P1:
TITLE 1: James Follett – Temple of the winds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h4r6y/episodes/guide
TITLE 2: Julia Darling - Pearl
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b074c3rh
P2: Moodboard of idea:
5 Group Ideas:
5 Group Ideas:
1. 'A force field surrounds west sussex - People can't leave or enter and have to hunt for food'
2. 'Unidentified ship moving towards earth. War erupts, humans vs aliens'
3. 'Alien virus on mars has infected Nasa astronauts, should they be allowed back on earth?'
4. 'Apocalypse. One family survives, they are trying to find other survivers'
5. 'Intergalactic police failing to find and capture 'space pirates' so they are passing on the task to the bounty hunter community. Meet Roland Gates A.K.A 'Stormline' can he succeed where others failed?'
Discuss story and characters and settings with group:
In our group we discussed several different plot and story ideas. One of them was an infection on Mars. Another was crew members where stuck on a ship with the oxygen supply at critical the only way out was pods but there where to many people on the ship. In our group we decided to tie both ideas together.
There were infected people on Mars and a ship comes to save the people who are surviving on Mars. They run into problems with the infected people and go through many dangerous tasks. One of the settings as it is a Sci-Fi is Mars. The reason for this is because its a radio drama anything is possible as there is nothing visual about radio dramas.
My Script Draft: Click Here
- The characters statuses are very clearly shown even without describing them.
- Cut some of the narration out about what they are doing as no one can see it. Use sounds instead.
- Use dialogue to show the setting instead of description.
P3:
Treatment 1 - 'Against all Odds' - With Moodboard.
Treatment 2 - 'Misdirection' - With Poster Advert.
Feedback on pitch to group and other groups:
P4:
Group Pitch:
Group Treatment: Click Here
GROUP PITCH: CLICK HERE
Pitch & Idea Feedback:
There were two main issues with the pitch the first being we didn't explain any of the characters in enough detail for them to understand what the characters are like, The other major issue was that we didn't explain why they were having to colonize Mars in the first place. The smaller problems involved confusing information for example one piece of feedback said they were confused with all the spaceships although we only mentioned one, this could be down to us being unclear.
Feedback Sheet:
3 Feedback Sheets: Links:
1 - Click Here
2 - Click Here
3 - Click Here
After taking in feedback we altered the treatment this is the final edited treatment:
P5:
After the group met up and discussed the idea we decided to go with Sam's idea as the group decided that we felt it was most feasible.
Treatment for 'Survival': Click Here
Sample Script Formatted:
Production Plan:
a) Recording date(s) and time(s):
Product launch date:
Why that date?:
c) Personnel/cast/crew and roles/jobs:
TITLE 1: James Follett – Temple of the winds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h4r6y/episodes/guide
TITLE 2: Julia Darling - Pearl
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b074c3rh
P2: Moodboard of idea:
5 Group Ideas:
5 Group Ideas:
1. 'A force field surrounds west sussex - People can't leave or enter and have to hunt for food'
2. 'Unidentified ship moving towards earth. War erupts, humans vs aliens'
3. 'Alien virus on mars has infected Nasa astronauts, should they be allowed back on earth?'
4. 'Apocalypse. One family survives, they are trying to find other survivers'
5. 'Intergalactic police failing to find and capture 'space pirates' so they are passing on the task to the bounty hunter community. Meet Roland Gates A.K.A 'Stormline' can he succeed where others failed?'
Discuss story and characters and settings with group:
In our group we discussed several different plot and story ideas. One of them was an infection on Mars. Another was crew members where stuck on a ship with the oxygen supply at critical the only way out was pods but there where to many people on the ship. In our group we decided to tie both ideas together.
There were infected people on Mars and a ship comes to save the people who are surviving on Mars. They run into problems with the infected people and go through many dangerous tasks. One of the settings as it is a Sci-Fi is Mars. The reason for this is because its a radio drama anything is possible as there is nothing visual about radio dramas.
Feedback from Charlie:
- The first paragraph dragged on a little bit.
- Hook the audience in by using sound effects.- The characters statuses are very clearly shown even without describing them.
- Cut some of the narration out about what they are doing as no one can see it. Use sounds instead.
- Use dialogue to show the setting instead of description.
P3:
Treatment 1 - 'Against all Odds' - With Moodboard.
Treatment 2 - 'Misdirection' - With Poster Advert.
Feedback on pitch to group and other groups:
The feedback I got on my pitch was that I could slow down when explaining and give more detail about characters and what they're like. Overall I explained the outline of the story well but had more time and could have gone into more detail.
P4:
Group Pitch:
Group Treatment: Click Here
Screenshots of our Pitch:
GROUP PITCH: CLICK HERE
Pitch & Idea Feedback:
There were two main issues with the pitch the first being we didn't explain any of the characters in enough detail for them to understand what the characters are like, The other major issue was that we didn't explain why they were having to colonize Mars in the first place. The smaller problems involved confusing information for example one piece of feedback said they were confused with all the spaceships although we only mentioned one, this could be down to us being unclear.
Feedback Sheet:
3 Feedback Sheets: Links:
1 - Click Here
2 - Click Here
3 - Click Here
After taking in feedback we altered the treatment this is the final edited treatment:
P5:
After the group met up and discussed the idea we decided to go with Sam's idea as the group decided that we felt it was most feasible.
Treatment for 'Survival': Click Here
Sample Script Formatted:
Production Plan:
a) Recording date(s) and time(s):
29th April: 1pm-2pm, 3pm-3.30pm
4th May: 10am-10:30am, 10:45am-11:15am
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Product launch date:
June 3rd
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Why that date?:
The Friday during May half term, it’s the time that college and universities are off timetable so it is available to the mid demographic.
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b) Resources and equipment needed:
Microphones, recording equipment, audio editing software, studio, voice actors, director, editor, sound technician, sound effect tools
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c) Personnel/cast/crew and roles/jobs:
Cast
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Character
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Kacper Balkota
Adam Holland
Daniel Welch
Daniel Pritchard
Sam Tindall
Charlie Brett
Adam Holland
Daniel Pritchard
Daniel Welch
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Gavin
Martin
Worker 1
Worker 2
Boss
Skip
Captain
Ship
Pilot 1
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Crew
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Role
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Sam Tindall
Adam Holland
Sam Tindall
Sam Tindall
Adam Holland
Kacper Balkota
Daniel Welch
Daniel Pritchard
Charlie Brett
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Director
Producer
Writer
Actor
Actor
Actor
Actor
Actor
Actor
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d) Budget:
If professional:
Expenses:
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Total:
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£50 a day for each actor / 2 days
4 Microphones / £69 per microphone Adobe Audition Editing Software Food for crew Booking out quiet places for recording |
£500
£276 £21.50 £50 Varies |
Total: £847.50
If student:
Equipment Provided by College:
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Budget:
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-Microphones
-Quiet room -Editing Software -Computer |
No budget, we don't need to pay for anything, equipment and props provided & we have consent forms from the voice actors within our group.
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e) Legal & ethical issues & how you resolved them:
Issue
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Resolved by…
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Strong language
Fire hazards
Slips, trips and falls Emergencies
Racial language or words References to companies or brands Violence (gun or physical) Needing to have diverse characters Different statuses for different people |
Airing after water shed
Fire extinguisher and emergency exits
Check space for trip and slip hazards.
Always one first aider present in the building.
None will be used in the final radio drama Will not use any in the script. None of this put in the final script The original script had diverse characters although as this was a student project we didn't find the time to hire anybody for this so we had to make changes and just use what we had. None used in this radio drama |
Merit:
How did you take into account season or calendar events when planning your launch date?
- We planned our launch date for Friday 3rd June because of it being May half term and therefore Colleges, Universities, Sixth forms and secondary schools will be off for holiday allowing them to have the time off to listen in on our radio drama launch and leading up to it they will have the time to notice the advertising and will know when our launch date is, overall we planned our launch date at a time suitable for our target audience by taking into account calendar events for schools and this helped us decide the final launch date.
How are your timescales, launch date and budget realistic and feasible?
Our project is feasible with the budget because as this is a student project we need no budget because we have the recording equipment already available to us and we only had 6 characters in our script and we had enough voice actors within our group to do it without having to hire voice actors, in the end we just got permission from each group member so that we could use them in the radio drama. Our launch date is feasible because it is a new radio drama played on a Friday night for young adults to listen to, this would be normal for this time and date as it is a time where many young adult viewers can listen in and this means that it has the potential to be very successful, also this time slot isn't taken by any other radio drama and therefore we would be able to have it on.
Distinction:
Distinction:
Contingency plan:
- If a voice actor is ill and can't be there for recording - Record a different day or get a new voice actor.
- If the recording room is booked already - Book another time slot or see if another room can be used instead.
- Script is not finished for the recording - Wait until it has been complete, work as a team to get it done together or record anyway and just try out different lines.
- Loud noises in the background (people talking, walking, door slams etc.) - Record another time, ask people politely if they can be quiet, put a sign up saying recording in progress or let the rooms near us know that we are recording.
Revise pre-production based on feedback:
I revised my pre-production based on the script and treatment based on the feedback I got and the changes I made where;
Treatment changes:
- Wrote what year it was set in.
- Put a few more details on the main two characters plus a little description of two more characters.
- I added another few things about the storyline and what it leads on to.
- I put more information on the target audience slide about who specifically would like it and what type of person they would be.
- I also added some more pictures to each slide and a bit of colour.
Script changes:
- Corrected all grammar and spelling mistakes.
- Added a few more sound effects and parentheticals.
- Changed lines so that they where easier and more natural for people to say.
- Took out any unnecessary lines.
- Changed the characters so that instead of about 8 different voice actors it became 5 or 6 as I worked out who could play two or more characters and that it would make sense to combine two different characters as one because of how similar they are and that they are in different scenes.
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