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Brainstorm Radio Show Ideas

hmmmm……Radio show ideas about noir? This radio can include music that reflects a noir style. The talks can be about music or movies that have a noir style. In the radio, we can also include real life things such as celebrity info who are having a “noir” moment. i.e. love …

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Noir Radio Thoughts

Listening to the DS106 Noir-themed radio really made me realize that sound is a critical element of storytelling. I’d definitely like to create a more modern story because I find the overall bigotry sometimes found in older Noir unacceptable. I think it’d be cool to invert some of those conventions, …

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Radio Show Ideas

I’d really like to channel Gotham (obviously without the superheroes) but something about a corrupt city/mobs/dirty politicians etc. I’ve noticed with radio it’s important to keep the characters to a minimum to avoid confusion so maybe a mob idea isn’t the best but a corrupt-esque scandal could work. After reading …

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Radio Show Ideas

Here are some ideas I have for a 20-30 minute radio show:

Fictional News Emergency – I always thought it would be entertaining (not just for the audience, but for myself) to reenact an emergency news situation and to say the famous lines “This Just in!…” and then rant about…

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Radio Show Ideas

One concept I have used for my character dossier is the Jerk with the heart of Gold concept that is conceptualized in Noir film. For a radio idea I was thinking maybe having a real Jerk with a heart gold on the show and people could call in and share …

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Brainstorming Power!

I would love to talk about how the noir feel transfers from text to film.
A few things we could talk about would be:

What we thought was better, the text or film?
How did audio help the film?
How did extra information besides dialogue help the text?
How did…

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Ideas for a Radio Show

These are some of my ideas for a future noir themed radio show:

book readings- stories we have read for class
story time/ movies- movies we have watched with the noir theme or stories that we have created
noir character talks- group characters stories and lives/ random situations
songs
remixes/edits…

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Radio Show: Noir Remixed

To make a 20-30 minute radio show seems like a monumental task right now, but there are a few things that might make it more interesting. First of all, I think murder mysteries are fun to listen to, but kind of overdone. I think it would be hard to keep …

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Radio Show Brainstorm: SUPERNoir!

A few weeks ago, I was inspired by my fellow classmates, the world of superheroes, and my newly acquired knowledge about the world of film noir and was doing a bit of midnight musing.

Something I am interested in exploring in the coming weeks is the style of noir and …

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