Getting Started on Radio Drama
A Suggested Scheme of Work
AS G323: Key Media Concepts (Radio Drama)
This unit is an alternative to studying G322 Television Drama. For some students and centres it will be more attractive than TV Drama especially for students interested in audio technology, music and music production.
Resources
The technical resources for this unit are very modest – all radio can now be accessed on the internet, although a reasonable stereo sound system for classroom use would be beneficial. It is important to be able to hear the stereo dynamics and audio soundscape of a modern radio play.
The experience of radio will be greatly enhanced if students can create their own short radio plays. Microphones to record onto a computer is all that is needed and audio editing software such as AUDACITY is free to download.
Multi-track editing software such as Audacity makes it easier to devise an ambitious sound design.
I have edited the OCR spec to make it – I hope - much clearer:
Section A
Textual Analysis and Representation
EXAM
For the examination in 2009, 2010, 2011:
The unheard audio extract will be four to five minutes in length and will be from the genre of Radio Drama.
This is a 2 hour exam for both sections A and B with 30 minutes listening time. The extract will be heard 4 times.
Realistically candidates...
