Radio script analysis

 

•Format and style – the layout of the script is simple, with names of the characters on the far left of the page and what they say towards the middle/ right of the page. When SFX are used it is marked with F/X and what effect is used on the right and the whole sentence is underlined to break it up from the rest of the script. The language used is relatively formal but there is some crude language used like ‘arsed’. Other than that it is relatively well spoken. This particular script doesn’t address the audience because it is meant to entertain.

•Content – in the script, the content is what the characters have to say and the sound effects.

•Narrative structure – the beginning is of a man waking up with a hangover from a night out of drinking and he walks downstairs into the kitchen. The middle is of him and his girlfriend argueing because he never phoned her and she is making loud nioses by chopping stuff up and blending it. The end is of his girlfriend blending up all of his money and the forceing him to drink it.

•Genre – this is a comodey, when heard on the radio would entertain you with the sound effects and you realise that she knows more than she is letting on.
 

•Target audience – the target audience is middle aged housewives. Swearing and crude language appeal to the audience as well as shouting as they might not expect it and want to know what’s happened or what is going on. It is made for radio 4 listeners.