Year Six - Podcast Script

L.O. To revise story structure

We are creating a podcast. This will be hosted on baldworm.blogspot.com, allowing everyone – from Year Three to your Gran in Germany – to hear your work! Brilliant!

We will record the podcast on Thursday and Friday. Remember to think about where you will include music and sound fx; use humour to grab your listener’s attention!

Here is an example of a podcast script:

SALLY: Welcome to the Year Six Story Structure Podcast, in association with baldworm.co.uk

HIBA: We are going to teach you all about how to structure a story – and they’ll be lots of jokes and fun along the way!

SALLY: We’ll be giving you lots of examples, so you know exactly how to use the writer’s techniques we’ll be talking about!

HIBA: Here is an example of a brilliant opening line: “Don’t you dare move a muscle, or I’ll blow yer brains out!”

(Gun shot sound FX)

SALLY: Brilliant! But which writer’s techniques did she use?

Homework: Write some adverts for the podcast, using rhetorical techniques: rhetorical questions, positive language, ‘experts say’, and making the product - shampoo? chocolate? a car? - sound cool. Write it as a playscript, and don’t forget to think about sound fx. (You may find it useful to listen to Capital or Virgin before you start, so you can get an idea about how adverts use humour to grab the listener’s attention. Your advert should last thirty seconds or so. Write it as a script

We’ll only have time to use three of the adverts, so make yours as brilliant as you can!