When writing the script for our radio drama we had to consider when we needed cues for sound affects and background activity. These were importants because then when it came to editing our radio drama and adding sound affects it would be easier and also the characters would know how to react to certain lines.
Cues are used to prompt a character that something is about to happen or prompt then that it is their turn to speak. They are normally used between different scenes to fill the spaces.
In our script we used cues and links to show when there was action happening in between the scenes. We also used silences to show that a scene may be changing and to make the audeince aware of this and had a theme tunes for the introduction and the credits at the end. We used a few scenes to create previous episodes for our radio drama and had to use a lot of cues and links to show this.
For example..
(Music plays, people chatting in the background, clinging of glasses)
Belle: You have to meet him babe, he is just amazing
Roxy: Oh I can't wait, I'm so happy for you!
Belle: I'll ring him now to come down for a drink if you like.
(telephone rings)(ringing noise whilst previous music, chatting and clinging of glasses continues)
(Max's voice comes through sounding like its coming from a telephone)
We put the cues in italics so we could tell them apart from the script. We had quite a detailed description of what was going on during the speech and just by reading the cues it gave the characters enough time to think about what lines were coming up next.
During the pervious episodes we used a fade in and out techniques whilst we had the bar music continuing throughout the scenes..
'(bar music continues)(fade in)'
Cues are used to prompt a character that something is about to happen or prompt then that it is their turn to speak. They are normally used between different scenes to fill the spaces.
In our script we used cues and links to show when there was action happening in between the scenes. We also used silences to show that a scene may be changing and to make the audeince aware of this and had a theme tunes for the introduction and the credits at the end. We used a few scenes to create previous episodes for our radio drama and had to use a lot of cues and links to show this.
For example..
(Music plays, people chatting in the background, clinging of glasses)
Belle: You have to meet him babe, he is just amazing
Roxy: Oh I can't wait, I'm so happy for you!
Belle: I'll ring him now to come down for a drink if you like.
(telephone rings)(ringing noise whilst previous music, chatting and clinging of glasses continues)
(Max's voice comes through sounding like its coming from a telephone)
We put the cues in italics so we could tell them apart from the script. We had quite a detailed description of what was going on during the speech and just by reading the cues it gave the characters enough time to think about what lines were coming up next.
During the pervious episodes we used a fade in and out techniques whilst we had the bar music continuing throughout the scenes..
'(bar music continues)(fade in)'
This is an example of what we had written on our script to make everyone aware of how the finish piece was going to be edited.
Here are a few of the cues that we used throughout the radio drama..
"Footsteps fade, sounding out of breathe, dramatic music"
"shouting loudly indicating panic"
"street traffic, people walking past, speech in a quiet muttering voice"
"roxy runs off crying, devastated and hurt and goes to see Belle, Roxy knocks on the door"
"rustles of paper, footsteps, slam of a door, cue next scene"
These are just a few of the many cues we used. We found them very helpful in our scrpit because it made the speakers aware of what was going on aswell as helping the audience to know when there is a scene change. I felt like we had included all the cues we needed in order to create a convincing drama.
