Sunday
Tuesday
Poster research and analysis
Radio Drama Posters, themselves, are hard to find, however as sampled above and from TV drama posters I can pull together a closer idea of what to use as general style model.
Radio drama posters usually tend to have images of a full cast, as introduction to the characters, or something that holds high relevance to the content of the radio drama itself as a teaser. Both of which are usually of simple design. With reference to earlier blog entries and using these we can see how location shots help the audience to understand the drama better (The Archers).
Looking at 'Truth... over the airwaves!', we see how this poster abides classic codes and conventions, adhering to a sense of 60's style. This creates both a sense of nostalgia to the audience and sense of 'retro' to a younger audience, appealing to both. Having the only image of who's involved as caricatures, it hints to the style of the peace and keeps mystery at the same time.
"Having" is a more classic radio drama style poster, having the main focus on an image that gives hint to what the narrative is. From this image, we can derive themes of wealth, via the large house and expensive car coupled with the fact that she is wearing a suit, and suggested legality, her style and body language with interaction with props almost suggests that she appears to be reading a press statement.
With the only coloured text on a black and white poster being in the production teams name, this promotes ideas of recognition, that they are well known and official.
Wednesday
Editing, session two.
Having regulated our mishap and finally having a proper chance to edit, we each settled on a scene to begin editing.
I chose the opening scene, and considering the location and sound effects needed I had to take the following into account:
- Gary and his friends are in the pub
- Gary's two friend's voices needed to be pitch shifted
- Gary's mobile needs a message tone
- Gary gulps the rest of his pint before leaving
After been shown how to use Soundtrack Pro to edit, e.g the blade tool, lowering and rising volume levels, blending in sound effects. We got on with it, admittedly things were slow to begin with, being unfamiliar with the sound effects available and the software at hand, but over time we got more and more adept at it.
The section I had most trouble with, aside finding the most perfect background accompaniment and individual sound effects, was the pitch shifting of Lisa's and my voices. I had to slice the track and place it onto a second row to then edit using the available effects at hand then play with them accordingly to get the desired effects.
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