DETECTIVE (genre)
Publicity - for selling this sort of soap
We're expecting the unexpected - and we're preparing for it
You expect the unexpected - and we'll prepare you for it.
DETECTIVE OPENING LINES FOR MONOLOGUE - the hero detective could provide a continuing strand of monologue throughout the episodes:
This is the true story of --- It just hasn't happened yet.
There is nothing like a little bit of truth to sell the biggest lies
Imagine an orchestra behind them - the Love Theme rises and swells.
Some kinds of dying take longer than others.
How slowly, how very slowly, time seems to move.
You may think that detective work is all a heart-thumping, twig-snapping, blood spattering business, but you misread the clues.
You think that you are becoming more protected - you think you have responded to all the warnings. You chip and pin. You shred your bank statements. You hope your identity is not stolen. And that's where I come in.
Evening sky - everything grey. You name everything. You think everything can be labelled.
If you're a detective, you have to get used to being outdoors a lot.
Techniques - STYLISH SLIGHT REPEATING KEY PHRASES UNDER EACH OTHER -
what I call 'quarter-layering'
In the key explanation section - where you explain the KEY DETAILS of the
crime etc., you can use a trick of REPEATING THE KEY WORDS UNDER - to make
it more impressive and to give yourself more style.
The victim's blood spatter pattern, the MO of the typical aggressor, all lead to this - Fatal Attraction Syndrome (Fatal Attraction Syndrome - repeated under but with a short delay so there is a slight overlap) - the sad and fatal result of obsessive love ('obsessive love' repeated just slightly ditto) - not just post-romantic bunny-boiling but a downward spiral into loneliness and unattractive violence ('loneliness and unattractive violence' - ditto) + use underscoring music and effects. See underscoring music - chords AB - etc, in SOUND BOX.
(videos cause violence?)
Who knows what Jack the Ripper watched? Not videos - not dvds
The truth about criminal insanity is that it all starts as reality and
then gets twisted. And that's because reality is tortured until it fits
the preordained fantasy.
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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.
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