SANDRA AGGREY CHANGES TO SCRIPT #3: ADDITION OF SCENES
HERE I WANTED TO CREATE A CONTRASTING MISE-EN-SCENE AS PREVIOUSLY MY DRAMA HAD BEEN BASED IN A POLICE CELL (apart from the flashback). THEY WERE NOW IN A MORE RELAXED, LESS CONSTRAINED ENVIROMENT. I WANTED TO ENCODE THE SIGN THAT THESE TWO SISTERS HAD IN FACT GROWN CLOSER AS A RESULT OF THEIR HEART TO HEART IN A POLICE CELL WHICH LET A FEW SKELETONS OUT OF THE CLOSET. THEY WERE IN A SENSE GOING BACK TO THEIR YOUNGER DAYS WHERE THEY LIVED TOGETHER. THIS REPRESENT MY THEME OF THE PAST AND ESSENTIALLY RELIVING IT TO MOVE ON WITH THE FUTURE VERY WELL.
• IT IS ALSO NOT A CONVENTIONAL STYLE AND CAN BE DECODED IN MANY WAYS. SOME MAY NOT UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF THE BLURRING BETWEEN THE BOUNDRIES OF THE REAL AND THE FANTASY. • I TRIED TO COMMUNICATE THIS EFFECTIVELY TO MY AUDIENCE BY PLACING LYNETTE’S UTTERANCES AT THE END TO ACT AS A SIGN THAT SHE IS AWARE THAT LOUIE IS DAY-DREAMING AND THAT THE AUDIENCE SHOULD BE ASWELL. • THE LAST LINE ALSO ENCODES A MEANING OF WISHING AND HOPING FOR SOMETHING SO MUCH THAT YOU START TO DRIVE YOURSELF TO INSANITY (e. g. Louie is essentially hallucinating. ) ADDING A FLASHFORWARD/ DREAM SCENE AT THE END OF MY RADIO DRAMA ADDS AN ASPECT OF POSTMORDERNISM AS THE NARRATIVE BECOMES FRAGMENTED AND BROKEN.