Allocation Pre-production planning

Pre- production planning that I did: Half of Treatment, Scheduling and alignment, Risk Assessment, Audio Assests, Budget, Considerations, Legal and Ethical, Voice release form, Analysis on feedback, Evidence of pictures, Swot Analysis.

Pre-production planning that Simona did: Other half of Treatment, Rushes log, Audience Feedback, Conducting Recce's, Funding, Launch Date, Production Schedule, Key Personnel list, Task allocation 1-5, Production log 1-5, Running Order, Regulatory Bodies.

My side and how I liaised with my partner

My part of the radio drama is where Avery is bored at home so she decides to watch a youtube video and stumbles upon a video about the Dark Web. After watching the video she is intrigued and wants to find out how to get into the dark web, so she searches a video online again and follows a tutorial to get onto the surface of the dark web. 

Khairun helped me with recoding some of the dialogues as she was the narrator of the radio drama. This part was tedious as we had to record and review as Khairun sounded mono toned while narrating at times. The recordings were done in GarageBand. She had written the dialogue for Dark Secrets for me to play the character Avery as well. 

While she was recording her voiceovers I was looking for diegetic and non diegetic sounds to put in our radio drama. She then went onto to finding music for the radio drama to use throughout the film making sure that it is copyright free. 

We helped each other on editing 'Dark Secrets' She added music and while I added foley sounds. We both spent a long amount of time editing this to make sure that it meets the brief and a radio dramas conventions. Khairun and I then re watched the radio drama as if we do not know what is going on to see if it is clear to the audience what the radio drama is about. We tried our best to make the radio drama as interesting as possible from the storyline to the editing. However, while recording our dialogues we had lots of unexpected issues with the file of our recordings, the file would either not save or be corrupt. This meant that we had to help each other re-record our dialogues again. I then helped her with fixing the volume issues as it was uneven at times but it proved to be unsuccessful. 

Khairun also assisted me in pre production work.  

U16 radio dark secrets clip

First part of dark secrets final radio drama

audience Feedback

The feedback we will act on 

Afsarah, Areeba, and Zayna told us a few things we should work on. They told us to make the scene more consistent in sound as they found it infuriating that the volume kept changing. We acted upon this by deleting the first clip we repeat in the first draft. We are also going to delete and replace some clips where it's really quiet. 

Afsarah also told us that I should be more enthusiastic and give more emotion in my voice acting, so we will redo those parts. E.g. when Avery fears Jaden chasing her, I am supposed to be threatened and scared. 

We will also try to make it seem less scripted to make it more realistic. And we will try to make the plot clearer to understand the audience. As even though the scenes are in order it is a little confusing. And then in the final edit, we will take out all the bloopers and replace the dialogues that we need to in order to finish Dark Secrets. 

The feedback we will not act on 

Afsarah told us to re-record our lines in a soundproof room, but not only do we not have the time for that but also, we do not have a soundproof room in school. 

Afsarah also told us to change Avery's character to seem more interesting by giving her more background story. However, we cannot act on this feedback as we must make our radio drama no more or less than 5 minutes and 30 seconds. 

Afsarah said again that the radio drama sounds fuzzy. But I kept the edit that way to make it seem like she is really at home. To make it more realistic. 

Zayna told us that we should make the advert a little shorter as it was getting boring without any music. We will be adding music, but we will not be able to shorten the radio drama as again our radio drama can be no more or less than 5 minutes and 30 seconds. 

Evaluation