Mass Com

Radio Plays

Multiple Choice

Story presented through _______ alone.

• Characters

• Sound

• Music

• Plot

Radio Plays

• Story through sound alone.

• Like stage drama has a beginning, middle and end

• Voices of the characters must be sufficiently distinguishable

• Not more than three or four characters 

• Usually 30- 60 mins

Open Ended

What happens if there are more than four characters in a radio play?

Radio Talks

Multiple Choice

Radio Talk Shows are ________.

• Formal

• Informal

Radio Talks

• Not speeches 

  - rather they are chats

   - informal manner

• Words are simple and familiar

• No definite structure

Poll

Have you participated in any radio programmes?

• Yes

• No

Radio Quiz

»Largely studio based

»Inexpensive to produce

»One of the popular programmes

»Family participation

Poll

Do you think its effective to have movie trailers aired on radio?

• To a great extent

• May be

• Not at all

Movie trailers

»15-30 minutes duration
»Fast paced
»Extract of dialogues and songs from the movie
»Names of the stars. Producer and directors mentioned

Music programmes:

• Very popular

• Have unity and form

• Comes with interesting comments and narration

• DJ programmes, classical or light music etc.

Open Ended

Can you name 5 radio genres?