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 silence Characters or narrator
Back ground sounds for location How are they talking How does it How many? Male / female?
settings create an
emotional
response?
Dark The radio is playing in the car They are talking The guitar Couldn’t hear 2 male characters
Passenger like normal at creates any One is the narrator
You can hear the bumps in the first when they tension and
road when they are in the car are in the car sets the tone
and also the ambience of a car for the rest of
the drama

What is The drama is about 2 friends and one of them has the urge to go and visit a house and they are trying to scare each other
drama on their way to the house
about?

The Troll of The sound at the party uses The story The music in Couldn’t hear 2 male characters
Stoney both the music and the sound happens at the the club silence during 1 female character
Brook of people which help to create start and then it creates the the drama 1 narrator
the ambience of a party cuts to the main atmosphere of
character telling being in a
When he is in the car, the the story to club
sound of the car driving as well someone else
as the phone going off help to At 5:05 the
show he is not concentrating on music
the road and that could be why transitions
he crashes into the troll from being
tense and
mysterious to
being music
that you could
potentially
here in a
restaurant
What is The drama is about a man who leaves a party after trying to talk to a girl and then on his way home he hits a troll with his
drama car and then goes on to explain the story to his friend
about?