War Of The World's Response Essay
War of the world's response essay.
During the War of the Worlds broadcast, the sound producers had the tough
task of making sounds, including an alien ship opening, sound authentic. They came up with very good sound effects, like putting a jar in the toilet and opening and closing the lid.
Also, the writers had to figure out how to make it sound believable and captivate audiences. They did this by strategically placed silences after some tragedy happened, ending all sound to simulate lost signal. They wrote a natural build of terrible things, instead of here's the story and instantly Terrible things immediately start happening.
The broadcasters dismiss what is happening as nothing until it is too late. This entices the audience to continue listening, which makes panic as it gets worse and worse the pauses to report other news stories add to the suspense as well. Also, at the time, there was no exaggeration in the radio business, they told the complete honest truth, and there was no reason to doubt the radio, so people thought they were reporting real events.
By using real places, somewhere people could look at a map and see or have previous knowledge of, the broadcasters were making it more realistic. And if the listener lived nearby, hearing everything happening around them, they would freak out more as they looked out their …show more content…
There is a lot of fear in today's world, and it could be what turns the USA into a war zone. It may not be as dramatic at first, but the longer it went on, and once people used social media to share the broadcast, with visual proof it was happening, it would have a long lasting, very dangerous effect. The radio is not as popular anymore, though, so it would take a more popular thing, like news station, to get the panic and response like the one in
During the War of the Worlds broadcast, the sound producers had the tough
task of making sounds, including an alien ship opening, sound authentic. They came up with very good sound effects, like putting a jar in the toilet and opening and closing the lid.
Also, the writers had to figure out how to make it sound believable and captivate audiences. They did this by strategically placed silences after some tragedy happened, ending all sound to simulate lost signal. They wrote a natural build of terrible things, instead of here's the story and instantly Terrible things immediately start happening.
The broadcasters dismiss what is happening as nothing until it is too late. This entices the audience to continue listening, which makes panic as it gets worse and worse the pauses to report other news stories add to the suspense as well. Also, at the time, there was no exaggeration in the radio business, they told the complete honest truth, and there was no reason to doubt the radio, so people thought they were reporting real events.
By using real places, somewhere people could look at a map and see or have previous knowledge of, the broadcasters were making it more realistic. And if the listener lived nearby, hearing everything happening around them, they would freak out more as they looked out their …show more content…
There is a lot of fear in today's world, and it could be what turns the USA into a war zone. It may not be as dramatic at first, but the longer it went on, and once people used social media to share the broadcast, with visual proof it was happening, it would have a long lasting, very dangerous effect. The radio is not as popular anymore, though, so it would take a more popular thing, like news station, to get the panic and response like the one in