Setting up the SOAP BIBLE
You set up a 'SOAP BIBLE' of the agreed details - storylines, characters, locations, production and postproduction style, etc.
| This is a big task, and is the responsibility of the SOAP EDITOR. |
| You have to get the BASICS right and that means a lot of discussion. |
| A wrong turning in the BASICS can lead to trouble later! So be flexible, open to as many creative ideas as possible, but also be efficient. No individual should keep clutching an idea, just because it is their own. |
| Don't create a BOXED-IN CHARACTER - such as someone in depression, poorly able to communicate, and not capable of TRANSFORMATION. |
| Don't create a BOXED-IN LOCATION - such as an office, with one or two locations only. |
| Don't create a BOXED-IN STORYLINE - such as a repeating situation. (A continuously complaining character in one location keeps going on and on about the same subject.) |
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Radio Soap (serial drama) - HOW TO MAKE IT
Five-minute episodes - or short episodes
Step by step instruction from Alan Beck.
Learn about radio drama on this site along with my book - Beck, Alan, Radio Acting, London: A & C Black (1997) ISBN 0-7136-4631-4
This is how to make a short-form soap - entertaining (above all) and you can include issues (issues that could influence the listeners' behaviour).
Further: production, scripting, web site, marketing, focus group meetings, drop-in script, copyright material logging, trails, soap launch.
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Radio Drama - directing, acting, technical, learning & teaching, researching, styles, genres
This is a complete curriculum of scripts, techniques, advice, sound files - effects and atmoses (with no copyright and so free to use), detailed script commentaries, etc. -
Contact: radio@savoyhill.co.uk
This site's address: http://www.savoyhill.co.uk/soap/index.html