Primary and Secondary Research Audio Work and Synopsis

Radio play/ podcast ideas. My ideas are:

1. Spoken Word

With this idea I have decided that i am going to have two characters one of which is a councillor and the other who is receiving concealing, however the whole scene will be done in spoken word. The reason the girl is receiving counselling is because she killed her lover because he broke her heart (however the councillor doesn't no this yet) will all be revealed?

2. Good and Evil conscience

About a girl who is in a situation where she is torn between her good and evil conscience. A girl is being bullied and she sees her bully has been stabbed and she has asked for her help an she is finding it hard to make a decision on whether or not she should help even though deep down she knows she should.

3.Love

This is idea is solely around a girl who is deeply in love and she is expressing her feelings. What will all this expressing do to her, what will it lead to?"

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After showing my class the three ideas that I had in mind to base my audio play on 3 people voted for numbr 2, 3 people voted for number 1 and 6 people voted that i should pick idea number three which was:

"3.Love

This is idea is solely around a girl who is deeply in love and she is expressing her feelings. What will all this expressing do to her, what will it lead to?"

In order to do a audio play on love I took it upon my self to research love in different aspects in other words the good, bad and ugly parts of love. Although I have been in love myself and have experienced some parts of it I felt as if I should get other peoples opinions on, i felt that it would be better if I searched other opinions so that my audio play wouldn't be bias, I also thought other opinions would be appropriate because my audio play is not going to be based around me and my feelings because that would make it too easy. I am also going to look at what science says about love.

Love

As we know love can be looked at in many different ways, such as the love between a parent and child, the love between family and the love between friends etc, however I am looking at the love between to lovers.

After I done some researching i found something that i think broke down love in the most simplest form, it was broken down in to five stages. I read the five stages and I have decided to use the stage names they gave for each part of love but explain the stages in my own way.

Falling In Love

The "Falling in love" stage is the The earliest stage of love it may go something like this: the person you fall in love with will take up most of your energy, focus, and time to the point where you treat everything else going on in your life as a third wheel. You can't stop thinking about your lover. You get up and go to sleep obsessing about the relationship and what your future will look like together. This stage is the first stage of love AKA Falling in love

Becoming a couple

The "becoming a couple" stage is The second stage of love is the stage in which two people that are in love come together and become a couple. At this stage couples get over the deep craze they have for each other At the previous stage. The undergo less of a hormonal blend and more of a togetherness in the bond they share. Stage 2 is also when they start to think about building a life together.

Disillusionment

The "Disillusionment" stage is the stage in which couples get stuck and start to wonder weather or not they have made the right decision in building a life and even getting together with their partner. At this stage couples tend to go through "bumpy roads" and when they go through these rough times they tend to call it quits or tolerate each other instead of trying to use the rough times as an opportunity to to let their love grow stronger and sort out their differences.

Real, lasting love

Couples who work past the tribulations that start in the previous stage learn a lot about their partners and themselves. At this point, couples begin to aid each other and start on a process to heal each other’s wounds. The love that had supposedly disappeared slowly comes back, this time with wisdom and a heart-warmingly deep understanding of one another.

The bliss / Co-Creation Stage

There's nothing wrong with remaining at stage 4 in your relationship, in fact, that's where most couples that push at stage 3 stay. Nonetheless couples that reach this stage start to see their love affect the lives of others.

They may choose to write a book/articles together and use their experiences to help other people in the four stages they already past, or contribute to a service that may help people to enhance their love. Whatever they decide to do, this stage marks the final destination in love, many years spent together growing in mind, body and spirit

I am going to base my audio play around the stages above, not exactly on the them.

What does science say about Love

A speedy heartbeat, rosy cheeks, and sweaty hands are some of the fleshly symptoms of being in love. However internally there are also signs to show that an individual is in love

Scientifically people fall in love in thee stages

Stage 1: Lust

Lust is driven by the sex hormones testosterone (men) and oestrogen (women).

Stage 2: Attraction

This is the phase where an individual gets “love-stuck”. When people fall in love, love is all that is on their mind.

In this stage, a collection of neuro-transmitters called monoamines play an vital role:

• Dopamine - Also triggered off by cocaine and nicotine.

• Norepinephrine - Otherwise known as adrenalin.

• Serotonin – This chemical is important in love and sometimes can drive people mad

Stage 3: Attachment

This stage is what over rides after the attraction stage, if a relationship is going to go anywhere.

Attachment is a lengthier commitment and is the connection that keeps couples together when they go on to have children and build a life together. The two most important hormones released by the nervous system in this stage are thought to play a role in social attachments, they are:

• Oxytocin - This is released by the hypothalamus gland through childbirth and also helps the breast express milk. It helps strengthen the strong bond between a mother and child. It is also released by both sexes during orgasms. The theory goes that the more sex a couple has, the deeper their bond becomes

• Vasopressin - Another imperative chemical in the long-term commitment stage is a regulator of the kidney.

The reason that i decided to see what science says bout love was simply so that i could get a deeper look into what love triggers off internally, By looking at this i thought it would make it easier to talk about the way someone feels if they are deeply and happily in love juxtaposing to someone who has been hurt by love.

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As I mentioned all this research is for an audio play so i decided to look online to see if i could find audio plays based on love so i could gather ideas for when i make my own one. I looked around on the internet but unfortunately i couldn't find any plays that would benefit me or broaden my ideas for my final audio play. Eventually i found a song that was originally written as a story and was based on the good and bad aspects of love which i was going to base my audio play on. The video is below

Potential character ideas

Idea 1

I used the video above to get character ideas for my audio play because before studying it it had all the characteristics that i wanted my audio play to have. It's about a young black african american young lady who in a happy relationship until her boyfriend betrayed her by cheating on her and due to his disloyal behaviour during their relationship it lead Jhene into deep and painful heart break. Jhene's character in the video is how i want my character to be pictured by my audience a normal middle class casually dressed black young lady.

Idea 2

I have chosen to use kelly Rowland as a potential character, the reason in which i made this choice was because in her song "dirty laundry" she plays a heart broken girl who was troubled by her past relationship and jealousy, however her relationship was most the main reason why she was heart broken. In the video although she was singing she had quiet tone and she was direct and to the point with the message she giving off although she didn't say it in a code. Her song is called Dirty Laundry and in the song she decides to put out all of her problems just as if she is putting out dirty laundry, and after putting them out she comes to terms that what has happened in her life has happened and she decides to start a new slate in juxtapose to washing dirty laundry and making it clean again.

Potential Locations

I am planning to set my audio play in some type of conference room because two people will be carrying out a session similar to counselling, a empty one. I want the audio play to give off the effect that there is no one in the room besides the two voices that are talking.

I asked my class mates to choose one of the 5 locations in which they thought would be best

As you can hear on the audio most of the class chose number 2 so this is the one i will chose

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Real Life Story about Heart break

Seeing as i didn't find an actual audio play about love that was beneficial to me i decided to look at real life stories about heart break when it comes to love and relationships. At first i looked around on the internet to see what i could find but reading someones story aloud wasn't deep enough for me i really wanted to know how it felt to be heart broken, i wanted to see the emotion I wanted to get as deep into the shoes of someone that had been heart broken, so I decided to ask my mother about her experiences with relationship break downs and heart break. By listening to my mother talk about her bad experiences with love it allowed me to really hear the emotion in her voice, hearing her talk was good for me because when it comes to me recording my audio play i an use some of the same sounds and emotion she used so that my play sound natural and raw.

My mothers story was about when she was cheated on by her first husband, she told me how she felt. She told mr that she felt bruised and stupid because she gave so much to someone who didn't care about her, she felt as if she wasted her time. She told me what she felt internally. She said she felt nauseas and dizzy at times this was due to stress.