Soap - marketing
Marketing the soap is part of the project.
This is an essential part of your work and has to be planned from the beginning.
Set up a web site.
Characters - descriptions
Drop in cues
Logging (for copyright material - especially music)
Interesting and entertaining
Contact UK student radio stations
http://www.sbn.co.uk/listen/stations.html
and
http://www.radioauthority.org.uk/radio-stations/rsls/sporting.htm
and
The Student Radio Association
Contact university RSLs (restricted service licences) any BBC competitions?
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Radio Soap (serial drama) - HOW TO MAKE IT
Five-minute episodes - or short episodes
Step by step instruction from Alan Beck.
Learn about radio drama on this site along with my book - Beck, Alan, Radio Acting, London: A & C Black (1997) ISBN 0-7136-4631-4
This is how to make a short-form soap - entertaining (above all) and you can include issues (issues that could influence the listeners' behaviour).
Further: production, scripting, web site, marketing, focus group meetings, drop-in script, copyright material logging, trails, soap launch.
LINKS WITH OTHER SITE
Radio Drama - directing, acting, technical, learning & teaching, researching, styles, genres
This is a complete curriculum of scripts, techniques, advice, sound files - effects and atmoses (with no copyright and so free to use), detailed script commentaries, etc. -
Contact: [email protected]
This site's address: http://www.savoyhill.co.uk/soap/index.html