LOCATIONS - YOU CAN PLACE YOUR SCENES ANYWHERE!
Rules for a fixed-end radio soap (serial drama)
| GROUP WORKING LOCATION: e.g., office where they all have their desks and meet, and meet with the Boss. In a sci-fi, a spaceship (which can be very big, but the crew gather on the bridge like 'Startreck'). |
| HOME LIVING LOCATIONS FOR THE HEROES: bedrooms especially |
| OFF TO HAVE A DRINK: bar nearest work, social bar area on the spaceship, coffee shop |
| REPETITION OF LOCATIONS: This helps the listeners with remembering characters and linking a character with a particular location. The INNOCENT BOY and the STREETWISE BOY go to the pub. The BOSS sees clients somewhere. The BOSS's office. |
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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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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. -
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