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Unit 5 Lo1 Task 1

The document provides details about two radio dramas - Dark Passenger and The Troll of Stoney Brook. It asks the listener to note sounds heard and how they convey location and events. A table compares the dramas' use of sound, narrative, music, silence, and characters. Dark Passenger involves two friends on a mysterious road trip that takes a tense twist. The Troll of Stoney Brook follows an awkward teen who hits something strange during a drive home after a party.

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Unit 5 Lo1 Task 1

The document provides details about two radio dramas - Dark Passenger and The Troll of Stoney Brook. It asks the listener to note sounds heard and how they convey location and events. A table compares the dramas' use of sound, narrative, music, silence, and characters. Dark Passenger involves two friends on a mysterious road trip that takes a tense twist. The Troll of Stoney Brook follows an awkward teen who hits something strange during a drive home after a party.

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Listening Task

You are required to listen to the first 5 minutes of each of the following (You can listen to more if you
want)
 Dark Passenger (horror)
 The Troll of Stoney brook

Note down what sounds you hear and how you know where they are and what is happening. The point
of Radio drama is to set the scene through SOUND rather than visual

Drama
Use of sound Use of Use of Music Use of Characters or
Narrative silence narrator
Back ground How are they How does it How many? Male
sounds for location talking create an / female?
settings emotional
response?
Dark There driving They talk The music There isn’t There are 2
Passenger at the very used when the much silence characters
beginning and mysterious natator is used I the used in the
there’s calming like there’s narrating is a radio drama. radio drama,
music like something bit wild west The only there friends
there on a road about to take but it’s also time that on a road trip
trip. U can hear place. They mysterious there is going on an
the wheels spin have an and tells the silence is to adventure.
at one point. U American story very well tell the There both
can also hear accent and. listener that males and
things like Are very its changing sound fairly
footsteps, the animated in from young around
traffic and also their voices to narration to 20 – 30 years
the rain tell the story the action old
better and and the main
keep the bit of
audience
engaged
What is The first five
drama about? minutes are off
Two friends
who are fairly
young go on a
drive to a
haunted house
in America.
The think
that’s its going
to be fun but it
starts to get
tense and you
can sense a
twist is going
to occur
The Troll of The sounds The narration There is a lot The only There are a
Stoney Brook you can mainly is very of music used silence that is few
hear is the, animated in in this radio used is to characters in
party music in his speech. drama, there is switch from the radio
the He sets the music used in the narration drama that are
background, u scene and the narration, to the used to make
can also hear starts to talk the music in dialogue in dialogue for
the car and the about the the the main the main
music being story a bit. background at radio drama. character, one
played in the the party and of the
car. The car also there is characters is
also spins out music for the girl at the
which is a when he’s in party, another
really good the car. is the boys
sound effect not being nice
used to the main
character.

What is In the first 5


drama about? minuets, It’s
about an
awkward
teenager who is
at a party and
then he leaves
to go back
home, when
driving home
he ends up
hitting a
something and
having a bad
accident he hits
something
mysterious and
weird

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