Friday 28 January 2011

Radio Drama Synopsis


Elizabeth and Katie are two 19 year olds who are both studying at Manchester University. When Katie’s bitchy sister Stephanie comes to take the girls home back to Oxford, their trip takes an unexpected turn for the worst. Unusual things begin to happen, starting with the closure of two largely populated motorways. The three girls decide to change the route on the sat nav, which provides them with an alternative journey. The girls are oblivious to where they are when more strange things begin to happen. The radio news announcement warns them to stay inside and then they suddenly they hit something. When the girls get out to investigate there is nothing in sight but the large, monstrous claw mark on the bonnet of the car. The car door suddenly shuts unexpectedly, along with the headlights, locking the keys away in the car, and the girls are left in darkness, but are they alone?

Thursday 27 January 2011

Production Log - 14th January

After showing other class members the first draft for our script, they gave us some feedback. although our class mates enjoyed the radio drama, many members of the group felt that we needed an ending with much more of an impact. The class suggested that we include a suggestion of death or murder, allowing the audience to come to the conclusion of what has happened. Also, many members of the group felt that there was too much use of bad language. we then had to consider who our radio drama was targeted at, and realised that if we wanted to target our product at a wide range of people, we would have to remove the swearing.
To make the radio drama more interesting we decided to include conventions from other tv programmes and films such as Dead Set