So, be artistic. The three elements of radio drama are, of course, dialogue, music, and sound effects. I actually rank them in that order of importance. I find music much more vital than sound effects. Music paints settings and pushes the audience s emotional buttons.
Sound effects are just the action and background locations.
I didn t always feel this way. You d naturally think that your SFX kit is the radio imagination machine, but I found out the hard way that it s dangerous to rely heavily on sound effects. Radio s blindness tripped me up for a fall as big as Fibber McGee s notorious closet sound effect. Anyway, the main character is baking cookies and chatting with a friend when she receives a mysterious voodoo doll, pricks her finger and faints. She reacts to these wrong sounds.