Rough Design

This is my rough design for the poster. I decided I wanted the key focus of the poster to be a nuclear explosion, and for the text to be included into the explosion. I also knew at this stage that I wanted the poster to be a black and white theme, using conventions from the poster research I had conducted previously.

Analysis of 3 posters

After finishing the radio drama, we had to make a poster advertising our drama 'Under the Mushroom Cloud'. I found some adverts for various radio dramas and analysed them to give me an idea of what must be included within an advert.

This is an advert for 'Star Wars - the original radio drama'. The background is very plain and black but reflects the nature of the drama, for example it is set in space. The title text is very bold, extravegant and eye-catching. This was probably done on purpose so that the audience could be captured immediately. The image of the space ship also reflects the context of the radio drama. This can let the audience know the genre straight away. The audience will already know it is a sci-fi radio drama before tuning in.

This is an advert for the popular radio drama 'The Archers'. The background is very plain and is just a landscape, this might reflect to the nature of the plot, but at a quick glance it looks totally unrelated until you read the text. The text suggests it is at a farm which justifies the background. The image is of two main characters and this indicates that the drama is set around them. The title text is also very large which is immediately eye-catching. However, Overall I don't think this advert is successful as it just looks 'thrown-together'.

This is an advert for the hit radio drama 'War of the Worlds'. The genre is horror/sci-fi and I think this advert reflects that and would make the audience very aware of what the drama was about. The image shows alien life, technology and destruction. The title is also very eye-catching and the background is very dark, implying that the plot and content itself is also very dark.

Screenshots

From the editing process on Soundtrack Pro, I took some screenshots to see how my progress developed over a few weeks.

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Listening Party

During the production process we got an amazing oppurtunity for some feedback. We held a listening party with a large group of students and they were asked to give an honest evaluation of our radio drama. The general feedback from the students that we recieved was that they thoroughly enjoyed our work. We asked them to rate it out of 10 with 1 being the worst and 10 being the best, the majority gave us a 7/8 out of 10. The response we got as a group was that they loved our ideas and really connected with the piece, and felt that it was realistic. However, we also gained some constructive criticism from the listening party. The main negative response we got was that perhaps the acting could have been that of a more higher standard! We also had comments over Nick's scottish accent, and some individuals found it slightly comedic. This was not our aim at all, as this didn't compliment our genre one bit. However, we felt we justified this critique, We used this accent to show the diversity within the different characters. We felt his strong accent also came him some dominance which is what we were aiming for in the start of the narrative. Overall, we recieved mainly positive feedback and the majority liked our radio drama and would listen to more of it.

Edited Sound Clips

This is a sound clip that has been altered in Soundtrack Pro, the voice levels have been changed, parts have been cut and suitable SFX have been added.

Un-edited sound clips

This is a sound clip that is un-edited and before any sound effects were added.