Setup --> development --> climax --> resolution

My establishing scene is going to set in the living room of the two main characters in my play (the couple), straight away this recognises for the listeners who my two main characters are so they can become familiar with them. I want it to be of an evening time and have the couple sitting together on the living room her drinking a glass of wine and him drinking a can of beer. You can hear eastenders on in the background therefore you know that it is night time. They are casually talking about things such as work, and he mentions something about being scared. She then mentions about he cant talk about scared after he scared the living daylights out of her on their wedding day.

TO CHANGE THE SCENE I WILL NEED A TRANSITION TO GO HERE THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE CHANGE, MAYBE A FADE OR A LONGER PAUSE.

The development of the story is going to be the night before the wedding and i want the scenes to keep flicking between eachother of what the man and the woman are doing. The woman is going to be in a hotel room with her bridesmaids music playing in the background and them all laughing and gossiping and having fun. On the other hand the men have been typical men and are going out on the town to get drunk, they will  be in a bar messing about and joking with eachother. I want the scenes to flick between eachother really fast with no pauses so the audience are kept interested and it speeds the story line up a little bit.

The climax is going to be when the girls in the hotel get a phone call from the boys, the phone call is off the husband of the head bridesmaid and he tells them that he cant find the groom, he said he'd gone the toilet and he'd gone missing however they are all going to stay up all night until they find him so they assured the girls not to worry as it'll be all sorted for the big day. However the boys cant find him and they give up searching in hope that he will turn up in the morning and everything will be fine. Meanwhile, morning appears and there is still no hope as he hasnt turned up to the boys hotel, the boys ring the girls however they try and keep it from the bride because they dont want her to worry. The boys tell the girls once again it'll be fine they know he will turn up.

The resolution is going to be seconds before they boys are about to leave to have once final search he slumbers through the door still in his clothes from last night, he tells them that he ended up sleeping on a park bench because he couldnt even remember the hotel name for someone to give him directions. They all joke about saying that they thought he werent going to turn up etc, they all travel to the wedding and as the groom comes through the door the church offers a sign of relief. The bride enters after and she is so relieved to see him standing at the front of the altar. We then get little snipets of the wedding untill they are officially married.

THE SAME TRANSITION THAT WAS USED AT THE START WILL BE USED HERE TO SIGNIFY THAT ITS GOING BACK IN TO THE PRESENT AND THAT THEY ARE BACK IN THE SAME SCENERY.

In ending scene i want it to end with eastenders finishing in the background to show a passage of time. They joke about, the man saying that it was all put on to scare her and that he was always going to turn up at the wedding.

Further Reseach into 'I Do?'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxdYdn7rJuI

This link to youtube is a link to a lee evans clips talking about 'wifes'. This is useful because it shows what typical woman are like from a mans point of view and humourous things that they do.

Character Building for 'I Do?'

In my radio play there are two main obvious characters which are a couple, these two are going to dominate the whole play and we will have a great bond between the two.

ManName: Joe Grimshaw
Age: 28
Job: worked as a builder since he was 17years old. Trained at a college when he left school and now is a fully trained builder and works for a big company.
Location: Kings norton, Birmingham
Looks: Joe is around 6ft tall and he is big build and muscly due to him being a builder. He has brown hair and has tanned skin, hes rough and ready looking and has stubble on his face.
Personality: Joe is a loud and bubbly person and seems to be a bit of a joker especially when around his friends. He likes to wind up his wife alot of the time and is just a typical man as he likes to go down to the pub to play pool and have a few beers with his mates.
Hobbies: Attends the gym a few times a week to keep fit.

Woman
name: Louise Grimshaw
age: 25
Job: Trained as a hairdresser at the age of 19 and has a job in a salon in Harborne.
Location: Kings Norton, Birmingham
Looks: Louise is around 5'5 and she is quite a petite build. She has blonde hair and blue eyes and is a pretty girl. She is quite faired skinned and has to wear glasses for reading.
Personality: Louise is a fun girl to be around, she is very down to earth and friendly. She is strong minded and can be serious and fun when she needs to be.
Hobbies: She often goes swimming with her mates and a social hobbie she has is going to resturants and trying out differnt cuisines.

Further Reseach into 'I Do?'

The alphabet of Love - radio playI liked the way that this radio play started in the past tense, in my play i want to go back into the past therefore this was something good to look at of how it is performed.
The couple show lots of connections between them both as they are suffering a terrible time. It shows her committing to what he wants to do before he passes away. This is the kind of connection that i want to get between my two characters. Even though couples may have that humourous arguementative side between them they will always have a bond that connects them because they love eachother. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fsylj

Further Research into 'I Do?'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1J80NrIHF8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjkUkqTUHNc

Above are two different links to adverts on the TV, these adverts show humour between men and woman. It shows what a typical man and woman are like, which is what i want to get across in my play.

Further Reseach into 'I Do?'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_comedy

The link above is to wikipedia and it allows me to explore the different types of comedy on radio and also for me to get to grips with the codes and conventions that you must stick to when performing comedy via the radio

Research for final idea: 'I Do?'

I decided to choose idea 5 as my final idea because i really liked the idea of working within the genre of comedy and i think that i will have lots to explore.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/safetycatch.shtml
Safety catch is a radio play shown of radio 4. After listening to it i decided to use this as part of my research because they humour in it between the man and woman was comical and also it contained a 'problem' within the story line which is something i want to do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outnumbered
Outnumbered is a fantastic sitcom to look at because theres such classic humour between the whole family. They also tend to have little problems arise usually by the children which then causes humourous conflict between the parents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Family
My family is another sitcom which like outnumbered contains a family that have humour go on among them.

http://www.suite101.com/content/new-jimmy-mcgovern-series-accused-to-be-shown-on-bbc-one-a305973
This programme shows a man and woman, the man is having problems and his girlfriend is moaning at him which creates humour between them.
http://www.corrie.net/profiles/characters/duckworth_jack.html
The link above is to a profile about jack and vera duckworth in coronation street. Over the many years they had been on coronation street they offered such a good relationship between the two. They have been through ups and downs but still show a great relationship. I love the way that Jack is always getting into trouble and Vera the strong woman she is always gives him a smack and tells him off.

http://www.oregoncounseling.org/ArticlesPapers/Documents/DifferencesMenWomen.htm
This website i found enabled me to get a understanding on the differences between men and woman. The main thing that stood out to me was the different way men and woman react to things, woman are more worried in sitations whereas men can stay more calm.