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)
 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 Narrative Use of Music Use of Characters or
silence narrator
Back ground sounds How are they talking How does it How many?
for location settings create an Male / female?
emotional
response?
Dark You can hear The voices go up The music sets Male – 2
Passenger everything so and down to make a tone for One of them
clearly with it more engaging, some deadly, is a narrator
sound effects that all the voices are because of the
are clearly different so you repetitive
demonstrating who is talking sound of the
the action that is without saying music like
happening. their name. They Jaws. Even in
talk like they have the
been mates background
forever and get all while they are
freaked out when talking
something scary
happenes.
What is
drama Two male friends are on a road trip traveling to a haunted
about? house and who seek out to scare each other

The Troll of You can tell The voices go up The music is Male – 2
Stoney where the setting and down a lot so strong at the Female – 1
Brook is because the that is more start with an One of them
background entertaining for intense feel to is a narrator
sound is so good. the listener. radio
With all the They talk like production.
sound telling the them selves, not The music sets
story and the like they are scenes and
music adding to reading from a makes us feel
like it was a film. script. There what we are
And changes voices really tell supposed to be
quickly to the story really feeling. It
introduce a new well considering relies heavily
scene. there is no visuals. on music and
the way the
characters
sound to make
the listener
know what
they are
supposed to
feel.
What is
drama
about? Jamie gets all shook up when he drives home one night from a
party and hits something. Which will change him forever.