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Our task was to imagine the many different sounds that could be heard in a Wild West setting. Then everyone had to create their own sound. The class came up with some creative sounds of explosions, gun shots, horses galloping and so on.
These sounds helped to create effective drama, as it gave us a good understanding of the setting and Wild West theme. I also found it easy to use the sounds and picture in my head what was going on at the time. For example, I could imagine how horses would gallop while the people were shooting in the air using their guns as different sounds were made.
However, to use only sounds to create drama would be extremely hard because you have to be able to create the sounds so that the audience will be able to understand what is going on in a performance. Also unless you make the sounds interesting, the drama won’t be interesting. With dialogue, it is a lot easier to perform while keeping the audience entertained.