Third week! I´ve made it so far.

The script is realy taking shape now. Brother Sloan sent us a lot of information on other radio projects that he has been doing. Interesting reading for me as I am in this process of learning about and finding out what live radio drama is. After reading some of the responses given from the students of  the other projects it really supported me in the idea of how this experience of the whole process would be and that it indeed has a lot to do with the process we are going through and not nececarily so much about the final product.

Well, this week we also assigned the tasks/positions of our live radio drama. As I have been working a lot with technical equipment and sound engineering in my work with musicals in Denmark, I took upon the role as technical director of our piece. I am very excited about doing this, I also think it is quite cool to be able to work in a real TV-studio. Maybe I will not have the big acting role in the piece, but that actually suits me perfect, I do not consider myself a great actor. I think I will contribute better this way.

I feel that the group is really getting closer to work more as a team now. Nobody is dictating and nobody is completely silent as well.

We got a task from Mr. Sloan, that we should listen to "War of the worlds" by Orson Welles and find out how they connect the different scenes. I downloaded the original piece from 1938 and listened to it on my iPod. Who would have believed that such an old radio transmission would end up being played on an iPod. Funny as technology and history evolves.

I was rather impressed by this old piece. The timing, the acting and the technical perfomance is quite impressive, I mean we are talking 1938? I have no hard time imagining how people at that time could be fooled.

I have great respect for Orson Wells and his ability to direct pieces. One of my favorite movies: Citizen Kane (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/) is also one of his masterpieces. The construction, the timing, the visual imagery/sound imagery and the way of doing things in a new way is impressive to me.

Well, this is it for now. I will report back to the station after next weeks adventures:)
Jones