Radio Play Projects: Day 4

Please continue to work on writing your radio play projects. These drafts are due Monday. By the end of class today you should have added between 3-6 pages of your script. Use your time wisely!

Consider using some of these techniques in your script:

• V.O.: Voice Over (indicates a character who is narrating (your narrator, for example, should always have a V.O. after their name to indicate this...; Also used when a character speaks over music, a sound effect, or other characters
• Beat/Pause: indicates silence or a pause in the dialogue or line
• Bridge: a musical interlude to indicate the change of one scene to the next.
• Off: indicates the actor should be further away from the microphone; indicates distance
• Close: indicates the actor should be close to the microphone; indicates...closeness
• D (Distort): indicates that the speaker/actor's voice should be altered in some way (for example, as if the voice is coming through a telephone or some other voice alteration device)
• Atmos: indicates there should be an ambient sound or background noise during the scene
• Break: indicates a break, usually for an advertisement or commercial
• Background: sound or sound effect that occurs under the dialogue of a scene in a radio play
• Back Anno (back announcement): words spoken by an announcer, after playing a song or report
• Drop In: a pre-recorded sound that is a sound byte from another media source (radio/television/film, etc.)\
• Reverb: the effect of sound bouncing back to create an echo
• Stereo/Mono: mono = sound comes from one speaker; stereo = sound comes from bother left or right speaker to indicate position of actor/character in a scene. Stereo Left or Stereo Right.
• Teaser: a short script to remind listeners as to what program or radio station they are listening to.
• Ad Lib: The actors make up the line on the spot. They are not written in the script.
• Fade: sound fades out (or in) to indicate the end of a scene
• FX: short for sound effects. You should use this one frequently in a radio script.

HOMEWORK: Please continue working on your radio scripts (particularly if you did not reach the required page # today in the lab.) Read chapter 5, Radio & Broadcasting, Part 2 and answer the questions on our Google Classroom form for Wednesday, Jan. 16.