Moving Forward (one step at a time)

Well this week we have finished with episode one finally! The over all product sounds good however its not mind blowing! Immediately after the episode was finished I played it to a group of young high school girls. This will be an on going exercise where we play all three episodes in a focus group setting to community members that have a direct link to the subject covered by the drama plays. We identified high school teenagers, nurses, teachers and parents as possible sources for the focus groups. The point behind all of this is to hear how the stake holders feel about the manner they have been represented through the drama series.
Reason two is to get more ideas for the next episodes. This helps us get in touch with the community and really get their true feelings about the subject of the radio drama plays.

Still on episode one!

Well there is not much to update you on as we have not yet started working on episode two, however we added two new scenes to episode one this week. We also made time to make a couple of important decisions which are as follows:

a.We are going to adapt the short drama play format (5 – 8 Minutes) this format is also used by Mhlobe wenene fm which our potential listeners are familiar with.

b.We’ve planned to have a 30 minute show on Radio Grahamstown in which we play the radio drama plays and have studio guests debate the content of the radio plays.


c. We have met with Radio Grahamstown management and it seems we might be getting the 2pm to 2: 30 pm slot on Thurdays.