Cues and Links within our Radio Drama Recording

A definition of cues and links:

Cues  Links - How you fill the bits between scenes, intro's and credits

When writing our script we had to think about how the scenes, intro and outro would all fit together nicely for example when we were creating our radio drama we decided to add a musical intro to the drama to explain the cut between our "Previously" scene and the current episode. Also at the end of scene one we used a fade and slight pause to explain to the audience that another scene is starting in a different location with a different selection of characters.

Here is an extract of our script to show how we used cue's:

"Scene One ends with fade"

"Cue few seconds of silence to show scene change"

"Fade in Scene 2# INT. LA BOOSH BAR - Night. Jazz music is playing quietly in the background, the sound of a busy bar with various sounds of drinks being poured, general conversation and the sound of Abbey's chair being pulled from it's table"

As you can see from the quote above, we have thought carefully about piecing our drama together to flow easily through to the end without breaks and confusion. This helps the listener understand that the scene, location and characters have changed.

Before our drama started we used a technique that explains briefly to the listener what happened in the episode before the one that is about to be played. We used cues to show the listeners the cut between the previous episode description and the current episode by adding a brief pause followed by some theme music. Here is a quote from our script to show you what it looked like:

"Previously on Transgression....."

"Cue a couple of seconds of brief pause."

"Begin theme music."

This helps to break our drama up slightly and to inform our listeners that our episode is starting.