radio drama ideas 1: of character,setting,accents and plot...

 

This mindmap summed up our first ideas about the radio drama. In lesson we created a basic structure of a narrative, wrote down what appropriate settings and locations would be and developed our main characters by choosing their names and roles.
As a group we made a mind map of ideas for our radio drama, we first thought of different story line ideas, that we could uses for a plot from looking at what we did previously thinking of doing a horror and looking at myths and legends we thought we would be different and we come up with the idea of a drama based on two fashion designers that are competing against each other. the story was based on two characters that were good vs evil, young vs old, hero vs villain. the characters we created were Lauren who is the main protagonist she is a young  girl who previously worked for Vivienne but ex-boss was jealous of her ideas  and sacked her so new designer  Lauren is just starting out who is a big girl in a big city trying to pursue her dreams and Vivienne who is the other leading character (villain) is  a women in her late 40s who clothes are dying out since Lauren's left her business, Vivienne is trying to wreck Laurens career  in the radio drama. we were influenced by a lot of films and TV shows such as devil wears Prada, Material Girl and Ugly Betty. other characters we included were Chris who is Laurens boyfriend and Roxy who is Lauren's best friend and assistant and we also had Jeffrey who is Vivienne's personal assistant. we thought of different accents we could include in our drama we thought that Vivienne could have a strong, deep french accent, which with a strong accent it sounds like she has authority compared to Lauren who has a soft spoken voice with a little London accent. the genre is a bit of a comedy drama as we want in our script some funny areas to engage with the listener and make them intrigued with the story line of whats happening next!. we thought of different locations for our drama and we thought of London as we can create different sound effects anywhere such as car sounds, music, clapping, high heels other settings were a hall for where a fashion show can be held, and on busy streets where there walking, more recognized sounds so the viewer knows whats going on. as i have listened to many radio dramas and have got confused where exactly the location and sound etc were so i want it to be quite easy to imagine in the audiences mind.

the plot idea for our radio drama was the first state of equilibrium: is Lauren is hosting a fashion show and every thing is running smoothly, then there is disruption: as Vivienne finds out about Lauren hosting a fashion show and Vivienne plans to ruin Laurens show by hosting one herself. then theirs recognition: as Lauren finds out about Vivienne show and Vivienne personal assistant Jeffrey has to ruin the dress. then repair: the ruined dress is a success  and the new equilibrium is Lauren is happy and gets heard by all other designers etc a step in to her career and Vivienne is left with no one at her fashion show.