The Broadcaster!

The radio play I have decided to analyse ‘The Broadcaster’.As part of my analyses I have to look at what effects and connotations the use of speech, sound effects, music and editing. The Broadcaster.Firstly the use of speech in this play is pretty simple to understand and follow. The storyline in my opinion is quite unusual, but it is a play so it is only imagination. It is also a very strange storyline. It’s about a radio presenter at the top of his game who works in a normal radio station. He becomes very isolated in the studio and because he striving to keep the ratings us but in the end he works himself to much and eventually become disillusioned. It’s quite a wacky story because it’s hard to understand but I think the story is trying to get across that no matter what you do not all things like working so hard is not worth much in the end because sometime nobody listens. The accents of the actors are American, the narrator as well. The narrator in the play explains what is happening quite well, I found it easy to understand what was going on but I think that the narrating needed more explanations towards the beginning as to what the story is about. Personally I didn’t like or enjoy this play because it’s such a random, wacky story.
For the music some of the music in this I thought was quite listenable but most of the songs were old but the play sounded like it was set in the early 60s. Although there isn’t a lot of music that is played throughout the play, but for the main part of the play is speech talking about the broadcaster and him talking to his employers. The music fitted the play well. For the sound effects that are used in the play in my opinion sets the scene. It is used to suggest movement, it suggests activity and it suggests that there is space. I don’t know a lot about editing but the editing is an important part of creating a play, if you have a time slot of say, 30 minutes, then it is good to delete or add scenes. For this play, it could have been much longer, maybe up to 50 – 60 minutes which isn’t any good if you want it to last for 30 minutes, which is what the running time for this play is. So it is good to edit the play and get rid of the material that you think wouldn't be any good.The Broadcaster, it was hard to tell whether there was any editing which is a good thing if you are the producer, you want a play to run smoothly without any problems. So I think that the use of editing has been used to its full effective.