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Audio Drama Session 6
| 7th April 2009 Tonight’s session involved no formal ‘teaching’. We recorded pieces written for the session in groups. We didn’t have time to play them back. I don’t know what happened in the other groups. I learnt several things from my group. I don’t think any of them are revolutionary. But I think they are lessons well learnt because they were learnt through trial and error rather than theory. Here are some of them. A good tactic when directing a piece of radio for the first time is to rely heavily on the competence of actors. If necessary, abandon your shame, plead incompetence and beg for their help. In lieu of confidence this engenders a fear of looking shit that prompts a self-defence mechanism of creativity. Much radio appears to be the control of logistics. How far the actors are from the microphone, whether they move to you, or you move to them, how loud the ambient noise is, giving clear cues for actors to move/speak louder/quieter – all these are significant. Sarah Kane’s dictum that if you can imagine it you can stage it is as true for radio as it is for the stage. A remarkable range of settings can be created with limited resources. If you are organised, you can record radio very fast. Lateral (but logical thinking) solves problems. How do you create the ambience of a late night supermarket – with the sound of someone moving a large trolley, the ones that look like big cages. What sound do they make? The sound of their castors against the floor. What else has castors? An office chair. With a bit of extra weight it sounds like a large trolley and you have a supermarket. Different size rooms have different size sounds. An audience will believe what you tell them unless you give them reason not to. One actor with three accents = three actors. There is something thrilling knowing that you can enter a room with five other people, some basic recording equipment and a script, and fifty minutes later you have recorded a scene. John Donnelly |
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| Ben_Hassell | Don't panic | 0 | Apr 12 2009, 5:29 PM EDT by Ben_Hassell | ||
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..but there's a piece missing, by Elena Pavli called 'Don't Panic, or: how to be British and cope with something something..' sorry Elena I had to say it four times but I still can't remember the exact words. War and Terror I think.
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