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84 Chapter Five: Character Development A good writer always gives the host some personal characteristics that the listeners come to know and expect. The writer handles the development and revelation of the personality of the host in the same way as the personalities of other characters. The only difference is that the writer reveals just one or two major characteristics of the host—just enough for the host to become a real person to the listening audience—while the personality of the other characters is revealed as fully as possible. In this opening scene from an Enter-Educate serial on family health, the host, Dana, reveals something of her own personality as she introduces the day’s episode. EXAMPLE DANA: Ah, there you are, Field Worker friends. I’ve been waiting all the week for this time to come around again. It’s my favorite time of the week, when we can be together and share ideas and experiences about our life as Field Workers. I wonder if you sometimes feel rather isolated on your job as I do. Sometimes, I just seem to have so much to do and no one to share with. Oh, my husband, Don, is wonderful. He’ll listen to me very patiently if I’ve had a particularly hard day, and I’m grateful that I can discuss things with him.... But it’s not quite the same as talking things over with another Field Worker. That’s why I look forward to our times together...when we can talk about things like treating children who have diarrhea.
Chapter Five: Character Development 85 Chapter Summary ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Characters are essential to every drama; they carry out the action and reveal the dramatic conflict and emotions that attract and hold the audience. Writers should develop characters who are realistic, appropriate to the message and the audience, varied, limited in number, and of a suitable age for radio production purposes. The characters selected for a particular radio serial depend on the message to be disseminated and can be determined largely by the event list drawn up during plot development. Writers can choose from a wide range of characters, including heroes and heroines, villains, comics, advocates, and role models. Writers should remember, when creating characters to attract and hold the audience, that listeners often are drawn more to villains than heroes. The major characters in the drama need to be fully developed— including an understanding of their predominant personality traits— before script writing begins. Detailed profiles should be drawn up before script writing begins, so that each character can be presented accurately and consistently throughout the serial. Characters reveal their true natures in four ways: in what they say, what they do, what others say about them, and how they react to given situations. Writers should understand how to use non-characters, notably the narrator and the host, effectively in radio dramas. 5
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