Writing Audio Drama offers a comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing sound drama for broadcasting and online. This book uses original research on the history of writing radio plays in the UK and USA to explore how this has informed and developed the art form for more than 100 years.
Includes examples of model scripts, information on the markets for drama, and key case studies through history, thus providing students with all the information they need to start writing audio drama.
Accompanied by a comprehensive web-site containing audio illustration of the issues, techniques and models of writing.
Tim Crook is an author, playwright, journalist, and academic who pioneered British independent production in audio drama in the 1980s and 1990s with UK co-productions with NPR in the USA, and new writing festivals and competitions.
Chapter 1 Radio Drama is Born and In Its Cradle
Chapter 2 The Psychology of Writing and Listening
Chapter 3 Instrumental utilitarianism in radio playwriting- the evolving thoughts of Val Gielgud
Chapter 4 Achieving the Long Form Audio Drama
Chapter 5 Beginning the Sound Story
Chapter 6 Characterising the Sound Story
Chapter 7 Dialogue and the Sound Story
Chapter 8 Sustaining the Sound Story
Chapter 9 Plotting the Sound Story
Chapter 10 Ending the Sound Story
Chapter 11 Film, Internet and Stage dimensions to Sound Story Telling