Host Your Own Old Time Radio Drama
Drama for the dinner table
As a person who has a hearing loss (deaf in one ear) I always feel a little awkward sharing thoughts on sound. After all, there are whole bands of sound-frequencies that I can’t detect that are available to everyone else, so who am I to express an opinion? However, my inability to detect certain pitches, […]
Performing Audio Drama In our last lesson we looked at reading and understanding radio drama scripts. We learned about three act structure, character arcs, and the key plot and character points to be found in a script. We also learned to recognize and follow directions in a script and take part in a live script […]
Hi folks, I’m taking another look this week at the advice offered by Erik Barnouw in his Handbook of Radio Writing (1947). This time the attention is focused on music. While I’m married to a gifted musician, I haven’t a musical bone in my body and tend to reserve music for use as the “virtual […]
