefly in the
background in
the house
party

To male
characters due
to the sound of
their voices.

2 male
characters
that talk
informally
like if they
were good
mates.
(david)

Dark piano
music introduces
when outside
car going to the
barn.

Skid of a car

Characters
or narrator

Just briefly
when he
crashes until
interrupted by
have
breathing

Girl and a boy

or chatting
before another
guy takes the
piss out of him