The ancillary tasks

We were given two other tasks to do as well as the actual radio drama. We had to make an advertisement to go into a magazine advertising when and what time the drama will be on. The second task was to create a double page listings from a magazine.
On the left is my double page spread. I used the same font throughout the whole thing to keep consistancy and to make is seem more professional. I had the dates and genres of radio on a bigger font at the top. From looking at other radio listings I think mine is pretty similar and you can see the characteristics that they all follow.

On the right is the final version of my advertisment. The font used is quite a horror type font which is fitting in with the drama. I also kept it quite minimalistic so the reader could take it in easily by seeing the appropriate information (date,rime,station etc.) For the picture, I went to a local hotel and took a few photos of it, I then photoshopped it to change the image. For example i added a laer of blood over the top. I also included the Radio 4 logo to give the readers more information.

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

A couple of weeks ago all the media students and others got together and we listened to everyones radio drama and make comments on each. From our feedback we found out that a lot of people were confused by the ending as it was a separate part to the actual drama. To fix this we got Sophie and Clare to act as those characters for us to differentiate from the first part of the drama. We also found out that everyone else had introduced their radio drama and had put a theme tune onto it so we went back into the radio suite and recorded a short clip of us introducing ourselves and also added a theme the at the beginning on Soundtrack Pro.

How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?

Throughout making the drama i furthered my knowledge of using three particular programmes:
InDesign, Photoshop and Soundtrack Pro

In the radio suite we recorded our drama onto a programme onto Soundtrack Pro, this was a programme i had never used before. IT was quite easy to use to record the drama, we could easily listen over what we had recorded and found it easy to record over bits that went wrong etc. When the drama was recorded we could then cut out bits of the drama which were not needed, this was done by using the blade tool. We could then add sound effects onto our drama.

Then in Photoshop I opened the photograph I took, I then fiddled around with the different effects that can be added onto the picture, i decided to use the grain effect. This made the picture look more distorted. I then created multiple layers onto the picture and on these layers i put on a layer of blood, I then made the blood transparent so you could still the picture beneath.

I used InDesign quite a lot during this project. I firstly used it for my advertisement, for this I could change the different type faces and colours using the palette etc. Then when I created my double page spread i used pretty much the same tools but just added a lot more lines and text boxes to fit in with the traditional aspects of a radio listings magazine.

Production Diary #21

Today i put my edited pictures into my advertisment and my double page spread and this is how they look now.

Production Diary #20

Today I put my photos into Photoshop and started messing around with the effects to give it a distorted look, i then added layers of blood over the top and this is it finished.