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The title of my radio drama is "Bucket". The summary of it is just down below.

The story starts off with a student from school getting ready to play their first basketball game of the season at their new school. There was a lot of pressure on him because he knew he was one of the best players on the team and he knew that he had to play well, because it was his first game. 

His first game did not go well, not at all, he played horribly, and everyone expected him to play well because he was considered the best player on the team and he put so much pressure on himself to perform the best he could, but everything went wrong. He made a lot of turnovers he took horrible shots and let all his teammates and coaches down. The student went on to have 3 more horrible games each worse than the one before, everyone started hating him, saying he shouldn't be on the team and he was worthless, the only person who believed in him was his coach.

After each of the games that the student had played horribly, every time the next day at school he got bullied told how he was not good enough. He had people walking past him calling him bad at basketball, it was horrible for him because basketball was his personality. He did not enjoy it at all, but if he spoke to someone about it, they will tell him to man up and take it, but it was draining physically, getting pushed in corridor, and draining mentally being put down constantly by everyone in the school.

After a big loss, the player went home straight away because he couldn't handle anything anymore it was too much. He decided to go home and spend some time with his family. But something interrupted his time, his phone kept buzzing, it kept sounding like it was a ton of notifications on his phone, at first, he ignored it, but it kept on going. He opened his phone and found out that he had been added to a group chat, named after him, and it had all the people that bullied him, and they called him names on there, started even calling him as well. This was very very draining for the player.

After some time, the player fell into depression, and he was very very sad, he thought that maybe he shouldn't play basketball ever again, and he also started getting suicidal thoughts, but before he went further with anything, he called up his coach to tell him that he might stop playing basketball, and him and his coach had a really good conversation and the coach helped the player understand that blocking out the noise from all the other players and students, it is possible it is a skill to be learnt and his coach said he will be by his side all the time and if he ever wanted to talk about something he could.

The key characters within this radio drama, are the schoolboy who plays on the basketball team, who is Joseph, and the other main character is the Coach, who helps Joseph become his best possible self and deal with a lot of bullying.

The structure of the radio drama is a 3-act structure where this is a start, which is before school starts, then the rising action, which is, Joseph losing games and starting to get bullied. Then the climax is where he doesn't know what to do anymore and then his coach comes to help him out and put him back on track to become his best possible self, and all of this is the resolution.

BBC Radio 4 Programme Analysis "The Lovecraft Investigations"

 Programme Analysis "The Lovecraft Investigations"

This episode of "The Lovecraft Investigations" is about how Robert Blake who was in the previous season of this radio drama. He was attached to an ancient evil entity which was hidden. This episode is about people searching for this item that Blake was searching for. Because he had disappeared. The episode explores how if you know to much there can be consequences.

The target audience of this episode or entire series would be male and female between the ages of 30-50 years, who are predominantly white and live in the UK. I assume this because the characters are British and it is broadcasted on the BBC which is a British broadcasting service.

There are different narrative devices that are used throughout the radio drama. There is a lot of dialogue in this drama a lot narrative speech as well from the one of the main characters at the start of the show. Another narrative device would be the framing of the story, of how the story before about Blake and his journey which then frames and helps create a path for this journey.

"Reality is going to stop them" "Reality doesn't care" "Oh God not the catchphrase" This piece of dialogue shows how the team of people care about what is going on and who could get hurt looking for the ancient object, especially how Blake someone who went looking for the evil object 3 years ago disappeared.

At the very end of the episode (15:42-15:43) there is a sound effect of a punch being thrown at Matthew. The punch was thrown because he was recording the conversation and it could have been used as evidence against the women he was talking to because she had got rid of all his evidence to expose her. In the end the punch probably knocked out Matthew.

At time code 0:18 the narrator Matthew who was take note of everything said how Kennedy and him were going to the coffee shop across the road, which would give them space away from Byron and Eleanor. But it also gives a chance for other people to find them or listen in to their conversations because they are in public. In the back while they are talking you can hear chatter of people, because they are in a coffee shop, but they could also be doing this to not stand out too much and blend in a little.

All of these sounds help merge everything together from the ambient atmospheric sounds of the background to give more visual image to the audience about where the characters may be. Also the sound effects help out a lot, especially with the punch. It was very effective as it brought action into the podcast even though there are no visuals in it. 

There are some techniques that are used in this episode which I would take and put into my own drama such as the ambient and atmospheric sounds which give the audience a better understanding of the circumstances and the background. Another technique I would consider would be the sound effects as they would be really good to give something extra to the audience.

Task Allocation Week 7

 

Production Log Week 7

 

Intial Ideas developed ideas write up

Social media business, one person was really struggling in school he didn't enjoy any of the subjects except for IT. He really enjoyed it and he decided to start an Instagram account and start a business from scratch he failed a lot of times with his ideas but was determined to find an idea that would work for him. He then finally found an idea and was about to copyright patent it, but 2 minutes before he submitted someone had done it first, he was so confused how. Someone had hacked into his computer and was stealing everything.

-This idea was not the best as it was connected to social media, but I also wanted to connect it to cyberbullying within social media, as good as this idea was, it just wasn't the idea for me.

Basketball player has a bad garne leads to bullying and cyber bullying, which then spirals to bad performance in games which then leads to suicidal thoughts.

-this was one of my good ideas, as I could really build this story as I could also relate to this character and make the story very relatable to all students who play sports and have their ups and downs.

Influencers war, where two rival groups of influencers they have social media battles and their behaviour changes the more time they spend on social media, and one person gets out of hand and really hurts

someone from the rival group.

-This was also a good idea of mine as it also included the cyberbullying aspect within the radio drama, to obviously add dramatic effect.

Obesity, one person is fat and there is a school society where they help people who struggle with obesity to lose weight. The girl then joined the society and followed their Instagram account, they group posts exercise and motivation on the Instagram account. And for the next 3 months this girl lases a lot of weight

and was a lot healthier than before.

-I feel like this idea, I wouldn't be able protray it as well as I would like to, so the idea overall wouldn't work.

The secret admirer, a teenage romance comes onto social media between two students who talk to each other anonymously, they only talk online but it gets harder for them to connect their online life with their real life outside of social media, which then leads a serles of who are you and if they are a catfish or if anyone is lying or even if it's a criminal and they are giving away their details.

-This idea also works quite well, but didn't have the aspect that I wanted for it, such as the cyberbullying idea. But overall wasn't the worst idea out of the 5 that I wrote here.

Initial ideas for radio drama