Title: What is a script?
Course: Hörspielwerkstatt / Radio Plays

What is a script?

There's no doubt about that: Before we can start recording we'll need a script.

A useful script for a radio play has to contain the following elements:
- all dialogues (direct speech) with the characters' names
- guidelines for the speakers telling them how to realise the sentences: friendly or unfriendly, nervously or tired, ...?
- sound effects (sounds of animals, a car or breaking glass) or background noise

But what can we do about the descriptions?
- There could be a narrator that tells parts of the story in between the dialogues,
- or we could try to include all the descriptions of what is happening within the dialogues. That is more difficult to do.

Clue #2 When writing a script for a radio play it's best to start from scratch and write a completely new text that is based on the story. It's not recommendable to copy and paste parts of the story into the script because the text might get fragmentary then and might no longer be coherent.