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

Chapter Nine
Interactivity and Enter-Educate
Drama
Group listening can encourage audience members to interact with the radio
drama and each other.
Learning Objectives
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To understand the meaning of interactivity and recognize its
importance in learning.
To know how to use interactivity within a serial episode
(i.e., intra-program interactivity).
To know how to use various types of interactivity following the
broadcast (i.e., post-program interactivity).
To understand how to use interactive questioning effectively.
Exercise
After reading this chapter, determine the best type of intra-program
interactivity for your drama, remembering that this decision depends on
whether it is a nontechnical or technical knowledge program.
For the sake of practice—even if you will not be using interactive
segments regularly—create an interactive question and answer segment in
your drama to follow one of the scenes that contains a message. Be sure to
abide by the guidelines for interactive questions. Try out your interactive
segment on a “sample audience” to see if they can answer correctly the
questions based on the information presented in the drama.
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