IDEAS FOR AUDIO SCRIPT
- DEATHNOTE
- RICK AND MORTY
- STEPHEN KING- THE SHINING
- B-MOVIE
- TROLLS 2
- 30’s GANSTER FILM
- INTERDIMENSIONAL RADIO
- WORLD WAR Z
- RED VS BLUE
- HOT FUZZ
- BATMAN
- THE LAST OF US
- RED DEAD REDEMPTION
- HEAVY RAIN
- HALO
- THE WITCHER
- DESTINY 2
WORLD WAR Z
World War Z is essentially a documentary of the fictional war against zombies. The book interviews various people from around the world, sharing their experiences of the beginning, middle and end of the war.
INTERDIMENSIONAL CABLE
Interdimensional Cable is an iconic feature from the Rick and Morty, it focuses on Rick and Morty flicking through interdimensional television channels, due to the sheer scope and possibility, shows can be as mundane as a guy ‘eating shit’, to an action-packed film.
This could be adapted to something called ‘Interdimensional Radio’ and can include either very short adverts adhering to the Rick and Morty Lore.
HOT FUZZ- LESLEY TILLER WAS ****ING MURDERED
This scene is around 5 minutes long, in the scene Seargent Angel suspects that the 4th death by accident is a murder as he saw it with his own eyes. However, none of the PCs believes him and as a result, there is a 4-minute exchange with a large amount of swearing and lots of money being put into a swear box. There are a lot of possibilities for foley with this idea aswell as a large script with a lot of actors and voice work. We would need about 8 actors for this project and the runtime will be roughly 5 minutes. Some of the main issues with this idea is the sheer amount of work this may take, with getting 8 actors in aswell as doing foley for all of it, it could be quite a challenge. This could also be a lot of fun because of the amount of comedy and hilarious moments that are in this piece, along with the exaggerated Somerset accents.
https://youtu.be/Cun-LZvOTdw
Rick AND MORTY SEASON 3 EPISODE 1
In this episode, a lot of the episode is set in Rick’s mind, in a restaurant called Shoney’s. There is a considerable amount of dialogue between the Alien trying to get information out of Rick and Rick himself. With background sound of static and distant memories.
Final Idea
We decided to go for the Hot Fuzz idea because we felt like it could be quite entertaining and easy to adapt into a 5-minute short radio show. There is also a multitude of possibilities in regards to Foley and general sound. I think it could also be very interesting trying to replicate the famous Edgar Wright montage shots with sound.
Adaptation Ideas
One idea I had in adapting the script into a radio show is essentially turning it into a 50s style episodic show, lasting 5 minutes they are short tales that tell the life of Sergeant Nicholas Angel of the Sanford Constabulary, where he constantly tackles very suspicious accidents.
More responses from the background characters as they respond to the situation, some characters in the scene have a few lines and the audience wouldn’t know if they were there until the dialogue, so maybe having them respond would show the audience of their presence.
The Introduction of the show could start off with ‘Welcome to another episode of Tales From Sanford’, or ‘Nicholas Angel Adventures’.
The script will generally remain the same apart from a few changes, in the film, some lines are slightly different due to the actor changing it on the run or feeling another line would fit their character better. As for our radio show, I may change one or two things so that it is more in line with the character or something a little bit more entertaining.
The final adaptation has been altered very slightly to adhere to a sort of 5-minute audio drama. After having a read through of the entire script it totals to about 5 minutes 30 seconds, not including the foley that will be in-between.
There are a lot of possibilities for foley in this script, as we can add foley for the monologue.
The script is very dialogue heavy, with a large monologue near the end of the script, we would have to pad it out and make it more interesting by adding some foley to it.
I found this version of the script online, and although in the film, some actors say something different compared to what is said in this script, it is easy to assume that this is due to the actor thinking it would be better if their character said this instead of what is in the script. Some of the changes I made to the script are to match it with the dialogue in the film, and my own personal touch to a few lines.
For example,
This line…
Was originally this…
The reason I changed it was not due to make it match with the film, the reason I changed it was because I personally felt that ‘fannying about’ sounds better than ‘bandying about’. This is because, we are all aware of how edgy Hot Fuzz is, with a considerable amount of violence and swearing, I felt that ‘bandying about’ was quite tame to what it could be. Fannying about has a bit of an edge to it but not too much, along with the general fact that it also sounds a lot funnier.
Possibilities for Foley
- The sound of money landing in the swear box
- Footsteps as various characters walk around the room.
- Lots of dialogue.
- Shutting blinds
- Cartwright and Wainright lighting cigarettes
- Beans and bacon being fried/slopped into a pan
- Swishing noises when there is some sort of transition
These are some possibilities for Foley for the project, this is so that we know if we did this project, it would have a good amount of foley possibilities
Recording Sessions
Our first recording session went well, considering the fact that our script is very dialogue heavy, it will take a few sessions to get it all done. Although we have decided to re-record some work as it is not really up to standard, this is a small delay but will not take too long to rectify.
Our recording sessions have generally quite successful. We were able to record all of the script and foley within a few recording sessions.
We had around four recording sessions over the course of a month, the first was just a practice, so that we could get a feel for the script and see who fits what roles. At the moment we think Dave would fit playing Angel because of his strong northern accent, which alienates him from the rest of the officers who would mainly have southwestern accents. After listening back to our first session we found that some of us are terrible voice actors and decided to replace a few of us with some people who are decent at voice acting. We replaced the characters of Wainright and Cartright with female voice actors, this helped diversify the cast and add some more interesting arks. The girls also had quite strong welsh accents which again diversified the accents in the show, it also meant that they had very distinctive voices.
Other recording sessions we did were largely for foley, as we had a considerable amount of foley in our piece as we wanted to make the police station scene feel very believable, we also had to get foley for the monologue, this will keep that section entertaining due to the slightly drony aspect of that section.
Here are some pictures of us working in the studio, as you can see we did a mix of recording dialogue using the inbuilt mics in the studio and we also used the room to record some foley in it, this was mainly due to the fact that the room was soundproofed which meant that the room was perfect for recording foley, due to the fact that there would be no echo or anything messing the audio up.
The editing process for this project was fairly simple, while I didn’t edit the piece myself, I kept an eye on it so I could provide my opinion on ideas and see if there’s anything I think could be changed. The hardest part about getting the edit right was getting it down to five ish minutes so that it is at the time limit, but also sorting a layout for the edit, this is due to the sheer amount of audio bites we had, sifting through all the bites was very time consuming, we would have been much better off thoroughly sorting the bites as soon as we started recording.
Four Men & A Ham 