P1
'Survival' Formatted Script: First 2 Pages:
Treatment: Click Here
First 3 Slides of 'Survival' Treatment:
Production Plan/ Schedule:
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
- ensure it fits with relevant seasonal or calendar event
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
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£500
£276
£21.50
£50
Varies
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Total: £847.50
If student:
Equipment Provided by College:
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Budget:
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-Microphones
-Quiet room
-Editing Software
-Computer
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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
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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 |
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.
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 parenthetical.
- 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.
P2:
Location and Recce outcomes for 'Survival':
When recording we are using the room D113 at long road as we were able to book it out for recording, it has a few tables which means we can have the zoom microphones on the table instead of having to hold them. The room is large enough to fit all 5 of us and it didn’t have a bad echo in the room so it is perfect for our recording of the dialogue. The room wasn’t too cramped and wasn’t too warm or cold and was good for the voice actors to use.
The second room was smaller and had more of an echo but it worked for the dialogue, the scenes where the characters are in a smaller space is more convincing. There was seating in the room so the voice actors were comfortable however the table in the room was below the level of the chairs meaning they had to hold the zoom microphone or lean forward uncomfortably to speak into it if it was on the table.
The third room we used was extremely cramped and wasn’t very good at keeping outside sounds out. Meaning conversations outside the room could be heard, however it meant we could all sit comfortably around the microphone and we could be heard clearly.
P3:
Legal and ethical issues for 'Survival':
Survival is a radio drama, which has characters that speak differently, however there aren’t any characters of other ethnicities this is because we didn’t have the means of getting actors to play these roles, if we had actors of a different ethnicity the script would have been changed to show this variation.
The radio drama doesn’t feature themes such as terrorism or law breaking in any scenes, which means there aren’t any legal issues and the time it will be played is after the watershed meaning that people of an inappropriate age won’t be able to listen to it. This has been decided as there is themes of violence, smoking and use of swearing in the radio drama.
P4:
We followed the typical production process for a radio drama by first writing a script, everyone in the group wrote a script each and we decided on which script/idea we should put forward and produce. After choosing our favourite script we figured out what voices we will need and decided on who will voice each character, this was easy to decide as we had enough people in the group to voice the characters. The next step in the production process was to record the actual dialogue, we did this in a quiet room using a recording device. After we recorded the dialogue, we listened through it to check for any bad recordings or mistakes, if there were any, we went to re-record, also in a quiet room. Once we got all the dialogue recorded, the only thing that was left to do was to put it all together and edit, we did this using a a audio editing software called 'Adobe Audition'. Once the editing was finished we exported the final piece and uploaded it online.
How did we follow safe working practices?
When recording the dialogue for our radio drama we made sure the area had no hazards, we made sure there was no bags, cables or equipment on the floor so there was no risk of tripping. We also tested the equipment to make sure it worked before we went. The chairs and tables in the rooms were all working so they didn't cause any hazards. We made sure we were all sat down and we weren't moving around, this was because it was easier to record and it prevented any incidents.
When recording the folly effects we made sure we weren't doing anything dangerous to get the sound effects, for example instead of going to a construction site which has many hazards we recorded separate sounds with different objects then we put them together.
Final Radio Drama : Click Here
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