Bryan Rudd used this lecture to take us through his experience constructing a 5 part radio drama for BBC Radio 7 in 2007 to demonstrate a method by which we might present the details of our own project’s and the learning outcomes we achieve whilst carrying them out.
He reflected in detail on the problems he encountered stepping into the project at the 11th hour, the decisions he took to enable it’s completion and why they were taken, and how some of these translated into the positives or negatives of the piece as broadcast.
A key point, given the high pressure nature of the project he described, was deployment of effective project management and Bryan demonstrated how the constraints of the project and it’s brief effected the direction of research and decision-making, and how this was used in-turn to inform creative decisions such as recording locations, perspective choices and edit selection.
He also highlighted a couple of errors in the final product’s audio and explained his view of the judgement calls or pressures which led to them being missed in the final quality control process.
Given that my role of Supervising Editor in my group’s semester A project is similar in some respects to the multi-role Bryan adopted for this project – in that it entails key creative decisions, project management and research to fulfil both a brief and the artistic vision of the director and that project itself is relatively ambitious given it’s short time-frame – I would expect the case study he discussed to have more relevance than simply a demonstration of his reflection on the subject.
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