Experiences, Insights and Reflection in making an Audio Drama
Audio Drama, commonly known as radio play, is a dramatized, purely audio performance that is usually broadcast on radio, tape or CD. With no visual component, this performance relies on dialogue, music and sound effects so as to help the listener visualize the story and characters.
Mr. Cedric Zavala our teacher in Sounds and Supervisions class in our Animation Course thought us on how to basically manipulate and construct our own audio drama using audio equipments.
When we are doing this activity it was hardly done because of not having a record room but thanks to our loving classmates and colleagues we are able to make our Audio Drama a requirement given for as our midterm exams, experiencing hardship in doing the activity still urges us to make it not as a requirement but to enjoy doing it at the same time.
We are using sounds in this activity, voice plus audio effects and sound effects are the main ingredient in an audio drama that is,
Direct sound issues from the source itself, such as those frequencies coming from an actors mouth.
When a person is close to us, we hear essentially direct sound including low-frequency chest tones.
As the person moves farther away, we hear more of the reflected sound.
Unfortunately "direct sound" is also synonym for the original production sound
Reflected sound is produced by the direct sound bouncing off the walls, floor etc. Reflected sound s much more complex in character than direct sound because the surfaces are at different distances from the source and have widely varying reflective properties.
Interiors that contains a lot of hard surfaces - glass, stone, metal, etc. - are said to be "live" because their high reflectivity. Soft or porous materials, like carpeting, draperies and upholstered furniture, are sound deadening. As furniture is moved into a empty room, the acoustics became "dead".
the audio drama experience is fun and interesting, this is also my first time to encounter this field in animation and this is one of the most important part in the animation production.