Listening Task

You are
want)

required to listen to the first 5 minutes of each of the following (You can listen to more if you
Everyday Time Machines (nominated for best single drama)
Dark Passenger (horror)
The Troll of Stoney brook

Note down what sounds you hear and how you know where they are and what is happening. The point
of Radio drama is to set the scene through SOUND rather than visual

Drama
Use of sound
Everyday
Time
Machines
What is
drama
about?
The drama
is about a
student at
Oxford
University,
studying
physics,
who has
been given
the
opportunity
by his
professor to
travel with
him.
Dark
Passenger

(Back ground
sounds for
location
settings)
Diegetic sound
effects are
used to
represent the
goings-on of
the fictional
world. Such as
the singing
phone at the
beginning.

What is
drama
about?

The diegetic
sound effects
are mostly for
atmosphere
such as rain
and wind
sounds.

Two friends
on a round
trip, one of
them is
trying to
scare the
other with
horror
stories.

There are also

sound effects
to
communicate
to us what is
happening,
such as the car
moving on a
gravel road.

Use of
Narrative
(How are they
talking)
The dialogue
is all
conversational
, between 2 or
3 characters
at any given
time. Details
of context,
setting and
plot are all
alluded to by
this dialogue.

There is a
narrator, but
most
information
comes from
the
conversation
between the
two
characters.
One of the
characters is
telling stores,
effectively
being a
narrator for all
of the
backstory
contained
within this
drama.

Use of
Music
Subtle use
of music in
opening
scene for
mood. Also
to fill the
silences in
the
dialogue,
so that
there is
not dead
air.

Use of
silence
There are
silences
during the
phone call at
the
beginning
this is to
characterize
the
awkwardnes
s between
the
characters,
and the
grimness of
the
conversation
(about a
characters
death).

Characters
or narrator
(How many?
Male /
female?)

None (?)

There are
some pauses
in the
dialogue, but
no obtuse or
held
silences.

2 male
characters,
plus one
male
narrator.

AT 8:00,
there have
been 6
characters,
5 male and
1 female.

The Troll of
Stoney
Brook
What is
drama
about?
A socially
awkward
man that
leaves a
party,
collides
with
something
while
driving, and
discovers a
strange
monster.

Diegetic sound
is used to build
the world and
scenes, such
as establishing
setting and
communicatin
g what is
happening.

The story is
slowly drip-fed
to us through
dialogue from
the
characters,
wither through
conversation
or the main
character
talking to
himself
absentmindedly.

Some
diegetic
music is
used to set
the scene
and
establish
setting.
Nondiegetic
music is
also used,
which is
used to
add
tension
and create
suspense.

There are
some pauses
in dialogue,
due to the
awkward
nature of
much of the
conversation
. The pauses
create this
mood of
uncertainty.

3 males, 1
female, and
2 more
background
male
characters.