Sunday, 21 February 2010

Radio Drama genre and comparisons with alternative media formats


After researching a lot of radio dramas, I found that ours was in the genre of 'Teenage Drama'. In comparision with other media products, 'The Archers' relates very well to ours because it is also a radio drama. Even though we made out radio drama a public drama 'The Archers' is a radio soap opera set in the fictional English village of Ambridge. It provides contemporary drama in a rural setting. Our drama is the opposite and is set in an urban area which you can tell by all the traffic that we have added into our radio drama. I feel that our radio drama really reaches the genre that we wanted it too. The target audience was teenagers and I feel that after listening to it, mainly teenagers would listen to it.
If we were to produce our radio drama into other media products, I think it could be made into a television drama stretching out over a series. I think this would work because there was so much going on in our drama that it would be possible to have lots of episodes but making the scenes a bit more dramatic and more detailed. However, due to it being a radio drama the only visual components are the ones that you imagine in your head by the script we have created.
Also another media product that we could create would be a book, this is where we actually got the idea for our plot. I think this would be a good media product to produce because it uses all the same components expect for sound. We would still have to include all the description for different scenes. I think by writing it as a book it would be a lot more detailed about the settings and certain actions that the characters are doing.