This week we had Penny Reading come in to talk to us about actors and Radio Drama. One thing that stuck with me was that we needed to remember that we were in charge, just because we are students it doesn’t mean that we can’t turn down an application. At the end of the day it is our production so we can choose who acts in it. She gave us some helpful tips when working with actors such as adding in how things are spoken, for example sadly, or anxiously as otherwise actors will just read it out. We also had Peggy teach us some acting tips of our own in the workshop.

Personally I don’t think that the workshop was very helpful to what we were doing as we ourselves aren’t acting in our dramas, and the workshop was based around acting techniques. However it did allow us to understand the actors point of view and what we need to put in our scripts so that we know what we want. In addition, she mentioned that we need to know what we want from the actor and make sure that the actor is sure what we want from them because the more time you spend on rerecording the more money is wasted in the industry. After all time=money.

We had our team meeting with Zara in the seminar, who gave our script the all clear, although she made us aware that another group was doing the same script as us. We have created a google document between us so that we can all work on the proposal together. We are all going to listen to a radio drama that relates to our script and see what we can implement from it.