Research and Planning: Styles

Styles
We wanted our radio drama to be related to teenagers, therefore we had to make a generalization of teenagers, what they would find interesting and what would happen stereotypically in a drama about teenagers. The audience for a drama about teenagers is only really teenagers so we have a limited audience. We gained inspiration from current television drama's Skins and Shameless which are very big amongst young people however you don't really come across radio drama's made for teenagers so we thought we'd make one.

We looked at styles of radio drama; 'killing me softly' touches on subjects we use in our radio drama about passionate and dangerous love affairs but it is more of a thriller than a drama, 'we need to talk about Kevin' is again vaguely related to what we wanted to do with our drama but this is based more on the parental story than the teenagers account. We have adopted the Soap opera type style that is conveyed in 'The Archers' and I would say our drama shares more similarities with this than any other radio drama despite the very different audiences; we want to appeal to 16- 30 year olds, 'The Archers' is aimed at 40- 60 year olds.