'The story so far ...' - new listeners start here - putting
over the story so far
| You have to put over the KEY BASICS about the SET-UP every so often.
For example, in 'SPACE DETECTIVES ARE GO!', that our heroes are a detective
agency set in the future. |
| In EPISODE ONE, of course, you have to begin with the SET-UP. This
first episode of the soap has special requirements. See EPISODE
ONE - special requirements |
| At the beginning of each broadcasting 'week' (CLUMP FOR MONDAY TO
FRIDAY), you need to set up a new PLOT LINE, and to remind the listeners
of the SET-UP. |
| ' New listeners start here' - you help new listeners somewhat. You
will gather along new listeners at any point in the broadcast. At times
you will remind them of the SET-UP and the CLUMP PLOTLINE. But you cannot
waste time doing this for every episode. |
| Scripting 'the story so far...' takes skill. It cannot be done too
obviously. It cannot be clunky. But it has to be done. |
| |
| |
EXAMPLES - we are reminded what the HEROES do as a business
- they are detectives.
(FROM 'SPACE DETECTIVES ARE GO!' - we go straight into the middle of
a meeting between a distressed new client for the company and the woman
BOSS)
3.1.2.
Zelda's Ofiice. Maggie Nifficent is talking to her through a video phone.
1 Zelda: Mrs Nifficent, I'm not sure we can help you.
2 Maggie: Please, call me Maggie.
3 Zelda: Maggie. I'm not sure we have the equipment to keep this assignment
as top secret as you'd like.
4 Maggie: Please, you have to help me. You're the best detective team in
the galaxy.
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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).
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