2. • Task 1: Research
• Research existing radio drama. You should concentrate on areas such as acting,
narration and sound effects.
• Mind's Eye
• Written by: Gemma McMullen, Gerry Casey and John Murphy
• Starring: Dermot Crowley, Cathy Belton and Mark Lambert
• Directed by Owen O'Callahan
• Mind's Eye is a series of BBC radio dramas set in Dublin, concerning the effect
of apparent paranormal phenomena on two psychotherapists, Lorcan Molloy and
his daughter Aoife. Lorcan is mourning the recent death of his wife Jennifer, and
also wishing for grandchildren from Aoife, who prefers her life as a single
professional.
• The series ran from 2008 to 2015 with 5 episodes at around 30 minutes each.
• Mind's Eye Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%27s_Eye_(radio_series)
3. Proposal
Possible Titles: Electric Spirits, Voltage Consumption,
My project concept is that a group of spirits are taking over the bodies of
different animals, causing them to perform tasks that even humans couldn't perform.
These includes performing incredible feats of strength and skill beyond the limits of
a human. A team of Paranormal Investigators join together to try and figure out
what is going on. As the story goes on, more spirits slowly started to appear, taking
over more animals and starting to evolve and become more powerful, slowly staring
to take over humans as well as animals. However as the team try to figure out what
is happening, new evidence appears about what happens after the spirit leaves
the body, once the spirit leaves, the body's conducts dangerously high amounts
of electricity.
The story will be explained by a narrator with specific parts having actors tell some of
the story.
Audience: Teens and above due to description of violence and some possible
bad language.
4. Possible Problems Possible Solution
Creating the sound of a lightning storm Use the internet to create the sound
Creating the sound and finding a
good rain storm to record
Wait until a good rain storm appears
or use the internet to create the sound
Running out of ideas for the
characters and story
Talk to friends about possible ideas
for the story
Making any spelling or
grammatic mistakes
Read through to check before finishing
Unable to record voices for story Book out voice recorder and
work during breaks.
A lot of unnecessary background noise Find an area that would be required
5. Planning
Resources List
• Voice Recorder
• Computer-Microsoft Slides, Adobe Premier Pro
Sound Effects-No effects due to lack of time and resources
I listened to a audio story called Mind's Eye which gave me the inspiration for my story. I took the
idea of spirits taking over people, causing them to perform task that they couldn't perform
before. This gave me a similar original idea to have spirits taking over the bodies of animals,
slowly getting stronger and starting to take over humanity. I had to edit this idea due to changes
in deadline and lack of time. The more simpler idea is that a spirit has taken over a dog and made
it commit suicide, then it takes over the narrator, causing them to vomit out black sludge.
My final piece works well because it still tells the story I wanted to tell well as it gets the idea
across. However, it doesn't work well due to having to remove so much of my original idea, if I
had more time to prepare, more of my original idea would be added to the story.
Reflection/Evaluation
6. The quality of the audio was not as
good as I had hoped due to how used
the audio recorder. If I could do this
project again, I would use the recorder
differently and speak the lines without
my stuttering so my voice could be
heard more clearly.
Audio Quality
Sound Effects
I didn't add any sound effects
into the audio due to having
little to know time to add and
edit any sound effect. I would
add sound effects if I had more
time to add them.
Resources
I only used an audio recorder to record my
voice which I used in a studio to record in
almost silence. I used Adobe Premier Pro to
add the recording. I don't think I could have
added any more resources that would help
me with the project.
Planning
I didn't plan as much as I wished to
due to lack of time and deadlines
changing multiple times. If I had
more time, I would use it to plan my
time and resources more
accordingly.
