Listening Task

You are
want)

required to listen to the first 5 minutes of each of the following (You can listen to more if you
Everyday Time Machines (nominated for best single drama)
Dark Passenger (horror)
The Troll of Stoney brook

Note down what sounds you hear and how you know where they are and what is happening. The point
of Radio drama is to set the scene through SOUND rather than visual

Drama
Everyday
Time
Machines
What is drama
about?

Use of sound

Use of
Narrative

Use of Music

(Back ground
sounds for
location
settings)

(How are they

talking)

Music to
show the
emotion of
the
characters in
key parts of
the drama

Sound used for

every action,
even a fumbling
of an object

Introduction has
a narration of
the narrative of
the piece

Use of
silence
Used to build
tension but
timed to
seem
realistic in
dialogue

Characters
or narrator

Two Males

Time and
about how it
works, using
narrative as
a time
machine
Dark
Passenger

What is drama
about?

Two teenage
friends start
scaring each
other on the
drive to a
dismal
haunted
house on the
coast of
Maine
The Troll of
Stoney Brook

What is drama
about?

An awkward
teenager,
Jamie, is
driving home
one night
from a party
when he hits
something

Realistic, use
mainly
diegetic,
sound used
to show
location, for
example car
sounds when
in car, also
car radio
enforces
that.

Mainly
Diegetic,
using sound
effects to
progress the
story. Weird
noises to
interpret the
weird
situation

Narration to
set the
scene at the
start of the
drama,
Then used to
show time
passing

Mainly
Diegetic at
the start

Traveling has
silence

Main
character
introduces
the drama
by
explaining a
loose story
of what
happened.

Background
music to
represent
the party

Awkward
tension

(How many?
Male / female?)
All male, main
character seems
ordinary, woken
up by another
charcter talking
about a death of
a known friend.
This continues to
the professor,
seemingly smart
from tone.

Friends that
seem to get
along in
ways two
males would,
bickering yet
showing
friendship,
enjoys
scaring one
another

Three male
and one
Female
Cool kid,
blazing,
female
interest of the
main
character,
seems
awkward, and
main
character
responsible,
yet unsecure
about
everything