Het Hoorspel

Naast de veel besproken vakken licht, beeld en elektra krijgen we dit jaar ook het vak geluid. We hebben nu een aantal weken theorie gehad en afgelopen week kregen we onze eerste praktijk opdracht; een hoorspel.

Tegenwoordig zul je bijna nergens nog een hoorspel tegenkomen. Niet op de mainstream radio zenders in ieder geval. Als je goed zoekt zul je misschien nog ergens één of twee zenders tegenkomen die nog hoorspellen uitzenden. Het is dus een vrij oud concept wat vooral populair was toen de televisie nog helemaal niet bestond (of een te grote luxe was om te betalen). Vandaag de dag kijken we TV series, in 1930 luisterde je op vrijdag avond naar een spannend hoorspel, bij wijs van spreken.

De Opdracht

Aan ons dus de taak om de nostalgie van het hoorspel terug te brengen. Om te beginnen moesten we, uit een lijst verhaaltjes, het verhaal kiezen wat ons het leukst leek om uit te voeren als hoorspel. Uiteindelijk hebben we (mijn kleine groepje) het volgende verhaal uitgezocht.

Politie op afroep

Een man ligt net in bed, wanneer zijn vrouw tot de ontdekking komt dat ze het tuinlicht heeft laten branden. De beste man is de beroerdste niet, dus gaat hij op zijn pantoffels naar beneden. Wanneer hij door het raam naar buiten kijkt, ziet hij onbekenden bij zijn garage naast het hij. Ze sjouwen met spullen. Inbrekers!

De man belt onmiddelijk de politie. Een agent aan de andere kant van de lijn vraagt hem of de inbrekers van de garage het huis in kunnen komen. “Nee, alle deuren en ramen van het huis zitten op slot”, antwoordt de man.
De  agent verteld dat alle agenten met andere zaken bezig zijn, maar dat hij een patrouille zal sturen zodra er weer agenten vrij zijn.

De man hangt de telefoon op, telt tot dertig en belt terug. “Hoi, ik belde jullie net om te melden dat er inbrekers in mijn garage staan. Nou, jullie hoeven niet meer te komen want ik heb ze neergeschoten.”

Binnen vijf minuten staan er drie politieauto’s met gillende sirene bij de man voor de deur. De agenten grijpen de inbrekers meteen in de kraag. Eén van de agenten roept de man ter verantwoording.
“Ik dacht dat je ze had neergeschoten!”

Hij antwoordt: “Ik dacht dat jullie zeiden dat er geen agenten beschikbaar waren.”

Het script voor het hoorspel is inmiddels klaar en is erg leuk geworden. Hoe we het bovenstaande verhaaltje gaan uitwerken in het hoorspel zul je te horen krijgen over een paar weken. Het MP3tje zal dan ook te downloaden zijn via deze website.

Robin

28 Days Later

You know what my favorite kind of movie is? Virus movies. I think this fascination for viruses started when I first watched the movie Outbreak when I was a kid. The idea that something as small as virus can spread around so fast and give us such a hard time dealing with it fascinates me a lot, especially since it isn’t just a movie story. Take the influenza outbreak we have going on right now, it’s spreading so fast we can’t even keep up with the numbers anymore.

After watching Outbreak there have not been a lot of movies that dealt with the contagious virus idea. At least non that I felt were decent. Then in 2008, game developer Valve released the game Left 4 Dead, which revolves around a highly contagious Rabies infection that turns people into mindless killers. The story is told during the course of the game in the form of wall writings by other non-infected who try to make their way to safety as well as other details integrated in the maps that tell you what happened. Ever since the game came out I have been loving Left 4 Dead. Each time I play through a location I notice new things and a new part of the story gets revealed. Then I found out about the movie this game was partially based on.

28 Days Later

Apparently there has been an awesome movie in existence since 2002 which I had no clue about. 28 Days Later tells the story of the incredibly dangerous Rage Virus. Originally meant as an experiment in primates, the virus is unleashed onto the United Kingdom when animal activists try to set the animals free. From there the virus spreads incredibly fast and within two weeks the government starts a nationwide evacuation. The UK is left abandoned, now home to thousands of infected and just a handful of survivors. 28 days after the initial infection we meet Jim, who wakes up in a hospital after having been in a coma for over a month.

Besides having a story I really like, this movie has other qualities I can respect. For instance the shots of a completely deserted downtown London are creepy to look at to say the least. Especially because there were no sets used for a large part of those shots. They actually sealed off parts of downtown London for 20 minutes at a time to shoot the footage.

Also the music in this movie is extremely good and well placed throughout the movie. It really sets the mood in a lot situations, particularly the mansion scene near the end of the movie. I love it when image and audio come together like that and the director of this movie, Danny Boyle, did an outstanding job on it. I have just found another favorite director.

28 Weeks Later

Obviously I’m not the only one who thought this movie was great, otherwise it would not have spawned one of the best movie sequels I have seen in a long time. Normally a sequel sucks compared to the original, this sequel is probably even better than the original! I will not give away too much of the story for those who still want to go and watch it, but you’ll be pleased to know that the awesome London scenes are still there, the awesome music is still there and the amount of gore in this movie has been increased quite a bit from the original. I loved it and hated it at the same time, haha. The only grudge I had against this movie was the ending, which was kept open and incredibly sucked. When they were making this movie they did not even know if there would be another sequel, so making it that open ended really pissed me off.

28 Months Later

Luckily Boyle is not done with the 28 movies yet. A third movie is said to be in development and is likely to hit the theaters in 2011. What it will be about is unknown up to this point, but Boyle has stated that it will try to move the story forward from where the second left off. If Boyle stays up to his standards then we can expect a movie which is even better than the second one, which should be great.

Trailers

Words can not really describe the mood these movies are set in though, watch the trailers below if you really want to experience what these movies are about.

Robin

Open School Night

Yesterday my school held an ‘Open School Night’. Basically this is an event that’s organized toward the middle and end of the school year to encourage new students to sign up for next year. I’ve seen about four of these events to this day and in the course of a few years they haven’t changed much. In the main lobby there is a whole bunch of stands with teachers annoyed having to be at school so late, trying to persuade you and your parents to pick that study. At least, that’s what you would expect.

Last year I went to the Open School Night since I was in fact looking to join the Media department. I knew what I wanted, so I had planned to just go there, get what I need and go home. But when I got to the Media stand the first thing I heard was ‘the department is full, we don’t take new registrations. We can put you on the waiting list, though.’.

Really?! If it’s full then why the hell did you put a damn stand there? No way in hell I’m going to wait 2 years to do a damn study. I was twenty for crying out loud. Obviously I did manage to get in eventually, otherwise this blog would be a whole lot of wasted server space.

Anyway, yesterday was no different from the night I had gone there to register. The media hallway (as it is known to most people in the department) had taken every piece of equipment we have from storage to create a very awesome display in our TV studio, obviously meant to show off the kind of stuff we do around here. Absolutely everything was there, from the expensive moving lights to TV cameras and even an auto-cue (I have no clue why we have such a thing at our school). It was very impressive to see when you walked inside, but you couldn’t exactly see anything going on from the main hallway. To solve this, me and a friend from class came up with the idea to set up a simple audio installation in the hallway, indicating to people that something was going on. And it worked, in less then five minutes from setting up we attracted a lot of curious people from down the hall.

We played some music, had two girls from another class do some chit chat over the microphone and generaly just had a good time. That day I think I was at school for a good twelve hours.

Pictures
Taken with the camera phone as usual, excuse the quality.

Robin

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