In the radio drama we used several conventions, such as sound effects, the use of music and silence. Giving the character Nick a Scottish accent was a convention we used to have him come across as a bit more loud and aggressive to the audience to reflect his personality. We took on popular conventions of other radio dramas, like War of the World's realistic radio news broadcasts. Our radio drama takes on the narrative convention of Todorov's equilibrium theory, but deviates from it slightly by not instating at the end a new kind of equilibrium.
My poster uses several conventions to attempt to get across to the audience the idea of the genre of our radio drama. I took inspiration from posters of a similar genre like War of the Worlds and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I used a desaturated, grey image of a wall to reflect the serious tone of the drama, along with the red text as a connotation of danger which is the thriller, survival aspect of the drama. I also used several structuring conventions observed on War of the Worlds and Hitchhiker's Guide posters, making the title the largest, central focus of the poster, along with smaller wording for other text.
I utilized several conventions for my double page feature. I looked at feature pages for Doctor Who for influence in the creation of my double page feature. I made sure to include attention capturing devices like large text, pictures and quotes all to entice the reader, seen in real science fiction features, like Doctor Who. Also, again to reflect the genre and tone of the drama I used the colour red and pictures of slightly grungy walls. I kept the text fairly minimal like with other double page features to make sure that readers were not put off by the amount of text there was.
Overall, my poster, double page feature and radio drama mainly use and develop conventions rather than challenging them, but utilize them well enough for a good outcome.
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