unit 19

Stimulus 


For our stimulus we were given a set of words to choose from.

- Gender roles
- Physical and emotional isolation
- Blame
- Humanity in nature
- Greed
- Generational conflict
- The exchange of information

These words are all themes or associated with the themes of Blood wedding. We used these

Radio scripts

Product: Oxfam charity

Length: 30 seconds

Medium: Radio

Writer: Tyler Case

                                          Production notes

Narrator voiced by Tyler case (me – English accent)

Lucy voiced by Annabelle hill (English accent)

Kim voiced by Lesharn Linton (English – African accent)

MUSIC  -  FROM 00.00 PLAY 30 SECONDS TO MARS – ALIBI INSTRUMENTAL – BEGIN THE SONG AT 1.16 AND FADE OUT AT 1.36 AS THE ADVERT ENDS.

Script 1  

Narrator (me) – “ SPEAKS ENTHUSIASTIC “ Lucy and Kim are both 15-year-old girls.Lucy like you lives in the UK in a big house. Lucy travels from the sofa to her fridge to get clean water. Kim lives in Liberia with her ill mother in a hut. Kim must travel 20 miles to get dirty water which is slowly killing her.  Until now Lucy did not realise she could save Kim’s life by giving just £1 a month

Voice actress (Lucy) – “ SPEAKS SADLY “ I met Kim and it all became real to me. I used to change the channel when these adverts would come on but now i cry because " PAUSE - ENTHUSIASTIC " i realise these are teenagers just like us and we can save their life. Please donate to Oxfam and save a life"

Narrator ( me ) : “ SPEAKS ENTHUSIASTIC  “ With your donation of £1 a month you can save other teenagers just like you. 

This advert would be played mid day 3-5. I chose this time because it is after school time / 3/4pm and a few hours before prime time 

Script 2

 Narrator (me ) : “ SPEAKS STERNLY “ Kim has to travel 20 miles to drink dirty infected water which is killing her and her family . She lives on £1.25 a day , The cost of a bottle of coke in the UK. Giving  £1 a month to Oxfam will allow Kim and other teenagers like you to live. 

Voice actress -  " SPEAKS BRITTLE/SAD " please save me . im just like you. i should be going to school, making friends. i wish i could be your friend. please donate to oxfam.

Narrator: " SPEAKS ENTHUSIASTIC "Visit www.oxfamkim.com to donate and find out how to help and communicate with teens just like Kim. Do it. Donate to Oxfam now and save a life. 

This advert however would be played in the morning ( 7am-9am ) as it is text heavy and more repetitive meaning it will stay in the listeners mind throughout the day. 

sweeney todd context

Sweeney todd : the demon barber of fleet Street is a play about a barber who indulges his murderous rage and kills important figures he associates with the " death " of his wife. Using these dead bodies his tenant mate Ms Lovett makes the best pies in London.

The style is naturalistic , the form is musical  ( this will be changed for my performance as we are focusing on a spoken monologue. ) The genre is gothic horror.

The significant relationships that my character in the play has is with Ms Lovett who is essentially in love with him whilst Sweeney is in love with his razors. They work together and kill people hence their close yet distant relationship as Sweeney ignores her requests of love and admiration.

The one secret that nobody knows about me is that I am Benjamin Barker but under the new alias and look of Sweeney Todd.

My characters aim in the play is to avenge his wife and fullfil his desire to kill which he enjoys.

My character displays a range of emotion from angry in the beginning of the monologue to emotionless at the end of the monologue as he ignores ms Lovett.

I want the audience to witness the downward spiral of his mentality as he descends further into the abyss of madness

In order to bring out the essence of my character I have used method acting to increase my accent as it helps portray a Victorian londoner. Another strategy I used to improve this accent was tongue twisters as they help me focus on specific sounds and letters and then attribute them to my characters accent.

radio advert analysis

Below is equipment found in a radio station 

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Transmitter	Takes your broadcast message from your studio room, encodes it as sine waves and transmits it as radio waves.
Receiver	The receiver receives the broadcast message and decodes the radio sine waves (simply put, a radio set).
Antenna	For sending radio signals. Required one each for transmission and receiving of radio waves.
Transmission lines	Used to transfer radio signals from one location to another. (say from the studio to the location of transmitter)
Audio Processor	Used to improve and optimize the quality of sound to be broadcast. These days this function is undertaken by inexpensive software programs.
Connectors	For connecting various equipments to each other.
Interface panel remote control	Interface panel is used to input broadcast data into transmitter (Basically an interface between studio and transmission site). Remote control is required to be able to feed those data from far off (say from your studio)
Cable	For connecting equipments located at a distance from each other.
Equipment Rack	For holding all equipments in a stable, secure and logical manner.
Power Protection equipments	To supply power and protect the equipments from unwanted power fluctuations.
UPS	For uninterrupted power supply A production house is a place in which sound and lighting is supplied for concerts , tours and events.      radio stations use music libraries in order to play their music with a scheduled order. This is beneficial to the radio stations as if a radio DJ needs a toilet break or is unavailable at their scheduled time , the music library allows them to play the playlist with no DJ necessary.              Studio facilities       A voice booth is used for recording spoken audio. This facility is used to enable dj's and guests to speak clearly into the mic and be heard over music,sound effects or any mixes.           A editing workstation is a room where all the recordings for the radio show such as adverts or songs are edited.     Production roles  A creative producer is someone who controls the creative aspect of a radio show. This could be the style of a specific show such as a halloween show where a creative producer may decide that scary sound effects ( evil laughs or screams ) will be played throughout the playlist.  A recording engineer works on the recording and manipulation of audio using equalisation and electronic effects.  A copywriter is the person who writes the text advertisement for an event or perhaps a guest appearing on the show. This copywriter can also post on social media to promote the radio show.  A voice over artist is an important part of the creation of the radio programme. The voice-over artist might be used to remind listeners of the station name or as characters to enhance or develop show content. Sometimes a celebrity commonly a musician is used to voice over the beginning of a radio station to promote the show and encourage their fans to listen to it as there is a high chance they will be played on that station.       Music The type of music in a radio advert