When looking at the radio drama I have created, I am very happy with my final outcome. I think that the overall flow of my show sounds good. The episode follows a narrative which is engaging and appeals to my target audience. From looking at the brief that I was given, I believe that I have met the requirements that were set. My radio caters to a local Sheffield audience due to some of the dialect that was used within the drama. I believe that all groups within Sheffield's community could listen to the show and feel represented.
When creating my show, I chose to target it at 16 to 19 year olds, I did this as I believed that teens need to engage more with radio and believe that with today's technology, allowing you to download most radio shows it would encourage young people to listen to each episode of my radio drama. I also know the things that this target audience like due to me being within it myself and therefore feel like I have done very well in catering towards them. I know that my target audience were engaged with my radio show as during the production stages of the programme, I got a focus group of people which were within my target audience and let them listen to the offline edit. They liked the narrative and said that the show was something which they would listen to. I believe that the cliff hanger ending will make the audience want to continue listening to other episodes as this makes them want to find out what happens next whilst also leaving them to make their own decision on what is going to happen next. A benefit of the target audience that I chose is the idea that they are digital natives meaning that they have grown up with the internet and therefore use platforms such as social media in order to share their views. If my radio drama was to become larger, I believe that my target audience would start taking to social media in order to share their opinions about the show and what they believe will happen next. This is something which is seen with a lot of popular television shows for this target audience. The use of the music which I have used within my radio drama, such as "Don't call me up" by Mabel playing in the car also is something which appeals to my target audience as this type of chart music is something which they would listen to. Another way that there is appeal is through the characters which I have created for the show. I believe that the people from my target audience can relate to them, especially the two main characters as there is representation for both genders and the characters are within the target audience themselves. Having characters which the target audience engages with makes my radio drama very strong.
One of the key strengths of my radio drama is the narrative that I created. I believe that with a weak narrative to the show, people would not be engaged and would not want to listen. I think that the character which I created and the voice actors who I cast to record these parts were a key success to the outcome of my radio show. I did have to make changes to the script slighting as the person who was playing "Diane" was unable to attend the recording. I stuck to my contingency plan within was within my production schedules and although the person who took over this part was male, I prefer the way that this sounds as it means that the difference between the two sets of parents is made very obvious.
Another strength of my radio drama is just how profesional it sounds. I believe that the end result resembles the radio drama "The Archers" which is on BBC Radio 4. This is the programme that I did my research off of and I am please that it sounds similar to my own radio show. The final edit of my radio show has very good audio quality due to me recording the voice actors within a profesional recording studio. This means that the quality of the audio is clear and loud, which will keep listeners engaged as they are able to hear just how good the quality of the show is. The way that I used wild sound to set each scene and sound effects throughout made the radio show seem profesional overall.
My only weakness was the editing of my radio show. Although I managed to piece together all of the different clips and add sound effect, wild sound and theme music, I think that there was more that I could have done with the editing. I was new to using Adobe Audition and if I was to create a new episode of the show I would concentrate on using some more advanced techniques within my editing to create an even more profesional episode of a radio drama.
Overall I believe that "The School Pick-up" is a very professional sounding, engaging and interesting Radio drama with a narrative which fits my target audience and also the brief that I was given by my client appealing to a Sheffield based audience.
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