Listening Task

You are required to listen to the first 5 minutes of each of the following (You can listen to more if you
want)
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 Use of Use of Music Use of Characters
Narrative silence or narrator
Everyday (Back ground (How are they Used very To show a sense (How many?
sounds for talking) simplistically of awkwardness. Male / female?)
Time location They are talking and not to great Also used to One female and
Machines settings) in character effect. Used as pass time and 4 males
making each an atmospheric gives the
Constant chatter line sound lift. audience
What is drama and bird believable in enough time to
about? whistling. The their think up their
Its about two sound of their deliverance. own ideas.
guys trying to voice changes They try to
prove their depending on make their
worth to their where they are. speech
superior. Distinct accents believable by
to distinguish taking pauses
characters from and breaks mid
each other. speech.

Dark Use of car We can tell that Used very There wasnt Two very close
movement and the two are effectively to much silence in friends or even
Passenger in-car echo to close friends build tension this drama but brothers
resemble the through the way throughout the where there was
ambience of they deliver first part of the it was noticeable
being inside a their lines story this is because the rest
What is drama car. Doors realistically and helpful to the of the drama
about? opening and comfortably in a believability of was very
An old house outside noises brotherly way. the piece as it ambient
where two escalates. This use of adds a layer of
friends came to Waves in the emotion in the connection to
camp has stories background for voice makes it the story that
and mat is trying beachy feel. very easy for the you couldnt
to scare his audience to feel reach otherwise.
friend with these the same There was an
stories. One of emotions as the intelligent use of
the friends voice actors volume changes
seems more also which made
scared than the the louder parts
other. contrast better
to the quieter
ones.

The Troll of The sounds are The narrators They use the There wasnt a The troll and the
very believable very effectively same song lot of silence in two boys are the
Stoney Brook they use all the explain what is repeatedly this drama main characters.
sounds that we going on in the which is really
would here if we scene. effective
What is drama were there. We They because it
about? here the exhaust continuously brings the
in the characters explain what listener back to
Two men hit a voices as they they see and remember
troll and go into are speaking smell. They are earlier moments.
the woods no which is very descriptive
knowing what it something I with whats
was. They go didnt notice in going on around.
into the woods any of the other
to find out what dramas.
it is and find
what they think
is an abandoned
troll village.
Then the troll
comes back to
find them there
and eats one of
them.