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

162 Chapter Eleven: Script Presentation
❽ Remarks Column. An option rather than a requirement, the remarks
column provides the writer with a place to make comments or
suggestions directed to the support materials writer, monitors, or
evaluators. The writer might, for instance, want to ask monitors to
observe whether the audience understands a new analogy used in the
script.
In the following script, the writer uses the remarks column to remind the
support writer what to include in Health Worker’s Handbook, which is the
support material being prepared for this series of programs. The writer wants
to ensure that the handbook and the script use the same Health Worker
Contraceptive Checklist.
EXAMPLE
5. HW: I am glad you have come to ask my advice
about the contraceptive pill. It may very well be
an appropriate for you. First, however, we must
be sure that you do not have any of the
conditions that make it unwise for a woman to
use the pill. May I ask you some questions
6. SHANA: Yes, of course.
7. HW: Are you taking any medication for TB or for
epilepsy
8. SHANA: Goodness, no. I am perfectly healthy.
9. HW: Good. Then tell me, have you ever had any
blood clots in your legs, your eyes, or your
lungs
10. SHANA: No.
11. HW: What about bleeding Have you had any
vaginal bleeding lately
12. SHANA: No, again.
13. HW: I have already checked your blood pressure, so I
know you are not in the danger zone which is
anything higher than 180 over 105. So far
things are looking good. And I have also
checked your breasts and found nothing to
suggest you might have breast cancer.
14. SHANA: Does that mean then that I can take the pill
15. HW: I think so. There is one more category of
women who shouldn’t take the pill, but you
don’t fit it.
16. SHANA: What is it
17. HW: Women who are over 40 years of age and
smoke more than 15 cigarettes a day.
Support Writer:
Be sure to put the
list of conditions in
the Health
Worker’s
Handbook