Eguria

THE ESSENTIALS OF SCRIPT WRITING If your characters don’t come alive in your script there is no way they will come alive on the stage or on the screen. In our daily lives, we come across people some are mere acquaintances while others are good friends. We are most likely to make surprise judgments of an acquaintance based on their appearance and first impressions but we are not likely to go beyond that. You may never have deep information as you may not know them completely. But a friend you know their background, likes or dislikes, their taste, lifestyle and a host of others. This is exactly how characterization works; when you write you must ensure that your central character is someone they know back at home and in some cases their enemies. If this must happen you as a writer must first get to know your character very well because if you don’t know your character they will not appear rather they will appear flat. The next question is how well do you know your character ? Y...

WHAT IS CREATIVE WRITING?   BY  >EGURIASE S. M. OKAKA When you write for stage, television, or film, you operate a craft that goes beyond the ordinary. As a point of fact, it is a craft that transcends itself to become an art.   An art itself comes from genius and powerful inspiration. We probably can learn the craft because it is quite unlike that a real work of art can come from someone who hasn’t first learned the craft. ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF CREATIVE WRITING You need a go od idea but that idea must have a form. This is the plot. The way you organize the events that form your story is largely driven by the structure of the plot. The foundation of all forms of drama is the three-act structure. It is quite true that this observation was initially and finally stated by Aristotle in his poetics, today this old pattern is still applied to play, films, and television screens.  The three Act structure is the basis on which all plays are written. It provides the framewor...

COMMUNICATION ART 11 BY EGURIASE S. M . OKAKA Any communication disseminated in this world or beyond must have a process or channels through which the information gets to us. This process is the medium we intend to consider. The ability to get a message or information transmitted to an heterogeneous audience brings completeness in such process. This is where we can say of the Mass Media as a vivid channel in getting messages across to a large number of people at the same time.   We can say of communication as the dissemination of information from person to person or from place to place as the cast may be. This can only reach a few people, it can only be better still when a disseminated information can reached a mass audience; that is when we employ the use of mass media to get to a large number of people at the same time and place as the case may be. Therefore, we can refer to Mass Communication as that information or message sent via a mass medium like radio and telev...

WEDLOCK OF THE GODS BY ZULU SOFOLU ANALYSIS BY EGURIASE S. M. OKAKA Ogwoma, the widow has been forced by her parents to marry Adigwu because they needed money from her bride wealth to cure their son who was very sick. Ogwoma the victim of circumstance had nothing but hatred for Adigwu. She was very much in love with Uloko whom she could not marry because he did not have the money his parents needed. Fortunately for her the loathed husband died and she considers herself freed from whatever bands them together. Rather than complete the period of mourning and be inherited by her husband’s brother in the tradition of levitation, she became pregnant by her lover who eternally holds her heart. Taboos are broken, her parental families are disgraced and her mother-in-law was filled with a sense of vengeance for her son who she believed was intentionally killed so that both lovers might have their way.   The play reveals Odibei searching seriously for the medicine Ogwoma used ...