Unit 20 Radio

P1
link to whole script
First 2 pages:

Link to whole treatment

First 3 slides of treatment

Production Plan/ Schedule;                               

a) Recording date(s) and time(s)

29th April: 1pm-2pm, 3pm-3.30pm 4th May: 10am-10:30am, 10:45am-11:15am

Product launch date

- ensure it fits with relevant seasonal or calendar event

June 3rd

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.

b) Resources and equipment needed

Microphones, recording equipment, audio editing software, studio, voice actors, director, editor, sound technician, sound effect tools

c) Personnel/cast/crew and roles/jobs

Cast	Character
Kacper Balkota Adam Holland Daniel Welch Daniel Pritchard Sam Tindall Charlie Brett Adam Holland Daniel Pritchard Daniel Welch	Gavin Martin Worker 1 Worker 2 Boss Skip Captain Ship Pilot 1
Crew	Role
Sam Tindall Adam Holland Sam Tindall Sam Tindall Adam Holland Kacper Balkota Daniel Welch Daniel Pritchard Charlie Brett	Director Producer Writer Actor Actor Actor Actor Actor Actor

d) Budget

If professional

24,000 per hour episode

If student

No budget, equipment provided.

e) legal & ethical issues & how you resolved them

Issue	Resolved by…
Strong language Fire hazards Slips, trips and falls Emergencies	Airing after water shed Fire extinguisher and emergency exits Check space for trip and slip hazards. Always one first aider present in the building.

P2

Location recce & outcomes for survival

When recording we are using the room D113 at long road as we were able to book it out for recording, it has a few tables which means we can have the zoom microphones on the table instead of having to hold them. The room is large enough to fit all 5 of us and it didn’t have a bad echo in the room so it is perfect for our recording of the dialogue. The room wasn’t too cramped and wasn’t too warm or cold and was good for the voice actors to use.

The second room was smaller and had more of an echo but it worked for the dialogue, the scenes where the characters are in a smaller space is more convincing. There was seating in the room so the voice actors were comfortable however the table in the room was below the level of the chairs meaning they had to hold the zoom microphone or lean forward uncomfortably to speak into it if it was on the table.

The third room we used was extremely cramped and wasn’t very good at keeping outside sounds out. Meaning conversations outside the room could be heard, however it meant we could all sit comfortably around the microphone and we could be heard clearly.

Risks hazards and solutions

P3

Legal and ethical issues for Survival

Survival is a radio drama, which has characters that speak differently, however there aren’t any characters of other ethnicities this is because we didn’t have the means of getting actors to play these roles, if we had actors of a different ethnicity the script would have been changed to show this variation.

The radio drama doesn’t feature themes such as terrorism or law breaking in any scenes, which means there aren’t any legal issues and the time it will be played is after the watershed meaning that people of an inappropriate age won’t be able to listen to it. This has been decided as there is themes of violence, smoking and use of swearing in the radio drama. these are used because these themes are used to show the characters personalities. 

P4

3 sounds effects i am going to use:

How we followed the production process:

We followed the typical production process for a radio drama by first writing a script, everyone in the group wrote a script each and we decided on which script/idea we should put forward and produce. After choosing our favourite script we figured out what voices we will need and decided on who will voice each character, this was easy to decide as we had enough people in the group to voice the characters. The next step in the production process was to record the actual dialogue, we did this in a quiet room using a recording device. After we recorded the dialogue, we listened through it to check for any bad recordings or mistakes, if there were any, we went to re-record, also in a quiet room. Once we got all the dialogue recorded, the only thing that was left to do was to put it all together and edit, we did this using a a audio editing software called 'Adobe Audition'. Once the editing was finished we exported the final piece and uploaded it online.

How did we follow safe working practices?

When recording the dialogue for our radio drama we made sure the area had no hazards, we made sure there was no bags, cables or equipment on the floor so there was no risk of tripping. We also tested the equipment to make sure it worked before we went. The chairs and tables in the rooms were all working so they didn't cause any hazards. We made sure we were all sat down and we weren't moving around, this was because it was easier to record and it prevented any incidents.

When recording the folly effects we made sure we weren't doing anything dangerous to get the sound effects, for example instead of going to a construction site which has many hazards we recorded separate sounds with different objects then we put them together.  






P5
FINISHED RADIO DRAMA