Questions:-

APPLICATION ORIENTED COURSE IN

WRITING FOR RADIO

Programme: BDP

Assignment Code: BDP/BEGA/TMA/2017-18

Max Marks: 100

Note: This assignment has 8 questions. Attempt all 8 and answer each question in approximately 300-350 words unless stated otherwise.

1. Define mass communication. Describe the role of radio in mass communication. (10)
2. While designing a radio script, what devices should be used by the scriptwriter to first engage and then to sustain the interest of the listeners? (10)
3. State the nature of a radio documentary and discuss the mode of research and narration to be followed in preparing a radio documentary. (10)
4. Discuss the various components of a radio play. (10)
5. Write a radio script for a discussion on any one of the following: (15)
6. a) Use and misuse of mobiles
7. b) Creche-a second home for infants and children
8. c) Are men now the marginalized sex?
9. Script Public Service Announcements for the radio on any three of the following: (5 × 3=15)
10. a) Ban Smoking
11. b) Blood Donation
12. c) Ban Child Marriage
13. d) Join the Indian Army/Armed forces
14. Write a script for a radio play based on a ghost story you have heard, indicating sound effects, narration and dialogues wherever needed. (15)
15. Based on the following poem, script a story for the radio, targeting class IX students, inserting sound effects, music and narration: (15)

The Listeners

          By Walter De La Mare

‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,

          Knocking on the moonlit door;

And his horse in the silence champed the grasses

          Of the forest’s ferny floor:

And a bird flew up out of the turret,

          Above the Traveller’s head:

And he smote upon the door again a second time:

          ‘Is there anybody there?’ he said

But no one descended to the Traveller:

          No head from the leaf-fringed sill

Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,

          Where he stood perplexed and still

But only a host of phantom listeners

          That dwelt in the lone house then

Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,

          That goes down to the empty hall,

Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken

          By the lonely Traveller’s call.

And he felt in his heart their strangeness,

          Their stillness answering his cry,

While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,

          ‘Neath the starred and leafy sky;

For he suddenly smote on the door, even

          Louder, and lifted his head:-

‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,

          That I kept my word,’ he said.

Never the least stir made the listeners,

          Though every word he spoke

Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house

          From the one man left awake:

Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,

          And the sound of iron on stone,

And how the silence surged softly backward,

          When the plunging hoofs were gone.