in which i go on and on and on about my modules
Yesterday, before collapsing on my bed, I wrote a whole long rant about my module choices for next year. In the morning though, I went to the library and checked out exactly what the contents of the courses would be so... I obviously had to amend my monologue
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Moving on to Drama, to me you seem to be pretty keen on Heard Not Seen: Writing for Radio, yes? Imho, it appears to be the coolest module (apart from the Shakespeare core one) too, though it might just be your impressive persuasion skills. But when you say ‘creating a sense of place and time using sound’, does it mean the additional sound effects like (in its most rudimentary form) knocking sound when somebody knocked on the door? Because I can see how to write dialogues in such a way that helps visualise the characters, settings, etc. in Radio Drama (as opposed to dialogues in Stage Drama) would be an interesting premise as well. I mean, it’d be helpful for fiction writing: to make the most of dialogues, avoid long boring descriptions, etc. You know, all that ‘showing rather than telling’ stuffs ( ... )
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I'll let you guess which book is on the booklist for Children's Lit... *flails*
I've spoken to a couple of people today about Drama (because I had a Drama class, obvs). Apparently, nobody wants to do Writing for Radio, but the tutor said that radio dramas is how many playwrights begin these days; you end up in BBC Radio 4 and from there escalate to the BBC.
I already know that I'll want to adapt HP for a Radio Drama, I just know.
does it mean the additional sound effects like (in its most rudimentary form) knocking sound when somebody knocked on the door?
^^ I think the key word in here is writing for radio. I've seen scripts for radio dramas before and they look like this ( ... )
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