Summer camp students tune into learning about radio

The Gateway to Arts summer festival unveiled a summer camp featuring radio drama, a form of storytelling broadcast on the radio that relies on sound effects, voice acting, and music to convey the plot and emotions.

Eight children joined the camp from Monday to Tuesday at the festival, under the guidance of sound engineer and producer Feng Hanying and faculty members from the audio engineering major course at the China Conservatory of Music and Communication University of China.

According to Feng, the students can fully utilize their imagination, creativity, and practical ability through the creative recording and production of radio dramas.

The students integrated, edited, and mixed the recorded dialogue, and sound effects they collected or created, and selected background music, using software, ultimately transforming them into their own radio drama works, Feng says.

The annual art festival kicked off on July 4 with a concert at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in the capital by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Tan Lihua. In more than 50 days, live performances and summer camps offer young art lovers the opportunity to experience a diversity of art forms.

Since 1995, the annual festival, which is one of Beijing's biggest arts festivals for children during the summer vacation, has gained a large fan base.