Understanding Radio Scripts and Formats
Translated by
ScribdTranslationsUnderstanding Radio Scripts and Formats
Translated by
ScribdTranslationsTHE SCRIPT
Scripts are those texts that express all the details from literary aspects to technical ones.
The script contains the instructions that the technical operator and the announcers must follow.
The script, which is simply a framework of ideas, where data or figures that one does not want to forget are noted.
The script that only gives us a guideline to speak based on a scheme.
THE SCRIPT
The script is a complete text that includes all the words that will be communicated.
The script will be read
The script is the textual structure of a radio program, detailing in writing the entire radio program, everything that is going to
to say the announcer, the music that will be played, the sound effects that will be inserted and the precise moment when it
You are going to hear everything.
In what radio formats are scripts used?
In a report, press releases are written and read. We are not going to be improvising the information.
Editorials are also commonly written to ensure that the broadcaster's opinion is clearly stated.
Radioplays and radio soap operas are made with scripts.
Reports and radio clips are also recorded with scripts.
The spots, whether commercial or educational, are made with scripts.
What formats are used for scripts?
The animation of the programs is always done spontaneously, never with scripts.
Likewise, radio scripts are conducted with a script; not all words need to be written.
The musical and sports programs are worked on with scripts.
Also sociodramas and other simple dramatizations.
For the interviews, a questionnaire is prepared, but it is never read in front of the interviewee.
It serves as a question script.
The talks are also done with a script, not with a manuscript.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SCRIPT AND LIBRETTO
Scripts are those texts intended for cinema, television, and comics.
The librettos are those texts oriented to musical works or to oratories.
The script is a framework of ideas, narrative structure, and technical details.
The script is usually used in radio or television because it outlines the commercial breaks and the duration of the
segments.
The scripts establish the exterior and interior locations, the shots, the details of the scenery and
musical accompaniment.
The script is a scheme of ideas where information and figures that we do not want to forget are noted.
The script has a more narrative and technical structure.
The script is a complete text that gathers all the words I am going to communicate.
The script is read.
The script was used in radionovels and radio plays.
The script is commonly used in radio because it includes commercial breaks and the duration of the segments.
WHEN IS THE SCRIPT USED?
It is used in a computer.
In radio dramas or radio plays.
In reports.
In commercial and educational spots.
WHEN IS THE DASH USED?
The musical and sports programs.
The talks.
In the interviews.
In the programs that are done spontaneously.
JOURNALISTIC SCRIPT
MUSICAL SCRIPT
JOURNALISTIC SCRIPT
Script 1
Community Radio 99.4 FM
Fade in – Cortnilla (1 min.)
RODRIGO GARCÍA: Hello, how are you? Good morning. This is the morning news program of Community Radio 99.4 broadcasting.
Greetings from Mexico City. Rodrigo García greets you.
CARMEN SÁNCHEZ: Good morning. Today is Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Welcome to the news, this is Carmen greeting you.
Sánchez. We begin.
Curtain (30 sec.)
CARMEN SÁNCHEZ: We begin with the news that has captured attention in recent days. The government of the
The United States has reported that it has identified a suspected perpetrator of the terrorist attacks.
last Monday during the Boston marathon. The president of that nation, Barack Obama, announced that the FBI
will continue with the investigations and that in the coming days the person who probably had will be arrested
some participation in these acts.
RODRIGO GARCÍA: In more international news, the elected president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that he will not
will yield to the opposition protests, which caused the death of seven people. Currently, the country
South America is going through a serious political crisis resulting from the tight elections that declared a winner, with
a narrow margin of difference, to Maduro.
Cut music / Voice over (30 sec.)
Commercial court
CARMEN SÁNCHEZ: Let's go to a commercial break. What you are hearing now is the new album by the British band.
Depeche Mode Delta Machine. Stay with us. We'll be back shortly.
Cut
MUSICAL LIBRETTO
Libretto 2
Loc1: Hello!, hello! Welcome to a new program.
Loc1: Today we have a special topic for those listeners who love 80s music... Throughout the entire
The program can send us their recommendations through messages and we will be broadcasting them.
So we start right away with text messaging. I take this opportunity to send greetings to all my friends who
they are in tune.