Scripting - specialities

 

Matrix Reloaded
"Not everyone believes what you do Morpheus." ... "My beliefs do not require them to."
"You believe that it is a matter of hope; I believe that it is a matter of time."
"My commands do not require your comprehension; they only require your cooperation."
"What some see as coincidence I see as providence."
Do you need philosophy with 250,000 angry spider robots knocking at your door

Are you just here to say cute things at cute times?

OFFICE RUNNER - WORK EXPERIENCE BOY
Inefficient and satirised - chance to make fun of this intern. Worst of all possibles to take this post. Resentful at low status.
How he got the post - relation? ex-affair? friend of a friend?
Jobs - low status jobs and he gets them wrong - shredding documents, coffee, post
And the plot turns on him
has bad habits - smoking? washing?
complains all the time
bad office gossiper - so lets confidential information through

Office Boy gets good advice from others about how to forward his career, and always neglects it.
I used the opportunity to watch my boss like a hawk - about negotiating, networking
All I get to do is to shred documents, make coffee and take X's dry cleaning down to the …. I want to do more

Guess what the blockage was - a condom!
Whose?
How am I to know whose condom it was? Was it monogrammed? Can I do an on-the-spot DNA test?
It's got to be X - he doesn't yet know that you don't put a condom down the loo.
I know - he's not that toilet literate.
You'll have to tell him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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