P1
P2
A few of the ideas:
Alien virus on mars has infected astronauts, should they be allowed back to earth.
Apocalypse on earth, Family survives, they are trying to find other possible survivors.
A force field surrounds west sussex, people trapped inside have to hunt for food.
P3
First treatment: False Rapture
Second treatment: Darkened inferno
P4
My script feedback:
The feedback from my script which was pitched by Kacper was positive, although one negative point of feedback is that the events in the script happen too suddenly, overall the script has been described to have a lot of potential and received a lot of positive feedback.
Feedback and changes for pitch:
Personal feedback:
The treatment had some repetition in it that could have been confusing.
There might have been too much on the slides too read.
The pitch dragged on and the time wasn't managed well enough.
There were too many silences
I think the way we could have improved the pitch would be if we had more practice or a little more confidence.
False rapture treatment edited after feedback
link to group pitch
Class feedback:
There were two main issues with the pitch the first being we didn't explain any of the characters in enough detail for them to understand what the characters are like, The other major issue was that we didn't explain why they were having to colonise Mars in the first place. The smaller problems involved confusing information for example one piece of feedback said they were confused with all the spaceships although we only mentioned one, this could be down to us being unclear.
sample feedback sheets
After taking in feedback we altered the treatment this is the final edited treatment:
Link here
After the group met up and discussed the idea we decided to go with Sam's idea as the group decided that we felt it was most feasible.
P5
a) Recording date(s) and time(s):
29th April: 1pm-2pm, 3pm-3.30pm
4th May: 10am-10:30am, 10:45am-11:15am
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Product launch date:
June 3rd
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Why that date?:
The Friday during May half term, it’s the time that college and universities are off timetable so it is available to the mid demographic.
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b) Resources and equipment needed:
Microphones, recording equipment, audio editing software, studio, voice actors, director, editor, sound technician, sound effect tools
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c) Personnel/cast/crew and roles/jobs:
Cast
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Character
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Kacper Balkota
Adam Holland
Daniel Welch
Daniel Pritchard
Sam Tindall
Charlie Brett
Adam Holland
Daniel Pritchard
Daniel Welch
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Gavin
Martin
Worker 1
Worker 2
Boss
Skip
Captain
Ship
Pilot 1
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Crew
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Role
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Sam Tindall
Adam Holland
Sam Tindall
Sam Tindall
Adam Holland
Kacper Balkota
Daniel Welch
Daniel Pritchard
Charlie Brett
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Director
Producer
Writer
Actor
Actor
Actor
Actor
Actor
Actor
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d) Budget:
If professional:
Expenses:
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Total:
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£50 a day for each actor / 2 days
4 Microphones / £69 per microphone Adobe Audition Editing Software Food for crew Booking out quiet places for recording |
£500
£276 £21.50 £50 Varies |
Total: £847.50
If student:
Equipment Provided by College:
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Budget:
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-Microphones
-Quiet room -Editing Software -Computer |
No budget, we don't need to pay for anything, equipment and props provided & we have consent forms from the voice actors within our group.
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e) Legal & ethical issues & how you resolved them:
Issue
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Resolved by…
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Strong language
Fire hazards
Slips, trips and falls Emergencies
Racial language or words References to companies or brands Violence (gun or physical) Needing to have diverse characters Different statuses for different people |
Airing after water shed
Fire extinguisher and emergency exits
Check space for trip and slip hazards.
Always one first aider present in the building.
None will be used in the final radio drama Will not use any in the script. None of this put in the final script The original script had diverse characters although as this was a student project we didn't find the time to hire anybody for this so we had to make changes and just use what we had. None used in this radio drama |
Merit:
How did you take into account season or calendar events when planning your launch date?
- We planned our launch date for Friday 3rd June because of it being May half term and therefore Colleges, Universities, Sixth forms and secondary schools will be off for holiday allowing them to have the time off to listen in on our radio drama launch and leading up to it they will have the time to notice the advertising and will know when our launch date is, overall we planned our launch date at a time suitable for our target audience by taking into account calendar events for schools and this helped us decide the final launch date.
How are your timescales, launch date and budget realistic and feasible?
Our project is feasible with the budget because as this is a student project we need no budget because we have the recording equipment already available to us and we only had 6 characters in our script and we had enough voice actors within our group to do it without having to hire voice actors, in the end we just got permission from each group member so that we could use them in the radio drama. Our launch date is feasible because it is a new radio drama played on a Friday night for young adults to listen to, this would be normal for this time and date as it is a time where many young adult viewers can listen in and this means that it has the potential to be very successful, also this time slot isn't taken by any other radio drama and therefore we would be able to have it on.
Distinction:
Distinction:
Contingency plan:
- If a voice actor is ill and can't be there for recording - Record a different day or get a new voice actor.
- If the recording room is booked already - Book another time slot or see if another room can be used instead.
- Script is not finished for the recording - Wait until it has been complete, work as a team to get it done together or record anyway and just try out different lines.
- Loud noises in the background (people talking, walking, door slams etc.) - Record another time, ask people politely if they can be quiet, put a sign up saying recording in progress or let the rooms near us know that we are recording.
Revise pre-production based on feedback:
I revised my pre-production based on the script and treatment based on the feedback I got and the changes I made where;
Treatment changes:
- Wrote what year it was set in.
- Put a few more details on the main two characters plus a little description of two more characters.
- I added another few things about the storyline and what it leads on to.
- I put more information on the target audience slide about who specifically would like it and what type of person they would be.
- I also added some more pictures to each slide and a bit of colour.
Script changes:
- Corrected all grammar and spelling mistakes.
- Added a few more sound effects and parenthetical.
- Changed lines so that they where easier and more natural for people to say.
- Took out any unnecessary lines.
- Changed the characters so that instead of about 8 different voice actors it became 5 or 6 as I worked out who could play two or more characters and that it would make sense to combine two different characters as one because of how similar they are and that they are in different scenes.
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