Location Details

The story will set in Hackney, London and these are the several locations that will take place in several scenes:

• H.M.P Pentonville – Caledonian Rd, London N7 8TT: The prison scenes will take place here where he is released from prison and the times he had with the man who took of care of Scott in prison.
• King Edward Road – Nearest Route – A503: This will be Brock and Dan’s place where Brock’s death and the final confrontation between Scott and Dan will take place.
• Trowbridge Road – Nearest Route – A12: This will be the Dion and Jerome’s place where the shootout will take place, it’s nearest attraction is the Olympic Village at the Hackney Wick.
• Beaumont Road – Nearest Route – A124, A112: This will be Lucy’s place near Newham University Surgery where Lucy works.
• Metropolitan Police Service – Bethnal Green Police Station, 12 Victoria Park Square, City of London, London, Greater London E2 9NZ – Nearest Route – B119, A107: This will the police station in which the final scene between Smith and Scott takes place.

Character Development

For my radio drama story, Exciderunt, I improved its character development compared to the treatment I worked on, so there’s more detailed background about the characters.

Scott – will be the main protagonist for the story. Born on the 17th December 1984, he is currently unemployed as he was released from prison after he committed a crime that he believe he didn’t commit. He had a car accident 10 years before he was released from prison and caused him anterograde amnesia which means he has short term memory loss. Because of that, he believes he didn’t commit the crime that he did 10 years ago, which involved a bank heist and killing a security guard. His appearance shows him as slightly toned and rough after his times in prison, and his attributes he had before the accident includes cocky and confident. He has a very close relationship with his brother no matter how bad their situations are. He was mainly influenced by the punk movement, and worship bands like The Sex Pistols. His favourite films includes The Long Good Friday, Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Although he has the presence of having the hero archetypes, as darker secrets soon reveal, he will start becoming like an antagonist, which challenges the stereotypical idea of protagonists being heroes. We also begin to realise his convoluted feelings as his vengeance is derived not only by his accident, but the pain he didn’t feel over the years because of his short term memory loss. So he would be considered as a three dimensional character.

Dan – Scott’s brother, born on 9th July 1980. Although he won’t be introduced properly until the last act of the story, he is considered as one of the main characters as he is mainly involved with the situation that derived Scott seeking revenge. Flashbacks of the relationship between him and Scott will show how close they really are. He has similar tastes as Scott’s, which he also worships the punk movement and British crime comedy films. He is more toned than Scott, as being the bigger brother, Dan is a lot stronger physically and emotionally. Although he deals with real life situations, He does unrealistic actions, like robbing a bank and abusing Scott’s mental state.

Detective John Smith – born on 2nd November 1981, used to be uniformed officer 5 years ago, he’s now a private detective for the Criminal Investigation Department. As a uniformed officer 10 years ago, he was involved with Scott’s murder case, which he believed Scott was innocent. After Scott was proved guilty, Smith decided to become a police detective as he believed that the Police Department isn’t doing their jobs right, and being a detective helps gather more evidence to prove a man innocent or guilty. After finding out Scott’s parole and early release, he decided to finish the case, proving his innocence by investigating who framed Scott. His character is more open minded which contrasts the stereotypical police officers who only thinks about arresting criminals without considering their point of view. He always observe everything, making every little detail important. He wears a suit and is emotionally reserved (no emotion) which mainly reinforces the Hollywood stereotype of detectives being mysterious.

Results – Graphs

Out of 5 respondents  all of them are in the age of 16-20 years, 2 of them are male and 3 are female, these were the results for the radio drama survey:

These results shows that 60% of the people in the age of 16-20 years always go to the internet and 40% always watch television while they sometimes listen to radio and read newspapers and magazine which shows that the younger demographic are less interested in radio which could be something to improve for my radio drama piece.

This bar chart shows how often they listen to radio and 80% of the vote responded that they listen to radio 1-6 hours per week.

This bar chart shows what their favourite station is and 80% of the vote responded with BBC Radio 1 which is the most popular radio station in the UK, while 20% responded with Heart FM which is the one of the mainstream pop station. It shows that the young demographic only listen to radio for music or news instead of radio dramas.

This pie chart shows how many people have listened to a radio drama before and 60% of the vote which are in the age of 16-20 years said no. I wouldn’t say it’s a surprise as the younger demographic interacts with other media more like the internet and television. These were the responses when I asked if they’ve ever listened to a radio drama, and if yes what’s their favourite station, and if no, why:

One of the responses shows that the young demographic only listen to radio for music instead of radio dramas. Although one responded that their favourite radio drama is Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds so maybe the science fiction genre could interest the younger demographic.

This chart shows how many people like a certain genre and 40% of the vote chose drama and romance as one of their favourite genre while 20% chose crime/thriller, horror and mystery. I could maybe infuse two certain genres to interest the audience more.

This shows what they want to hear in a radio drama and 80% of the vote replied with music. Again, this illustrates that they only listen to music in radio. However, 60% responded that they would likely want to hear sound effects and 20% likely wants character development within the radio drama.

I also asked the respondents on how they could improve radio dramas so it would interest broader audiences and around 40% skipped the question, while 60% replied with:

“Explosions!”

It seemed to be the only thing that could interest the audience which doesn’t really make an accurate conclusion on how radio dramas can be improved.

My radio drama’s target audience are mainly 18-25 demographic and the responses for my survey are 16-20, and there wasn’t enough respondents to make an accurate conclusion which made my research slightly difficult, but I will use some of these information for my radio drama as I believe it has made me realise what would interest my target audience because it would be the opposite of what the respondents, which are the younger demographic, has responded with the survey. I will still use some information from the results, like using music and sound effects and infusing some genres to interest the target audience.

Target Audience

We decided our target audience will be the age of 18-30 years with mostly male audience, and mainly working class with a multicultural ethnicity. We believe it will appeal to the age of 18-30 years because of its dark tone of the narrative, perhaps anyone younger than 18 years old would find the ending, swearing and some violent scenes too shocking, while it mainly interests the male audience as the most characters in the story are male and maybe they could relate to one of them. At first we thought it would interest the upper/middle class for its convoluted narrative but the characters are working class; mainly the thugs, and the working class could relate to the characters. While we decided it will interest a multicultural audience as we try not to be offensive to a certain cultural society, so we included characters like Jin Ling and the thugs.

Genre – Psychological Thriller

Our group have chosen a genre and it will be psychological thriller. The stereotypical aspects of a psychological thriller usually includes a non-linear narrative or flashbacks, some twists and turns, and involves a back story for the main character, and consistent themes include identity, perception, death and mind with some realism. For example, Christopher Nolan’s Memento is loosely influenced for our radio drama for its main character’s state of having anterograde amnesia. Also, films like The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable influences the twist endings of most psychological thrillers. I don’t believe it would create a problem when transferring these styles into radio as most of these doesn’t necessarily involve a visual element and psychological thrillers mainly focuses on the narrative. And these rules has to be there in order “supervise” filmmaker’s production and audience’s reading (Ryall).

It would be difficult to challenge these aspects and make it as entertaining and intriguing as possible as they were made this way to interest a certain target audience, so if I change the structures and styles; chronological narrative and one dimensional characters, it would seem boring to the audience.

FINAL RADIO TREATMENT – Exciderunt

This thriller drama revolves around a man with anterograde amnesia and seeks revenge for being charged of killing a security officer during a bank heist. It is influenced to films like Memento and The Lookout and film noirs like LA Confidential for its setting and narrative. This story would interest the target audience, which is an age group of 18-25 along with a mixed gender audience, because of its neo-noir style and its heavy focus on the unstable emotional states of characters as the story progresses, especially Scott. Although its structure will be in chronological order, it will have flashbacks that will relate to the film and twists will be revealed as the film progresses. It covers the themes of revenge, perception and memory.

Characters

• Scott Vaughan – 28 years old, has a short term memory loss due to a car accident
• Dan Vaughan – 32 years old, Scott’s brother
• Detective John Smith – Officer investigating and finishing Scott’s murder case
• Brock, Dion and Jerome – The thugs involved with the bank heist
• Lucy Vaughan – Scott’s sister
• Jin Ling – Security Guard who was killed during a bank heist
• Detective Peter Buswell – Officer 2

Plot

Set in Hackney, Scott, who has anterograde amnesia due to a car accident, was jailed for 25 years for the murder of Jin Ling, a security guard that he didn’t know he committed, after a bank heist that he didn’t know went wrong. After parole decided to release him early due to his mental state and his good behaviour, he seeks revenge for the people who, he believes, framed him.

While Officer John Smith, who worked with the murder case 10 years ago and disagreed with the verdict of Scott being guilty, decided to find more evidence and “finish” the case. A flashback 10 years ago is shown when Smith asked Scott if he did it, and Scott replied, “I don’t know if I did it or not, but somehow I deserve it”.

Scott visits her sister, Lucy, and gives her his notepad containing his rough times in prison, including his interaction with a man who took care of him, who was then executed. He then asks Lucy what happened to him and his brother Dan. She said she only knows that Dan was killed by a group who was involved in a bank heist. She then gives his keys to his old place.

He goes to his old place and finds a notepad which contains every memory he had ever since his recovery till the time he went to prison. He finds out that the last half of the notepad is ripped off but he finds an address in the notepad that could lead to the group who was involved.

Meanwhile, Smith arrives at Lucy’s place and asks her where Scott is now and where Dan used to live, hopefully find some more evidence about Scott, and she gives Dan’s address which is the same address that Scott found in the notepad. As Smith leaves, Lucy phones someone (unknown to the audience) and tells them to be careful as she thinks Smith might be onto him.

Scott goes to the address written on the notepad, which is Dan’s place, and finds Brock, one of the men involved. He tortures Brock for information. Brock revealed him that the other two men involved, Dion and Jerome, ran off with the money they stole from the bank heist and told them where they are now. He then shoots Brock point blank.

Smith arrives at Dan’s place and finds the Brock’s dead body. He investigates the place and finds a sent text message to Dion to be aware. He then searches Dion’s profile and finds an address.

Scott arrives at Dion and Jerome’s place and realising that Scott’s out for revenge, starts a shootout and ends up killing Jerome and injure Dion. Scott prepares to kill Dion, but he reveals to Scott that Dan is still alive, and where he lives now.

Smith arrives at the crime scene, he investigates the place and finds Jerome’s phone. He finds a very recent missed call from an unknown number, which happens to be Dan’s. He tries calling the number, and while waiting, continues to investigate the place. Dan answers and asks where Jerome is now, and Smith replies, “Who is this?”, and Dan hangs up. He sees a picture of Dion, Jerome, Brock and Dan together and realises Dan and the group planned the whole thing. Smith goes back to Dan’s place and asks the police for backup.

Scott goes back to Dan’s place and reunites with Dan. Scott, starts assuming that Dan is involved, points a gun at him and asks what really happened. Dan reveals that he planned the whole bank heist and that after Scott’s recovery from the car accident, Dan used him as an advantage and asks him to help as he thinks there’d be no flaws to the plan and they need the money for Scott’s “treatment”.

A flashback then occur in which during the bank heist, Scott accidently shot Ling as an act of self defence, and they all flee from the scene. Feeling guilty, Scott wrote what he did to his notepad but Dan ripped it off, protecting them from the police. Soon as the evidence are turning against them, Dan betrayed him and “confessed” that he wasn’t involved and that Scott planned the whole thing and killed the guard.

Filled with rage, Scott shoots Dan in the shoulder multiple times. Horrified about what he had just done, Scott helps him stop the bleeding. Dan apologizes to him and admitted he wanted Scott to know he was dead so he wouldn’t be a suspect to the bank heist. Dan then dies from blood loss. Scott burns the notepad to avoid being a suspect and suddenly looks horrified as he finds Dan’s body on the floor after not remembering what just happened. He then calls the police and holds Dan’s body. The police and Smith arrive and take Scott to the station for questions.

At the station, Smith asks who killed Dan, and Scott doesn’t respond. Smith is then asked to go back to Brock’s place for evidence and just as he leaves, he asks if he did it and Scott responds, “I don’t know if I did it or not, but somehow I deserve it”.

Here is an example of the script:

SCENE 1 – POLICE STATION

SCENE BEGINS WITH NOISES BEING HEARD IN THE BACKGROUND, INCLUDING TELEPHONE RINGS, PEOPLE CHATTING AND KEYBOARD BEING TYPED. A DOOR IS HEARD BEING OPENED THEN CLOSED. EVERYTHING GOES SILENT, THEN FOOTSTEPS ARE HEARD, STOPS AND A PILE OF PAPERWORK IS SLAMMED TO THE TABLE. PAGES ARE BEING TURNED WHILE OFFICER SMITH’S DIALOGUE IS HEARD.

OFFICER SMITH:       So Scott Vaughan. 21 years old. It says here that you were charged for the murder of Jin Ling, on December 15^th 2002, at 40 Islington High Street, London. What’s your defence?

BRIEF SILENCE INDICATING NO RESPONSE.

OFFICER SMITH: Look, I need you to work with me here, Scott. I’m here to help you.

Radio Treatment – The Feud

The Feud is a crime thriller drama for the target audience of 18-40 years along with a mixed gender audience. The story revolves around Jake Costello, who is the son of Mob boss of the Costello gang, who falls in love with Amber Stracci, who turns out to be the daughter of Costello’s arch nemesis, the Stracci Gang. As their love becomes stronger, the feud between the gang becomes stronger. This is strongly influenced by the famous play Romeo and Juliet while references crime thriller films like Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas and Casino. This will interest the target audience because it covers several themes like love, betrayal and father and son relationships. The female audience would relate to the female lead, Amber, as she is a strong character at first but is weakened by her love with Jake. while Jake represents weakness at first but becomes stronger when he’s with her so a theme of dominance is also represented here. It will be in non-chronological order with some flashbacks, involving Jake’s childhood and his bond with his father before he died.

We are introduced with some characters like Provenzano, a police officer who was also a good friend of Costello. He’s been the father figure of Jake ever since his father died. Costello, Jake’s father, the dominant figure who is very calm yet affirmative. and Stracci, a very aggressive leader. All of these characters represents the theme of father figures, which is one of the biggest themes of the story.

This is an example of a short scene, the first scene where they’re in a warehouse where Jake is about to get killed by one of Stracci’s men.

THE FEUD

 

SCENE 1 – WAREHOUSE

 

MUSIC INTRO

ANNOUNCER: The Feud, The Warehouse, written by Alvin Maduli, with (NAME) as AMBER, (NAME) as JAKE, (NAME) as PROVENZANO. We join them at the beginning where Jake is about to get shot by one of Stracci’s men.

A GUN CLICK IS HEARD AND HEAVY BREATHING IS HEARD.

A HEARTBEAT IS PLAYED .

AMBER: I love you Jake…

A GUN SHOT IS HEARD.

(SILENCE)

Radio Drama Treatment – Exciderunt

Exciderunt is a thriller drama for the target audience of 18-40 years along with a mixed gender audience. The story revolves around the main character, Scott, who has short term memory loss due to a car accident, where his brother also died, and is accused and jailed for 7 years for the murder of a security guard that he didn’t commit, after a bank heist that he didn’t know went wrong. After being released from prison, he seeks revenge for the people who killed his brother, Dan, and damaged him. This story would interest the target audience because of its neo-noir style and its heavy focus on the unstable emotional states of characters as the story progresses, especially Scott. Although its structure will be in chronological order, it will have flashbacks that will relate to the film and twists will be revealed as the film progresses. It covers the themes of revenge, perception and memory.

This is an example of a short scene, which is the first scene where he is released from prison.

EXCIDERUNT

 

SCENE 1 – PRISON

 

GATES ARE OPENING AND FOOTSTEPS ON A DIRTY GROUND

IS HEARD.

 

SCOTT: Some people don’t deserve to be punished. But I did. I just didn’t know at first.

 

            GATES ARE CLOSING AND CONTINUES TO WALK.

MUSIC STARTS TO PLAY

 

SCOTT: I was accused of murdering a security guard after a bank heist went wrong. Hell, I didn’t even know this happened. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, I had a car accident 3 months before I was in prison which gave me anterograde amnesia which means I have short term memory loss. Sucks, huh? My brother died at the crash. Some say I was lucky I survived. Some say I deserved to die at the crash…

                                                                                                                                                                  (SILENCE)

Radio Drama Treatment – Storm Is Coming

Storm Is Coming is a drama for the target audience of 18-40 years along with a mixed gender audience. The story revolves around seven people who were brutally killed at a film premiere at Tennessee. It’s loosely based on the The Dark Knight Rises shooting at Colorado. It focuses on the seven people before the shooting one by one so flashbacks will be used during the broadcast. This could interest the target audience for its clever yet very dark twist. As the story progresses, we get a much darker path for the characters as each of them committed one of the seven deadly sins. Sarah, an actress, has the desire for fame and money. Michael, a director, has the excessive desire for food. Keane, an accountant, betrayed a fellow employee for money. Chino, is unemployed and has been for years. Sam, an architect , is a rageaholic. Brad, was an ex-convict for killing his friend and his perfect family. Taylor, a lawyer, always loses a case because of his pride. This leads to a brutal death for all of them.

I believe this would fit well with the target audience because it’s a different take for The Dark Knight Rises shooting as they would feel sympathy for the characters at first but as the story progresses, they would feel like they deserve it. This could create some controversies but this is an unusual way for a radio drama which I intended to do.

This is an example of a short scene, the first scene in the series. It starts off where the shooting begins.

FIRST SCRIPT – STORM IS COMING

 

SCENE 1

STORM IS COMING – CINEMA THEATER

DIALOGUE FROM THE FILM IS BEING PLAYED IN THE BACKGROUND WHILE POPCORN NOISES ARE HEARD. THEN A DOOR BEING OPENED AGGRESIVELY IS HEARD AND SMOKE BOMBS ARE THROWN. PEOPLE STARTS SCREAMING.

BRAD: GET DOWN! EVERYBODY GET DOWN! NOW! HE’S GOT A GUN!

MAN STARTS TO FIRE HIS WEAPON AND EVERYONE SCREAMS FOR HELP.

                                                                                                (SILENCE)

ANNOUNCER:  Act 1: Sarah.

RADIO DRAMA – MINDMAPS

 

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Torchwood: Asylum ANALYSIS

Asylum an original BBC Radio 4 audio play and a spin off to the Torchwood franchise. It was broadcasted in 1 July 2009 and it featured genres of action, adventure and science fiction as technical, symbolic codes and conventions used clearly indicates it. It’s set in Cardiff as the character’s accent sounds Welsh. The technical words they speak clearly indicates they’re professional detectives, although Jack Harness contrasts this as he is knife throwing at the hub, showing he’s careless and childish but also shows he’s an adventurous man. At the beginning, we hear car noises at the background which shows a real life situation of the detectives chasing the man. While motorbike noises (F26) is heard whichi shows an action/adventure element. It has an office setting as we hear telephone noises and computer noises. While an eerie score being played in the background indicates it’s a crime/thriller genre. When Gwen met Freda for the first time, it clearly shows Gwen as a detective as she kept asking questions. Freda was unresponsive for most of the conversation, and they use this by using interior monologue. This indicates Freda’s fear which could also indicates Freda as a non-human species. A lot of science fiction elements are being used during the radio broadcast. For example, strange noises clearly indicates a futuristic weapon being used. Jack clearly indicates a radar device could be dangerous weapon. When Jack was running through the computer, it says Freda has no immune system which indicates she is not human.

Asylum used a lot clever technical codes to indicate several genres like action, thriller, adventure and science fiction and this could be useful for my radio drama by using these technical codes.

Hitchhiker’s Guide To Galaxy (1978) ANALYSIS

Hitchhiker’s Guide To Galaxy was written by Douglas Adams and it was broadcasted in the United Kingdom from 8 March 1978 to 21 June 2005 and featured a science-fiction/comedy radio series. It did magnificently well that it produced novels in 1979 and produced a film in 2005. It mainly had sci-fi elements like intriguing sound effects and comedic humour that were mainly relevant to the audience in the 1970s. The posh accent started to phase out in the 1970s and they more regional, and proved it by the working class characters and the narrator parodying the Oxford English language and accent. While British culture are always referenced. For example, one of the characters, Arthur Dent, constantly insists the other characters to go to the pub and they always eat peanuts indicating them as working class people. It was clearly written in the 1970s even though it was set in futuristic times; one of the characters quoted “4 bags of peanuts for 28p”. Women were represented as “overly posh” as the woman stating that it’s the end of the world was well spoken.

It followed conventions of traditional radio broadcasts by starting off with a cheerful music and narrator briefly explaining the radio broadcast. However,  the narrator was referencing several intergalactic books and kept describing people as “human beings” which indicates him as a non-human species and creates a science-fiction element. While synthesizer music is quietly played during the narrator speaking which also creates a science-fiction element. People screaming in the background showing an alien invasion occuring, and this indicates panic. While explosions and laser beams can be heard which also shows an alien invasion, Strange noises that sonds futuristic indicates they’re in the spaceship and as the sounds get louder, indicating they’re walking while having a conversation and sort of indicate how big the spaceship.

Hitchhiker’s Guide To Galaxy clearly indicates it’s a science fiction radio broadcast not only because of its narrative, but the science fiction elements used as technical codes, while it clearly indicates a British culture as conventions by the way they talk etc.

War of the Worlds (1938) ANALYSIS

War of the Worlds (1938) was part of an anthology series that was on Aired on Mercury theatre and was performed on the October 30, 1938 over the CBS radio network. The radio drama created a massive impact as it simulated news bulletin and the audience believed it was real and most of them panicked. It will be explored herein the conventions, technical and symbolic codes that were used to create impact on the audience and made it one of the best radio dramas of all time.
It was first introduced with a cheerful music and the gentlemen introducing Orson Welles to create an indication that it’s just a radio drama, not a news broadcast. Orson Welles clearly stated at the start that’s it’s all fiction and for entertainment only. Then it started by broadcasting some dance music and quickly interrupted by a fast talking broadcaster stating some important information and this clearly indicates urgency and panic so the audience would be addressed and also start to panic. It was followed by an interview between the broadcaster, Mr Phillips, and a professor who discusses the situation and their formal manner and how they’re well spoken symbolises that they’re professional and have a clear understanding with the situation so the audience would find it realistic and believe it to be true. While the broadcasters constantly introduces the audience with “Ladies and Gentlemen” to keep them informed. It is different compared to radio broadcasts today as they introduce us less formally. Indications of panic are still shown as the time ticking behind the professor in the observatory clearly shows they’re running out of time.  The danger builds up even further as a realistic live interview with Welles; Mr Philips saying “Can you speak up to the microphone?” to Welles and interrupting the interview at the end, and it creates that rushed situation and panic. When the people started yelling and screaming and running as a “terrestial movement” occured, it gets interrupted with music again and technical difficulties begins to interrupt the “live coverage” and it’s realistic because it has the sense of losing control. As the military becomes “involved” and plane sounds are heard in the background while the reporter broadcasts a live coverage, the audience are drawn as they experience what’s happening in the city. As the final act progresses, a man calls for help and asks if “anyone’s out there” and shows desperation and isolation and as the dramatic music plays, it creates the sense of tragedy and loss. War of the Worlds didn’t meet the same conventions as other radio dramas back then as Wells wants them to think it’s real.

Radio Drama – Radio Sectors

There are 3 different sectors to radio:

Publicly Funded Radio
Radio broadcasters receive funding from license fees and public broadcasting are usually operated locally or nationally depending on the country and station. Its contents mainly involves news, sports, and traffic updates but also music. An example of a publicly funded radio station includes both local and international BBC radio stations, which was established in 1922. BBC Radio 1, covered in London, includes contemporary hit radio, news, entertainment, speech and showbiz. The target audience is mainly in the working class demographic and for the adults.

Commercial Radio

This is in contrast with public broadcasting as the radio stations are based on airing radio advertisements for profit but it is also operated locally or nationally. Although, they view fewer news and other updates than publicly funded radio stations, they focuses more on the contemporary music to aim at a certain target audience which are teenagers, mostly female and in the working class. This is more successful than any other type of broadcasting. An example of a commercial radio is 99.8 FM 2BZ, which is covered in several regional areas; Burnley, Pendle and Hyndburn. The content includes mostly pop music but also news, sport etc.

Community and Voluntary Radio

Started in 2002, these are radio stations that are run independently and for nonprofit. They mainly focuses on a certain target audience, serving communities a certain interest, which includes student radios, hospital radios and pirate radios. They usually tell their own stories and share experiences, or aware people democratically. An example of a community radio is 7 Waves Radio, which is covered in Leasowe, Wirral and Merseyside, and the content includes mostly news on that area covered and mostly on-air conversations.