Writing a Radio-Play

I never realized how difficult it is to write I radio-play.

I am a very visual person, and I imagine scenes in my head only in clips or pictures. I am struggling because I can only use sounds to portray my story.

Our radio-play (mine and Melanie's) was inspired by the music video Creep by Radiohead (it's a classic). In this music video, a woman is listening to music at music machine and Johnny Depp starts listening to the same song beside her. It is evident that she immediately falls in love with him. She spends most of the music video staring at him. When he leaves the music machine, she struggles with herself for a moment and then decides to run after him. When she finally catches up, she doesn't know what to say and there is a really awkward moment between them. The music video ends with her leaving the music store- alone.

We liked the idea of missed opportunities and regret. The internal conflict the woman had was also quite interesting. She simply could not get over her own embarrassment or insecurity to speak with this man whom she feels she has a strong connection to.

The same conflict and themes are brought into our radio-play, yet I didn't make the simple realization  until much later that the music video is purely visual, and some of the parts I really liked simply cannot be translated orally. I feel that this project will improve my writing, and help me become not only a visual person, but an auditory one as well.