Elective #9 – Sound for Jody Welin
Introduction: Before television was
invented, families used to listen to the radio for entertainment. On the radio,
you could listen to music, sports, news, and drama. The drama that you would
listen to would be theatrical productions of stories. Sometimes there would be
as many actors as necessary for the play/story but there were other times when
an actor would play numerous parts and they would even play the parts of the
opposite sex.
Assignment: Click on the two links
below and listen to the radio stories. Be aware of the actors changing the tone
of their voices to express different emotions. When listening to a
story, the voice is the only part of the actor that “acts”. Since we cannot see the
actors, we rely on their voices to give us the full experience of the story.
Click on the red dot that says, “Listen
to the recording” (wav
Format, 11,168 Kilobytes)
Click on the red dot that says, “Listen to the recording” (wav Format, 9,120 Kilobytes)
Activity: Now that you have listened to 2 radio show stories, we are going to set up our own Reader’s Theatre. Take out your script and highlight your lines. Read through the entire script (reading everyone’s part to yourself) so you are aware of the plot. Figure out how your voice needs to change during the story to “show” your character’s emotions. Make notes on your script to help you remember where the voice changes happen. Study your lines numerous times so that they become familiar to you.
Tomorrow, you will get together with the other “actors” in your play and start rehearsing.