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WRITING FOR AUDIO

Writing an audio script can be very challenging as you must create worlds and characters using music, dialogue and sound effects. How can these three elements be used to create narrative depth and auditory space.

 

To begin, complete the following lessons below:

Turn Table

LECTURE - Writing for Audio

Click the VIEW NOW button to access the COM 322 lecture covering the basics of writing an audio script. 

Man Listening to Headphones

LISTEN - NPR: Sound and the Brain

In this episode of Close Listening on NPR, Bill McQuay and Christopher Joyce discuss how humans and animals have evolved to listen. Click the PLAY NOW button below to listen.

Radio Show

LISTEN - How To Write For Radio

This short audio play addresses the many mistakes often made by new audio scriptwriters. Click PLAY NOW button below to listen.

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LISTEN - Animal Urologist

Radio personality, Garrison Keillor, performs this bizarre radio play in front of a live audience as a foley artist creates sound effects to enhance the story. Click PLAY NOW to listen.

Vintage Radios

DOWNLOAD - Audio Script Sample

Click the DOWNLOAD button below to view a sample script for the Animal Urologist Audio Play. You are free to edit this template when writing your own Audio Script.

Car radio

FIND - Audio Commercial

Scourer the net and find a dynamic AUDIO commercial and briefly explain why you find this particular commercial interesting.

Crutches

WRITE - Cringe Story Adaptation

Using the descriptive elements from your Cringe Story, adapt this event for radio by writing an audio script using only music, sounds and dialogue to set the scene, introduce the characters and shape the experience.

 

500 Word Minimum

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