Radio Drama Production Diary: Log 2 - Thursday 29th October 2009 (Study Review Week)

Kieran Jones (me) and Simon Stanford meet up in a Coffee shop in Northampton Town to finish the script as college was closed, we spent a few hours writing the script and then finished for the day.

Radio Drama Production Diary: Log 3 - Thursday 5th November 2009

Today we Decided that our script was not long enough, Joe Hesketh and Abi Brennan added an extra scene onto the script whilst Kieran Jones and Simon Standford began Research On Film Noir style Radio Dramas. 

Radio Drama Production Diary: Log 4 - Thursday 12th November 2009

Today we all began to Record our piece in the Radio room-using soundtrack pro. We finished a scene and a half. 

Radio Drama Production Diary: Log 5 - Thursday 19th November 2009

Today we continued Recording our Piece from where we left off last week, We got to the end of the script and ran through it one more time to give use two tracks to work with when we start editing. 

Radio Drama Production Diary: Log 6 - Thursday 26th November 2009

Today we ran through our script in the radio room one more time so we had three tracks to work between. We then went into the Mac suite to begin editing our work with soundtrack pro, We spent today cutting out the parts we would DEFINATLY not be using.

Radio Drama Production Diary: Log 7 - Thursday 3rd December 2009

Today we started editing our recording further with soundtrack pro, we cut more work out that we would not need and started slicing parts that we wanted to separate. We also started to do rough sketches of what we wanted our poster to look like. 

Below are the two poster drafts I have designed (Fully Annotated), I will be working on both of them as final designs and choose which one of the two is my favorite design when they are digitalized.

                             POSTER DESIGN ONE                         POSTER DESIGN TWO

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Radio Drama Production Diary: Log 8 - Thursday 10th December 2009

Today we started adding effects to the first scene of our recording, we also continued drawing drafts for our page spread listing. 

Radio Drama Production Diary: Log 9 - Thursday 17th December 2009

Today more editing work has been done on our recording; we have also began to search for useable sound effects on the web to use on our recording, we downloaded them and saved them into our folder.  This was our last lesson until the Christmas period was over. 

Radio Drama Production Diary: Log 10 - Thursday 7th January 2010

Today we started adding sound effects onto the recording and began working through the whole recording; we have been editing the levels of the sound and cutting parts out in smaller detail. 

Radio Drama Production Diary: Log 11 - Thursday 14th January 2010

Today we searched for a few more sound effects, we added more sound effects and background noise onto the track, we have also adjusted a lot of the audio level to try and keep it level the whole way through. We have done further research into Film Noir recordings. 

Radio Drama Production Diary: Log 12 - Thursday 21th January 2010

Today Kieran Jones, Simon Stanford, Abi Brennan and Joe Hesketh hired a digital camera from the Technician Office in the Media Department of College and began to take photographs to use for our final posters, I took a selection of photo's to digitally transform into silhouettes on Adobe Photoshop.

Once we had finished taking our photographs we returned back to the digital suite, put the photo's onto our hard-drives and began to work on what we have designed, Below is my final edited photograph to use on my poster and the original photograph that was taken.

THE ORIGINAL PHOTO:

THE EDITED PHOTO:

Radio Drama Production Diary: Log 13 - Thursday 28th January 2010

Today our group discussed the digitally manipulated image that was created last week, We have all decided that the image will not be used on the poster as it is no longer attractive to our tastes. At this point we split off as individuals to create/design our own separate posters and bring them back together at the end of the session.

I used the other draft that I drew out a few weeks back, I used a photograph that I had taken in the past of a friend, cut the image from her knees and just below her waist. After the image was cut I imported it to photoshop and made the image grayscale and added a number of effects and filters to modify the image. I also collected some images on a Pistol, Alcohol bottle and a set of playing cards and used the same process to digitally manipulate the images to make them my own.

I then put the three images together on adobe photoshop and added text and other images to create my poster, Below is my final image:

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