Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Ideas on genre and conventions for radio drama

As a group we made a mind map based on different genres and the conventions of that genre, we did this to see what type of genre we wanted to develop with our radio drama. as a class we had been looking at different myths and legends for a storyline for our drama. we first thought of doing a horror radio drama as they are more engaging with the audience and thought sound effects would be easy for it. we thought that it would be too easy and predictable just like many horror radio dramas so we thought we would be different and choose a different genre.
we were thinking of Creating a radio drama aimed at young people, teenage/early 20 year olds, is new and exciting and the plot would have to be relevant to todays society. Therefore the group found it important to think of a strong, unique storyline to engage a  young contemporary audience. many of the radio dramas we have listened too, have been male orientated such as war of the worlds, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy etc and the male characters in them were male so we thought we would have a female protagonist.

No comments:

Post a Comment