Recording production: Part 2

WHO IS DOING WHAT???

Now we are all ready to start recording we needed to decide which roles each member in the group is to take on. We all decided that Jo should be Lauren because she is soft spoken and plays the role naturally.

During the reading of the script in front of the class we asked one of our class members Jo (boy) to act our Chris' character and he did a very good job of it, so we asked him to play the role for our recording as well.

We were now left with three more characters; Vivienne, Jeffrey and our less important characters like the radio reporter, model and the Vogue Editor, which are roles anyone can do including our already existing actors.

Character Vivienne was who i was most concerned about. We made her a very strong character with an accent and i didn't want her character to be altered in any way. So I asked my cousin to play the role of Vivienne. My cousin's first language is french so her accent is very strong and accurate. She loves drama and does write plays as well as act in her spare time having someone like her to the team has a lot of advantages not only because she's french but she can also give us her opinion on the drama and Vivienne's character that can make our radio drama better.

Personally i didn't want to take on a role in the radio drama mainly because i really enjoyed being behind the desk in the recording room and learning how everything worked. I think the best way to truly monitor how effective the radio drama is, is by being behind the desk and watching it take form that way i can see the drama from the target audiences point of view.

Having two people behind the desk is even more effective because you then have a second opinion and then as a group review work done and see which areas need improving.


After some complication and clashes in lesson timetables my cousin was proven not to be a good candidate for Vivienne so we asked our form teacher Stephen to take her place.