U14 & U16 - Radio drama final edit

Radio Drama: The Life of Ashley - https://youtu.be/SRZBOk-j33w

Production Log Week 8

Production Log Week 7

Production Log Week 6

U14 & U16 - Evaluation

U14 & U16 - Production Journey

On my first lesson of creating our radio drama, I created a new project on Garageband (the software that we are editing our radio drama on). We
then started to create different tracks which would include dialogue from different characters, sound effects/music, a jingle, and the
presenters who introduce the radio drama. This would help us to clearly identify the different types of sounds and helps us to overlap sound effects/music with the dialogue.We then started our offline edit by recording the dialogue.

To record our dialogue, we used the USB Microphone, as we thought this was the most effective at recording our voices and would produce the best results. We printed off our script which we prepared during pre-production and gave them to the people who would be recording with us. We got our presenters and small actors to record with us first. After this, my partner and I recorded the rest of the radio drama, as we were the main characters. When recording we made sure that there was no background noises or disruptions. We then uploaded this to YouTube as our 'Offline edit'.

Next, we started our Final edit for our radio drama. From the feedback we received about our offline edit from the audience's questionnaires and our teacher, we wanted to add several features to our radio drama. This includes foley sounds/sound effects, music, a jingle and post credits.
First, we wanted to record some foley sounds for the radio drama to make it sound more realistic and will also help the audience to identify the location of each scene. To record the foley sounds we used a voice recorder, which was easy to carry around with us. The Foley sounds we created includes phone notifications, iPhone ringtone, a bus and a train. The phone notifications and ringtone tells the audience that the character has a phone with them and are receiving messages. The sound of a bus moving was recreated when we went on a bus and recorded the sounds so the listeners would know when the characters are on the bus. We then went to the train station to record the sound of a train approaching. This would be used at the very end of our radio drama when the character is about to die. This helps to create a tense atmosphere and tells the audience what is happening. We then imported the foley sounds from the voice recorder into the Apple iMac and onto our editing software. To do this, we connected the voice recorder to the iMac. It would then show a file on the desktop which had all of the audio files we recorded, which we would drag from the folder and into Garageband.

We then decided to make a jingle for our radio station, 'Chadwell Heath Radio'. To do this, we used a jingle from Garageband. On top of this, we wanted to add a voice saying "This is Chadwell Heath Radio" which had a high pitch tone, so we downloaded an app that allowed us to change the pitch of the audio. We then added this to the start of our radio drama.

Next, we started searching for copyright free music to include at the beginning/end of our radio drama and during our radio drama, to transition from one scene to the next. This informs the audience that the next dialogue is from a different scene in the radio drama. We found music on YouTube, which we then converted to an MP3 audio file so we could import it into Garageband. The music we used helped to build suspenseful atmosphere throughout the drama.

Once we had our jingle, dialogue, music and foley sounds ready. We made sure they were in order and edited them to make it flow better.
We cut or deleted any audio clips that were too long or that had unwanted sounds/disruptions in them. We also changed the volume of the audio on some of the clips, as some were either too loud or too quiet.

We used an AIFF file format to export our sounds for our radio drama, as we thought it would be most suitable for us as due to the fact that we are using an Apple iMac.




We wanted the audio clips be the same volume throughout the radio drama.
We adjusted the volume of the sounds by pressing 'A' on the iMac keyboard. This would show us a yellow line. This is the automation tool where we would be able to increase/decrease the volume and also fade the audio clips to make it flow better. We created several control points along the yellow line. We could either drag these up or down to change the volume. I did this to the beginning and end of the music clips to make the audio fade to the next scene. I also did this to the dialogue of the actors and presenters as the volume was either too loud or to quiet.

After everything was edited and complete, we exported it to iTunes. We then opened up Final Cut pro and added the audio from iTunes. Then we created a photo to be shown whilst playing the radio drama audio. Lastly, we exported the video and uploaded it to YouTube: https://youtu.be/SRZBOk-j33w

Task Allocation - Week 8

U14 & U16 - SWOT Analysis of draft

U14 & 16 - Offline edit

https://youtu.be/mYGcjEJoi8Q

Task Allocation - Week 7

U14 & U16 - Analysis of Feedback

We asked the audience to listen to our radio drama draft and give feedback on it. We got feedback from two people in the 14-19 age range, one person from the 20-30 age range and one person from the 31-45 age range. Two of which were females and the remaining two were males. Therefore, we gathered feedback from our target audience (14-45 year olds). This gave us good feedback about what our target audience likes when listening to radio dramas. We gained mainly qualitative data so we got more information on how we could improve our radio drama to suit our audience.

We asked questions about their likes and dislikes of our radio drama draft and asked them how we could improve. The feedback we got told us that the audience felt that we should include more foley sounds in our radio drama to make it more realistic. Also, someone said that we should include music when transitioning scenes, as it will make it more clear to the audience. Another person said that we should record one or two sentences again as they were a bit quieter from the rest of the dialogue. We will take this feedback into consideration to improve our radio drama. 

We also gained positive feedback about our radio drama. The audience thought that the storyline was very interesting and has informed and educated them about the impacts of social media. They were also entertained by the characters in the radio drama.

Overall, the feedback we gained from the audience was very informative and helpful and we can now add these improvements into our final radio drama to make it better.

Improvements:
- Add foley sounds
- Add music transitions
- Re do some of our voice recordings
- Add a jingle

U14 & U16 - Audience Feedback

Task Allocation - Week 6

U14 & U16 - Rushes Log

U14 & 16 - Funding

U14 & U16 - Production Log Week 5

U14 & U16 - Task Allocation Week 5

U14 & 16 - Production schedule

U14 & 16 - Regulatory bodies

U14 & U16 - Production Log Week 4

U14 & U16 - Production Log Week 3

 

U14 & U16 - Task Allocation Week 4

U14 & 16 - Audio Script Storyboard for Radio Drama

U14 & 16 - Location Recce

U14 & 16 - Audio assets

U14 & 16 - Considerations

We will be using an AIFF Sound format to export our sound for our radio drama. This is because an AIFF file is an Apple proprietary format and lossless. As we are using an Apple iMac, this would be most suitable for us. It directly copies the original audio and maintains high quality sound. Therefore, our radio drama will have high quality sounds.  

We will store our sound file on a cloud drive on the iMac. Cloud drive is a web-based service that provides storage space on a remote server. An advantage is that stored files can be accessed from anywhere via Internet connection. Therefore, it will not be difficult to gather all of our sounds together for editing. Also, all cloud storage services have desktop folders for Mac’s. This allows us to drag and drop files between the cloud storage and our local storage.

We will be also using an Upward compression.This involves processing that squashes the quieter elements while leaving the loud bits alone. In our radio drama, most of our sounds will be loud, therefore these sounds will still be heard in the drama.

U14 & 16 - Health and Safety Risk Assesment

U14 & 16 - Key Personnel List

Key Personnel List for Radio Drama

U14 & 16 - Voice Artist Release Forms