Guest Lectures – Bryan Rudd
We had a lecture from our course leader, Bryan Rudd; to talk about the creative process he went through, when working on a radio drama called ‘Chronicles of Freedom. This lecture was a case study to show us the creative and research process of a project like the one we are currently taking on. He started discussing the overview of the project, moving on to various issues he had, to research he undertook, to details that he would include in the final artefact in our project. He ran out of time in the end but gave some examples of questions that we may want to consider in our viva voce, and who he would answer them.
The project, (‘Chronicles of Freedom’) was a 5 part radio drama commissioned by BBC radio 7/BBC radio Humberside. The drama was to celebrate the 200th anniversary of William Wilberforce’s Elimination of the slavery bill and traces the life journey of Wilberforce towards ending slavery in Britain. Bryan’s role in this was: Producer, Co-director, Editor, technical production and music composer. He was also involved in this project at a fairly late stage, therefore didn’t have long to complete the task.
Bryan talked about some of the issues he had. Some of which was pre-involvement issues such has agreed budget not being large enough and actors already been chosen. However it has a 12 month schedule and he came in around 9 months in. He then moved on to talk about all the research he was required to do, including historical research (to insure it sounds like it’s from that time period), location research and technical research.
I found this lecture very informative around completing a professional audio project. It has helped me see the creative process that Bryan has been through, and made me think about solving problems that might come around and researching more in depth in my own project.