CASTING
| Casting the best actors is 70% of the production. You absolutely depend on their talent. |
| Look at the AUDITIONS section of Alan Beck's RADIO DIRECTING site at http://www.savoyhill.co.uk/technique/learning/auditions1.html |
| STUDENTS: My rule is this - Students have total responsibility for CASTING. Teacher can suggest changes. Responsibility for below average acting remains with radio students.You are marked on the quality of the acting in your episodes. |
| It is your duty as DIRECTOR to go out and find the best actors. You have to go to live performances, ask around, network, ask student directors etc. You have to do the hard work of finding the best actors. |
| A KEY PROBLEM - CLUSTERING: characters' voices which are too alike and sound the same. This is a particular problem in radio drama. |
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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