English: Broadcasting Play
An art form that adapts to the needs of radio broadcasting. According to the characteristics that the audience can only appreciate by hearing, the radio drama is based on character dialogue and explanation, and makes full use of musical accompaniment and sound effects to enhance the atmosphere. Character dialogue is the main means to promote plot development. Radio dramas require reviews to be personalized, colloquial, and full of action. Actors must enunciate clearly and express accurately, lively, and sincerely. The soundtrack must be distinctive, ups and downs, and touching. The sound effects must be realistic, and the commentary should be helpful. The audience understands the situations and characters’ actions in the play.
Features:
A dramatic form recorded mechanically using language, music and sound as means. The loss of visual means is the weakness of radio dramas. However, only auditory means (language, music and sound) can not only fully mobilize the imagination of the audience, so that they must directly participate in creation and obtain special artistic enjoyment; but also, due to the loss of visual means, , allowing radio dramas to gain greater freedom of time and space when unfolding plots, and making fantasy, dreams, memories, etc. ideal themes for radio dramas. Since radio dramas only have auditory means, it is not suitable to show scenes with many characters or complex and multi-threaded plots. The clues are required to be simple and clear, and the characters are concentrated.
History:
In 1924, "Danger" broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation was the first radio drama in the world recorded by a radio station. In China, in the 1930s, a group of dramatists wrote radio dramas to promote the anti-Japanese war and became the pioneers of Chinese radio dramas. In February 1950, the Central People's Broadcasting Station recorded and broadcast "Ten Thousand Plywood", the first radio drama after the founding of the People's Republic of China. After that, the radio drama repertoire became increasingly rich. After entering the 1980s, according to incomplete statistics, the total number of radio dramas produced every year was 500. Because radio dramas are so convenient to watch, long-form dramas have been recorded and broadcast in many countries. Some can be played continuously for several years and are very popular among listeners.