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Theatre Arts for Advanced Secondary Schools

Revision exercise 2

1. Being a leader in a scriptwriting team for an ongoing Tujuane TV serials,
you are responsible to remind your colleagues about creating dialogues
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that can reveal character traits, advance the plot and create tension in a
screenplay. Make a presentation on the role of dialogue in scriptwriting.

2. Prepare a presentation for a scriptwriter’s workshop on the concept of
structure in scriptwriting. Your presentation has to focus on the key
elements of a well-structured screenplay and their contribution to audience
engagement and coherence.

3. During a Q and A session that preceded a film screening, a scriptwriting
student wanted to know the similarities and differences on the principles
of writing for screen, stage and radio. Another student asked about the
impacts of these principles on the storytelling process. Respond to both
questions as a professional scriptwriter.

4. As a theatre arts expert working at the National Art Council (NAC), you
are hosting students from Leoleo High school visiting your office. One of
the students wished to know the importance of conflict in scriptwriting.
Respond to the question reflecting to the script that shows how conflict
drives a narrative forward and create dramatic tension.

5. You are invited to a TV program called Sinemeka, the host wants you to
explain to viewers the reasons to why writing of a radio play must follow
the prescribed format. Why should writing of a radio play follow the
prescribed format?

6. You are a host at a radio station in charge of a radio drama program.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to air the next episode of the ongoing
Kumekucha radio series that your audience have been patiently waiting
for. Keep your audience entertained by narrating to them the elements of
a radio drama.

7. As a successful screenplay writer attending an outreach event, address your
audience using a layman language on the differences between transition
and parentheticals in writing screenplays.

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