CSP War of the Worlds- Industries & Audiences

Content

• Some sort of strange creature has arrived on Earth, with hydrogen gas.
• You are quite certain life outside Earth doesn't exits. How do you explain this.
• Well that seems safe enough.
• A Meteiorite crashed on a farm- doesn't look like one. Looks unusual.
• Definetly extra-terrestrial.
• The police have come in.
• Dead bodies
• Government talks
• Retrating
• Scientific explanations- heat ray. Talking in simpler terms for audience.
• Wait what's coming out of the cylinder.
• Invading army from Mars- 7,000 against them army- few survivors. 
• Stay calm the enemy is confined. 
• Damaged communication labels- aid from Britain, France & others.
• Firing at the enemy.
• Counting many numbers to the army bomb planes.
• Poison areas- avoid congested areas. 
• Halfway through they reinforce it being fake.
• Philosophical talks
• Matian's finally mentioned.
• Aftermath- someone willing to fight.
• Finding some form of life
• Another person alive
• Aliens learning to fly.
• Reminiscent of the past
• Monologue
• Reminding everyone is fake.
• Halloween

Music/sound effects

• Static
• Raymond Rocello and his orchestra.
• Applause
• Voiceover
• Ticking- vibrations
• Telephone & other communications
• Very nice music- piano
• Wind howling
• Yelling crowds
• Hissing
• Scraping noise
• Sirens
• Horns
• Screams
• Bombs
• Firing
• Coughing intensified.
• Army bombing planes
• Engines failing
• Calling
• 3 thousand people try evcuating.
• Prayers.
• Enemy is approaching New York- & all of America. 
• Noises- enemies attacking areas.
• Dropped microphone
• Call ends
• Intermission
• Much sadder music
• Last living man on earth hiding.
• Broadcasting buildng noises
• Bells- evacuation.
• Laugh
• Outro
• Radio name

Who speaks?

• HG/Orson Wells
• News anchor
• Professor Richard Pearson
• Carl Phillips
• Dr Grey- Natural History museum
• Mr Wills- farmer
• Eyewitness accounts
• Professor 
• General Montgomery Smith
• Red Cross- Washington DC.
• Policeman
• Harry Mcdonald
• Richard pearson

Any conventions from news/documentories?

• Interrupting whats happening.
• Bullitens
• We interrupt this boradcast
• Talking over music
• Letting music play
• Music quieting down
• Updates
• Interview with professionals.
• Well that seems safe enough.
• Seraches
• Reminding audiences where they are.
• We've dispatched a team.
• Same reporter travelling everywhere.
• Please speak louder.
• Egging him on.
• Stopping him mid-speak.
• Can't believe we're getting this.
• Can't stop looking at it.
• Monster
• Reporter too scared and is interrupted.
• As long as I can talk.
• Cutting out and cutting completely
• Telegrmas
• Dead bodies
• No one should enter this area. 
• Earliest possible moment.
• Faces 
• Newspaper
• Reinforcing radio's importance.
• Communications are down
• Stay calm
• "Ladies amd Gentlemen"
• Trying to find people the lost.
• This may be the last broadcast.
• This is the end
• Anyone on air.
• Did you hear that?
• Patriarchy
• No hope left
• No war
• Plans
• Not using their guns.
• Escape
• New society
• Rebellion
• Resisting the world

What is it?

17th episode of CBS radio series The Mercury Theatre on aid- broadcasted 8PM ET Sunday the 30th October 1938. H.G.Wells main novel tells a story about a Martian invasion of earth. Indended as entertainment form- Halloween.

Language- Genre & Narrative

• Broadcast- loose adaptation of 'The War of the Worlds' novella- H.B.Well 87. 
• Regarded as 1 of first science fiction e.g.s & serialised under Pearson Magazine (UK) & originally Comspolitan.
• Earliest e.g- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley 09, featuring a monster (man made…