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 (How many?
sounds for talking) Male / female?)
Time location
Machines settings)

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Dark Weather – The narration Music used at Silence adds Two male
Passenger rain made adds the beginning tension and characters
by bubble description to effectively suspense, one named
sets a scene.
wrap. the the listeners Matt.
The music is
What is drama quite fast and
about? represents the
Footsteps, It begins
Two teenage fast moving
door with a
friends start car they are
opening. suspenseful
sat in. It also
scaring each narration
suits the
other on the Basement – narration very which hooks
way to this makes one well as the the
character pace the audience.
abandoned
seem further character is The main
house. During going at
away than character is
the drive the other. matches the talking about
beat of the
things turn the location
music. It’s a
into a true Screaming of very effective that they are
horror story, people introduction as going to and
shows their the acoustic this builds
full of terror.
tone and guitar playing up an
emotion. in the atmosphere
background for the
The two creates a viewer.
country feel.
friends head
to their old Aswell as this
house trying the acoustic
to scare guitar
each other, transitioned
by playing from ominous
tricks on to creepy
each other.
They find
out that they
cannot enter
the house so
they go in
through the
basement
and gather
that the
house is
haunted.

The Troll of
Stoney
Brook

What is drama
about?