Episode one introduces most of the characters and the story unfolds with Nandipha going to the clinic to get contraceptives only to be met by the rude nurse. She then sleeps with her older man “suger daddy” or Bra mike without protection. It becomes clear from the get go that Nandipha only likes Bra mike for his money.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Episode two
In episode two we find out that Nandipha is actually pregnant and we are introduced to Sipho her ex-boyfriend who might also be the father of her unborn child. Bra-mike reveals his abusive side and slaps his increasingly suspicious wife and finally he encourages Nandipha to abort her unborn child. Nandipha considers suicide as she does not see a way out of her tough situation.
Episode three
And finaly in episode three we see Nandipha’s parents coming around and giving support once they realised that she was actually pregnant. Nandipha is not sure who the father of her child is but decides to name Bra-Mike the father.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Curtain Falls!
We are now done with all three episodes and ready to record the pilot show with in-studio guests. The overall idea is to have an in-studio discussion after airing each episode, in which we will have community members as guest’s to discuss the relevance of the radio drama, what it means to them and what lessons can the community take out from it.
The project has presented great opportunities to Vicky and I to combine journalism with radio drama and I believe we have chosen an unorthodox yet effective manner of communicating with the community.
Firstly we drew from alternative journalism principles such as civic and development journalism to helped us to generate relevant content through the workshops we designed and the focus groups session we held with general community members, by general I mean community members that are not part of the Ikhaya team.
With the content that we gathered journalistically we decided to report through a reality grounded fictional radio drama. The dramas are reality grounded, in the sense that the issues that the radio dramas deal with are actual issues that the community we are reporting to are really facing. The fictional aspect of it comes in, when we create the characters that will deliver the story lines and some of the characters are over the top and stereotypical.
The overall end product sounds good and now our last task is to hand over the project to a third party who will run the project with both the Ikhaya team and Radio Grahamstown.
We will have a presentation where we present the unorthodox method of journalism meets drama. We hope the prospective party will be impressed and take this great initiative forward.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
One more Episode to go!
Episode one introduces most of these characters and the story unfolds with Nandipha going to the clinic to get contraceptives only to be met by the rude nurse. She then slept with her older man “suger daddy” or Bra mike without protection. It becomes clear from the get go that Nandipha only likes Bra mike for his money.
In episode two we find out that Nandipha is actually pregnant and we are introduced to Sipho her ex-boyfriend who might also be the father of her unborn child. Bra-mike reveals his abusive side and slaps his increasingly suspicious wife and finally he encourages Nandipha to abort her unborn child. Nandipha considers suicide as she does not see a way out of her tough situation.And finaly in episode three we see Nandipha’s parents coming around and giving support once they realised that she was actually pregnant. Nandipha is not sure who the father of her child is but decides to name Bra-Mike the father.
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