City University lecturer Dino Mahoney and four young radio actors gave students tips on writing radio drama scripts at a seminar.
Mahoney is an experienced playwright and host of Songbirds, an English teenage drama series broadcast every weekend on RTHK Radio 4, which uses drama to encourage students to improve their English listening skills.
He and the Songbirds actors talked about good and bad radio scripts to boost interest in the Songbirds drama scriptwriting competition.
Mahoney recommends that scripts should not be too explicit.
'Drama shouldn't tell too much too quickly. It shouldn't tell you directly, otherwise it gets boring and you'll lose tension in the script.'
Mahoney told students that their characters' emotions should show through 'without spelling them out'.
