UNIT 42: RADIO DRAMAElliot Jones

Raising the barMy Radio Drama location is in a quiet bar in London, which generally just has the locals and a couple of passers-by. A regular there notices something shifty about a man who enters, he watches him, before asking if he is from around here. The unknown man keeps his head down, drinking his beer. The regular asks again while walking over to him. ‘I said, are you from around here!?’, He takes a sip of his drink and then slams it down, and jumps right in the locals face. ‘Can a man not have a drink in peace around here!?’ The local pushes him back down to his seat, where the 3rd man goes over to try break up the fight. This angers both the men and so the unknown man jumps up and punches the 3rd man straight to the ground. The local reacts instantly punching the unknown man, and helping the 3rd man up, as they’re friends. This leads to a fight between the unknown man and the two locals, where it ends in kicking the unknown man out of the pub.

BUDGET The budget I have been given for my radio drama is £20,000

(per hour). As my radio drama is only going to be about 5 minutes, I have a budget of £1666.

A Voice Actor: £5.16 for 5 minutes. (£62 an hour) = £25.80 (I would need 4 men and one women)

Script Writer: £570

A Foley Artist for 5 minutes: £2.58 (£30 an hour)

Studio: A studio for 5 minutes would cost £4.58 (£55 an hour)Hiring this studio also includes a engineer musician and producer.

Equipment and Props: £470 £1072. 96

TARGET AUDIENCE

The target audience for my radio drama would be older men such as 40+ who enjoy listening to Radio 4. Radio 4 has a much older audience because of the nature of the shows, dramas and debates. I think this is where my radio drama would fit in best.

I don’t see a social economic group that fits in best with my drama, I think I would get some people from all groups listening to my drama and it not being specifically for anyone. If I had to choose, I would go with group B (Intermediate managerial, administrative, professional) because I believe these are the people that will travel a lot and get the chance to be listening to such things.

Unknown Man

Age:

49

Conflicts (Inner/outer): Outer conflicts include the fight he gets himself into. Though it never states any inner conflicts, but they come from his family background

Name: Unknown as it is never stated.

Ethnicity: White British

What motivates them? It is very difficult to find anything that would be able to motivate him because of his pastConnection to

other characters: He has no connection to any character

Working Status: Unemployed

Family Background: His family history isn’t great, this is the reason behind his inner conflicts

Local one: Gary

Age: 62

Conflicts (Inner/outer): Very calm family man who’s only conflict is when people are rude or dismissive.

Name: Gary

Ethnicity: White British

What motivates them? His motivation is from being so friendly he doesn’t like rude people in ‘his pub’

Connection to other characters: Friend of James Working

Status: Retired

Family Background: Has a wife and two kids, regular family, never any problems.

Local two: James

Age: 52

Conflicts (Inner/outer): Happy guy and would always help out a friend

Name: James Peterson

Ethnicity: White British

What motivates them? He enjoys his job, and his happily married with his wife Jessica

Connection to other characters: Friends of Gary Working

Status: Works for Microsoft

Family Background: Wife Jessica, with two children, never any problems