How to Write a Radio Serial Drama for Social Development- PDF

Chapter Eight
Scene Development
A writer works through the Event List and the Plot
Treatment to determine how the scenes in each
episode will fit together.
Learning Objectives
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To understand how to introduce the various plots gradually at the
beginning of the serial.
To be able to prepare an episode treatment.
To know how to prepare and use a plot chart to ensure consistency
within and between episodes.
To understand how to apply the guidelines for scene development.
Exercise
After reading this chapter and reviewing the guidelines, create treatments
for the opening four or five episodes of your serial. Write the dramatized
versions of these episodes, bearing in mind all you have learned so far with
regard to plot, scene, character, dramatic conflict, setting, and dialogue. If
you wish to practice correct script layout at this stage, you can follow the
guidelines in Chapter 11, Script Presentation. Check your episodes against
the guidelines for scene development.
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