Welcome back to your television serial making guidelines. If you need a recap we'd already seen the fixed forms of necessities like storyline, characters or sets. Now let us proceed to moving ones.
The Story and Dialogue Writers: Having just one single writer is just a risky proposition. You need to ideally have a table of writers, if one doesn't blow out of his/her mind others deliver. The endless storyline needs a similarly endless way to obtain dialogues to keep on the show episode by episode. In a particular scene you must create the maximum possible dialogues and because of this the board of writers would come as a bonus. Should they quarrel over it, that's only natural, maybe you get a new twist-wish idea to include new angles-triangles or why don't you a good hyperbola in the story that may again generate new streams of dialogues. You must keep a wrist watch on viewers too; boring them now and then is okay, but you should never drive them mad. The channel producers, remember?
The Director: When you will be the director you should be the toughest nut to break. Okay it's your baby and naturally you like to be the best choice and friend-philosopher-guide. But in actual practice you should be considered a ruthless dictator taking decisions unilaterally and respecting no body but the channel producers. If a particular character actor is creating problems s/he must get killed in the serial; on the demand of the producers a dead character might have to be brought alive; some people might have to be replaced; ushering in an occasion transition or injecting one and more absurd characters to the serial; and, so on. All these situations demand your decisions only. Kundali Bhagya Today Episode We advise you to keep a couple of episode directors too as may be the case in many soaps. We have good reasons. First, one director is directly identifiable and is just a sitting duck for irate viewers, if any. Second, the endless monotony might be a lot of for you personally and you may lose your sanity. Third, when it comes to channel producers the buck will always stop exclusively at your end only.
The Time Pass: This time pass is from the viewpoint of serial makers, not viewers. Making an endless serial is not at all easy. So you should carry on creating rooms for frequent time pass tactics. You get it done with merry go rounds of dramatic reaction shots parading all of your characters in the hall that may get you over a number of episodes; with dialogues that never cease; by giving extreme shock treatment to a number of characters who lose their power to speak and communicate only through loud music that may last as much as a number of episodes; by bringing in absurd characters and making their stories count; and, by the like.
Conclusion (?): Since every one of these guidelines are enforced relentlessly some normal doctrines like good wins over evil get neutralized. Evildoers in serials carry on doing evil that may include even murder as police authorities are never called in, because entry of police may veer the serial to a logical end. You merely compensate by creating temporary relief measures now and then. Thus, the antagonist becomes the key to the success of endless serials. At the receiving end we can only try get accustomed to it.
So, make your serial in India and have endless fun!
