Click on this link above and listen to a radio drama of choice for about 5 minutes. Then please answer the questions:
What radio drama did you choose?
What were some of the sound effects?
Was there a story? If so, please explain some of the details.
In the past, people use to listen to radio dramas for hours. Radio inspired their imagination. Does this still hold true today? Why or why not?
22 comments:
I chose to listen to The Price of Death: An Eye for an Eye.
Some of the sound affects were drum rolls, popping the wine cork, and pouring wine.
In the story, it was talking about a man who was falling in love with a woman. Also, he was proposing one of his inventions to a doctor.
I think that radio still does make people imagine. Sure they don't have radio shows that have stories, but there is still music and people can still imagine different things with music.
The radio drama I listened to was Les Miserables. Some sound effects they used were footsteps, thunder, rain, and knocking. There is a story and it is based off of the play. The main character is played by non other than Orson Welles. He adapted the story for radio broadcasting. The radio still inspired my imagination, but it is also a great story. The fact that i was listening to radio never really occurred to me, it was more that i was listening to a very famous play, by a very famous man. - Keith
I listened to The Batman Mystery Club. The sound effects were suspicious, and wolfs howling like it had a halloween theme to it. Batman and Robin were running a meeting were there were little kids as witnesses seeing ghosts and monsters they had encountered. Batman explained to the kids about scientific theories of ghosts existing.
Eddie
1.Price of fear, an eye for an eye
2.Orchestra playing,wine pouring.
3.An art auction, then a story about two men speaking to eachother as one of them falls in love with the woman named countessa.
4.Sort of because nowadays we have T.V's and we don't use radios as much, but if a person were to listen to the radio, they could still use their imagination and pretty much "see" what they're listening to even if there are no visuals.
I saw 1001 wives and I noticed that some of the sound effects were doors opening and closing and birds chirping. The story to this drama was about a father explaining to his son that he was going to get married after being divorced for nine years. Radio doesn't inspire the imagination anymore because now we have television and the internet to do that.
I listened to an Archie Andrews show.There were some sound affects like when Archie was going down stairs you can hear footsteps. The story was about Archie not leaving his father alone and bothering his father till he got money off of him to go to the movies with Jughead.
I think that radios do make people imagine because when I was listening to the Archie show i was imagining the characters and how they looks. Now a days people don't really use the radio as entertainment only like when your in the car or something like that. People enjoy the TV much more.
I chose the drama Wings to Victory, a series of stories based on reports read during WWII.
The sound of airplanes was used often as a sound effects, mainly because the particular story, Raid on Burma, revolved around the Fighting Tigers; American fighter pilots fighting the Japanese. I'm not sure what could have made the plane noises if it was in fact an effect, but if not, it was probably a prerecorded sound.
The story was about American Fighter Pilots who allied themselves with the Chinese, so as to fight the Japanese.
Radio is not really used for listening to stories anymore; it is now more a background noise as opposed to something like TV, which is watched for entertainment now. Though radio invokes imagination, it was more effort to listen and imagine than listen and watch. We've gotten much lazier over time unfortunately.
The program i choose was Gangbusters ; Costume Killer .
When ever someone was coming you could hear their footsteps before you even heard them talk , And A lot of the sound effects were just really loud .
It was a story about how this old guy named slim , He just got out of jail and him and his friend try to rob a bank and almost get caught . In the end slim ends up killing his sister / roommate because she didn't want anything to do with him .
I chose to listen to the drama called Tales of the Texas Rangers.
The sound effects included: cars, guns shots, cows (and other farm animals), footsteps
The story is based on a hitch hiker who finds a ride with a nice man. Shortly after, he tells the driver to stop and kills him to take his car. The rest of the story is of the texas rangers trying to figure out who did it and trying to catch the murderous hitch hiker. This drama seems to be like modern day crime investigation shows.
People don't listen to radios for hours anymore because TVs took away the aspect of imagination. With nothing to imagine anymore, the addiction of radios goes away and is replaced by TVs.
The radio drama that I chose was The Ghost Of Murders. The sound effects they played the most was scary music on the piano. The story is about a princess named Stella. She claims that she sees ghost's. This man got someone to work for princess Stella because everyone thinks she is a fake. Yes I think this still holds imagination today because if your listening to something your interested to you could picture the story in your mind. Just from me listening to this ghost story I can picture many different images in my mind going on threw out this story.
I chose to listen to "Hollywood Star Playhouse: The Tenth Planet"
some sound effects were sounds of pencils writing, door closing, "atomic bomb test", foot steps,etc.
In the story, a man(Walker) is questioned because they are trying to see what happened to his brother, and now he is visiting Major Collins to talk about the disappearance of his brother. He says he is going to stay in Little Rock to find out what will happen to Harry (the brother). Walker thinks that one day people from the tenth planet will come to Earth and take over. Walker gets a visitor who tells him that Harry is still alive - and the visitor is from the tenth planet.
Radio can still make people imagine because even if you are only listening to songs, you can still think and picture the artists singing along, or what the advertisements look like. The way the radio shows are described and said really make you feel like your reading a book sometimes.
The drama I chose was The Avenger: The Mystery of Death's Rock. The sound effects mainly consisted of the surrounding weather. Trivial noises such as doors knocking and people walking were very prevalent as well. The main focus was on the voices, accents, and music. The story is about people vanishing on, what the natives call, Death's Rock. It is interesting to hear what my grandparents were listening to when they were children. I noticed when listening to this radio program, that a different part of my brain was being stimulated. I felt as though I had almost forgot how to listen as these programs require one to do. I enjoyed this experience a lot. It brings back nostalgiac memories of my mother reading me long books, or my grandpa telling me stories of his childhood. For this reason I would say that if the radio still had exciting programs like The Avenger, it would still inspire the imagination today. However, as of now, the radio lacks imagination and engaging stories.
I chose to listen to Dark Venture: The Boarder. There is a lot of piano noises, high heel noises, rattling of a door knob.
Yes there was a story, it was about a man who got married and he wasn't too happy he was married. He recalled the night he met her. All the ifs, if he had been listening to Marge (his wife), if the old man wasn't home he wouldn't have gotten sour and left before Marge got home, if he hadn't gone to the bar. But he did. And he met Ruthy. When the old man living in the house told him he had 3500 dollars, and he wanted to put a double lock on the door but they said no. Then one night the husband rattled the old man's door and he brought up the next morning at the kitchen table and he said maybe Marge did it. he wanted to kill him. When he was going to kill him he turned around and Marge was in the hall, but she was sleepwalking.
I think the radio does provide somewhat about people using their imaginations. But mainly all you hear on the radio is music or talk shows. In the old fashion radio people broadcasted stories, such as Dark adventure.
I listened to the Black Museum. The story was told by Orson Welles. There was intense music and sound effect like bells, slow footsteps, the popping of a cork and pouring of Champagne. It was about a museum full of objects associated with or used for murder. It specifically talked about a kernel whose wife died of seemingly natural causes. I didn't get to listen far enough to find out what happened, but there are hints that she was poisoned. The object was a champagne glass.
Radio doesn't really hold our imagination anymore, since there are no more dramas. It's mostly music now.
I choose a random drama, is called 1001 wives.
There were some sound effects like people walking, doors swinging, birds chirping and some other sound effects. There were musics too, to make the drama interesting.
There was a story, it was about a father who was going to marry again after 9 years. He was trying to explain and make his son understand about the need of a women.. His wife, and his son's mother.
I think it wasn't very effective in inspiring our imagination. Well if there were no television or internet then I would probably try to get used to it, but I don't think that anyone would sit around the radio and listen to it for hours...
I chose the story Gangbusters: Jewel Robbery.
There were some sound effects such as drum rolls and percussion and bells but it had lots of static also.
The story was about a robbery and people trying to solve it. It was sort of hard for me to picture in my mind because I'm used to seeing shows on tv not hearing them. But I think people who used to listen to radio shows all the time probably could imagine it in their minds better then I could.
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