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
It follows three
physicists who
meet at oxford
and run into
issues with time.

Dark
Passenger

What is drama
about?

The Troll of
Stoney
Brook
What is drama
about?

(Back ground
sounds for
location
settings)
Telephone
ringing voice
filters
Bike bells
general voice
noises and
church bells
Bird noises

Rain sound
and crinkling
wrappers
wind sound
doors
opening a
closing
changes to
reverb levels

People
talking
reverb
changes,
muffled
music
Feet walking
on wet grass
car ignition
sounds and
radio music
Mobile
phone
ringtones

Use of
Narrative

Use of Music

Use of
silence
Silence is
used for
dramatic
pauses to
emphasis
points and
to indicate
the
beginning of
a new scene

Characters
or narrator

(How are they

talking)
Well spoken,
Scottish accent.
American
accents

To evoke an
emotional
response to
help
communicat
e the inner
feelings of
the character

Both with
America
accents use
of slang

To connote a
negative
atmosphere
and set up
the tone of
the drama.

Silence is
used
primarily for
dramatic
effect

2 male
characters

American
accents

To set up the
tone of the
drama.
Whimsical
and magical
sounding,
mysterious.

Silence is
used for
dramatic
effect

1 male
1 female

(How many?
Male / female?)
2 male
1 female