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 Use of Music Use of silence Characters or
Narrative narrator
Back ground How are they How does it How many? Male
sounds for talking create an / female?
location settings emotional
response?
Dark Uses dark David- tense, Tension is Silence 5 males
Passenger music that annoyed created creates a peak 2 females
seems throughout of tension and
looming and Matt- cavalier with the holds the
as if about safety, music and audience in
something bad doesn’t care. dialogue. suspence.
will happen. They’re not Whatever
getting along comes after
Window they’re angry that cuts the
wiper at eachother tension and
signpost and arguing elevates the
shows when which makes emotion
they are in the it feel unsafe. trying to be
car again. It portrayed.
connotes
danger.

Thunder to
show
something
ominous and
powerful and
bad will
happen.
What is It is about
drama about? teenagers
walking into a
dangerous
situation when
they drive to a
“haunted
house”
The Troll of
Stoney Brook
What is
drama about?