Tuesday, January 25, 2011
I can completely see why people who missed the beginning of the War of the Worlds radio broadcast would think that the fictional broadcast was real. The way Orson Welles played out the story was in a way that made the content sound completely true and unscripted. The way the diologue cut off the music that typically played during radio broadcasts, the sound effects in the background of the reporter (screams, white noise, ect) made the broadcast sound real. Also, the way the reporter's broadcast was abruptly cut off at the end gave the drmatazation a dramatic ending, which, for people who didn't know the broadcast was fake, could have easily led to panic. Overall I think the radio broadcast version of War of the Worlds was much mor effective than the written story, and gave the audience the feeling that they were actually in the middle of the action
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I have to agree with your comment about how if listeners did not catch the beginning of the broadcast saying that it was fictional, it was a completely believable broadcast. They way they created the scene through sound effects, music, and speech made what the listener was hearing seem 100% true. I liked how they ended the broadcast by suddenly cutting it out. The broadcasters wanted their audience to feel something while listening. They wanted to stimulate a sense of panic in the listener.
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