[PA SAV DO]
--- 1. PLAYERS INVOLVED & TRYING TO ACHIEVE ---
So, it was myself, John and Pete..
John was trying to ________. Pete had been and was hoping to ________. I wanted to ________.
--- 2. SCENE SETTING + ANALOGIES + VISCERAL DESCRIPTORS ---
[ Where Before? | Where Going? | Where Now?]
[Before] We had just finished an exhausting 3 week trip around a boiling Nigeria. It had been as hot as a sauna.
[Going] We were on our way back to the more relaxing & civilized Ghana. It would be like returning home from battle.
[Now] We were winding through the tight dust roads of a chaotic Lagos suburb on the way to the airport. It was like driving through a desert town.
[What Hear? | What See? | What Smell? | What Feel? ]
[Hear] You could hear the revs of motorbikes in the background. And the chatter of the street sellers going from car to car.
[See] As far as the eye could see there were poorly constructed prefab shelters.It was like a concentration camp.
[Smell] There was a pungent smell of rotting meat in the baking sun. As if animals were left to die baking in the midday sun.
[Feel] We all felt quite exhausted from the trip, hot & sweaty from the baking sun but also anxious that we would not make the flight in time.
As I entered, all I could see was____You could hear the___. The smell of ______filled the air. It felt like ______.
--- 3. DEVIATION FROM EXPECTATIONS ---
[Use Descriptive Onomatopoeic Adjectives]
All of a sudden.
There was a crash, smash, screech, croak, thud, clang, buzzing, whizzing, screech, ooze, fizzle, boom, slurp, rustle, chatter, belch, whisper, cheer, boom, bump, bash, crash, twang, whollop, rattle.
Suddenly, _____________.
The out of the blue _______.
Just as we turned the corner ___________.
As the lights came on ___________.
--- 4. OUTCOME ---
In the end __________.
Fortunately, _________.
It turned out that _________.
--- ENGAGE THE LISTENER ---
Yeah? Right?
You know that feeling you get in your stomach when you know __________.
You know that sound you hear when ___________.
Visualise for a moment ______ like a [analogy].
Imagine for a moment how we felt.
Picture the sights before you _______.
Put yourself in that position. What would you do? Well we ______.
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