Production Diary #7

We booked out the college radio suite and started to record our drama after learning how to use Soundtrack Pro. As we hadn't done anything like this before it took quite a while and didn't get it finished in one lesson.

Production Diary #6

We went onto the computers and typed up our radio drama in the correct format.We underlined things to put emphasis on some of the lines, put sound effects that needed to be added in, in red etc. We also decided on who was going to play who in the drama. Alice was Tracy, Olga and Mr Pike. Catherine was Debbie and I was Joanie. This is a page from our typed up script:

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

The most likely media institution to distribute our radio drama is the BBC as they. It would probably be broadcasted on BBC Radio 4 as this is the predominant radio station for all genres of radio dramas. Radio 4 are constantly growing and gaining new listeners and this is good because Radio 4's listeners are normally of the older generation but as they constantly grown this should lead younger listeners to tune into Radio 4. This would help a lot as our drama consists of young people and is aimed at the younger generation.

Production Diary #5

We then started scripting our drama out rough and got most of it done in the lesson. As we went through scripting it we changed some things to the story as we thought it would be better and flow easier.

Who would be the audience for your media product and how did you attract/address your audience?

Oue main audience would be both males and females between the ages of 17-25. This is because it is based around a group of young girls around the same age and has a horror effect. Normally it is teenagers who are interested in the horror format.Our characters are all different to each other so the listeners could create a relationship with one and find them their favourite.

As radio dramas aren't visual the audience relys soley on audio to gain an understanding of the drama. This can be harder to get across your story and adress the audience but it is done using a variety of factors such as lexical choice, accent, tone and sound effects.

Our drama represents different types of girls so we adressed them in different ways throughout the drama using the different factors mentioned above.One of our characters were represented in quite a negative light (Debbie) as being a bit promiscous etc. This is done in alot of media products such as Skins and The Inbetweeners. While the other two characters (Tracy & Joanie) come across in a more positive light as they're commited to their jobs and always just want to get on with things. We did this because we didn't want all three girls to be presented in a negative light. This also gives a variation to the characters.

We felt that we needed to relate to our listeners more so at the end of the drama we added abit of audio in which were the presenters speaking about the story and they go on to say about how scary it would be if that happened when they were staying in hotels when going to univeristy open days etc. This is relevant to our audience because people around the ages of 17-25 are thinking about university.

Production Diary #3

We then wrote up the basic urban myth about the body in the mattress and brainstormed more idea for the drama such as characters, setting and storyline.

Production Diary #2

From our research of urban myths we brainstormed stories for each of them such as how it would work, what would be the climax etc. After doing this we then decided that the urban myth about a body in a mattress would be the best idea.