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126 Chapter Eight: Scene Development Family Affair Page 2 of 2 Episode 9 Draft: Final Writer: Fred Daramani Date: August 1992 15. ADODO: Who but a thief would want to buy such shoes for so low a price 16. WOMAN: Look here, don’t insult me. All I did was ask for a reduction. What’s wrong in making such a request 17. ADODO: I know you have no intention of buying. You only come to spy on me in order to inform your armed robber husband. 18. WOMAN: Woman, mind your tongue...or I’ll have you locked up. 19. ADODO: Let’s see you do it. Go and report me. I am prepared for anything. 20. KAWE: What is the matter, Adodo 21. WOMAN: (CUTTING IN) My sister, just listen to this. All I did was ask for the reduction of the price of her shoes...nothing more. Is there anything wrong with that 22. ADODO: She only came to make fun of me. How can you buy such expensive shoes for five hundred cedis Just imagine that. 23. WOMAN: But what is.... 24. KAWE: (CUTTING IN) Madam, if you think the shoes are not worth much, you go your way and she also keeps her shoes. I don’t see the point in caroling. 25. WOMAN: Madam, I respect you. But for you, I would have mashed this witch into a ball of kenkey. Who knows...her things might be stolen things. Maybe I should go and report her to the police. 26. ADODO: Are you calling me a thief Come back! Come back you coward! Devil! 27. KAWE: It’s okay, Adodo. Allow her to go. 28. ADODO: If it hadn’t been for you, I would have ground her like flour from the “nikanika.” 29. KAWE: It’s okay. Adodo, they are having immunization at the clinic today. 30. ADODO: Is that where you are going to 31. KAWE: Yes, why don’t you come along with me You remember the last time you didn’t send your baby.... 32. ADODO: I don’t think I can go today either. I have a whole lot of things on my hands. 33. KAWE: Adodo, that’s what you always say. Don’t you know that immunization is very important for your baby. 34. ADODO: Is it Who will look after my wares if I go to the clinic
Chapter Eight: Scene Development 127 7. Identify the emotion of each scene. One or two scenes in each episode should express a positive emotion, but perhaps not the opening or closing scenes. The opening scene needs to attract the audience with immediate action, and the closing scene should end on a note of suspense. In the episode treatment of Too Late, Too Bad, scenes 3 and 4 express positive emotions, while the others are more negative. 8. Pace each scene so that it gathers momentum towards the end. After attracting the attention of the listeners with a hook at the beginning, the scene can slow down and the dialogue proceed more deliberately. Individual speeches can be a little longer in the middle portion of a scene, and this is where any major message information should be conveyed. The dialogue should speed up at the end of the scene to heighten the action, the emotion, and the tension and to end the scene on a note of expectation or suspense. 9. Keep the scene on real time. Serial dramas proceed slowly, at the pace of real life. As much as possible, the action of each scene should occur within real time. In other words, if a scene lasts five minutes on the radio, then the characters should carry out only as much action as is possible in five minutes in real life. The use of real time encourages listeners to believe they are listening in on real life. (More information on indicating and controlling time in a serial can be found in Chapter 6.) 10. End each scene on a note of suspense or, at least, with an unanswered question. Leaving the action incomplete holds the audience’s attention as they wait to find out what will happen next in that particular plot. A suspenseful ending at the end of an episode is sometimes called a cliffhanger, a term that originated in early adventure serial movies. These films frequently ended with a chase scene in which the hero, trying to escape the villain, slipped or tumbled over a cliff. There he would be left, literally hanging by his finger tips, as the episode ended. The audience would be forced to wait until the next episode to find out if the hero would fall or be rescued. Today, the word cliffhanger refers to any suspenseful ending. 8 EXAMPLE 18. MOTHER: (COMING IN, SCREAMING) My baby...my baby... Oh God...my baby.... Somebody’s taken my baby. Help me! 19. MUSIC. CLOSING SIGNATURE MUSIC UP :05 AND OUT. 20. NARRATOR: And so ends today’s episode of our story. We’ll have to wait till next time to find out what has happened to the baby. Be sure you’re listening.
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