Listening Task

You are required to listen to the first 5 minutes of each of the following (You can listen to more if you want)
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
Use of sound Use of Use of Music Use of silence Characters
Narrative or narrator
Everyday (Back ground (How are they (How many?
sounds for talking) Male / female?
Time location settings)
Machines

What is drama
about?
Sound Dialog is
This story is Music is used Silence is 2 Students
effects are manly used to
about 2 as a way of used for 1 Professor
used explain the
physicists linking scenes dramatic 1 Man
throughout scene and
from different and setting effect and
for what is
backgrounds the scene tension but
interaction happening
who are creating an also for
with objects
applying for emotional defining the
and the
an assistant pull. end of a
movement of
job sense and
the
the start of a
characters
new one

Dark
Passenger
What is drama
about?
The space The narrative Music is used Never 2 young
they are in is is always alongside complete males
Two young
captured accompanied the narrative silence from
males travel
through the by music as to and what I heard,
back to see
amount of add more occasionally there is
an old
echo in their atmosphere within the silence in the
decrepit
voices and to the talking story. The dialogue but
house and
the sound and set the music sets a there is
come across
effects of the mood foreboding always
some strange
surroundings. and tense atmospheric
haunting
mood, sounds
incidences
evoking playing.
forcing them
more anxious
to leave.
behavior.
Leaving the
audience
what ting for
something to
happen.

The Troll of
Stoney Brook

What is drama
about?

An awkward Uses eerie The narrative Music is used Uses the 2 young
guy called sounds that in to set the science the males, 1
Jamie leaves arent incorporated scene but create a man, 1 girl
the party realistic but into the out also is used definite and 1 Troll
and hits a still create loud thoughts as part of the location and
strange the scary of the main location as scene
animal thing atmosphere. character music is change
after being Jamie and playing.
pressured by how he
is friend nervously talks
Rick to go about what
back and he is going to
have a look do.
at what he
hit what they
see is a
TROLL!!!