Topics we didn’t cover: Radio

Since I had wrote a mid-term paper, I didn’t need to do a final project, but I did think it would be fun to talk about news and radio—my two passions. Radio is another form of art that falls under the umbrella of DMA but can be overlooked (pun intended). I find this one of my favorite forms of art because it all takes place in your mind’s eye. It is so engaging because it completely captures your mind in a world that you have built. Recently my team member, Jazlyn Rust, and I made a radio drama that I got the inspiration for in this class. We found it a wonderful challenge to convince our audience to believe there was a character that was not a human without telling that he wasn’t human. It was fun to come up with the script when we knew that the audience will never see what is in our heads unless we describe it to them with voices, music and sound effects. I find this method of communicating so personal because you are only using one form of your senses—hearing. With the stage of your performance in the minds of the audience, this gives the perception of a one-on-one interaction.