| Stage
1 Winners |
| There are 8 winners in the 13 rounds of the Stage-1 The Muck Family Radio Drama Script-writing Competition. They will participate in the Stage-2 Hong Kong is Cool Radio Drama Competition. |
| Details about the 8 winners and their creative radio drama scripts |
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Round 1: Muck Nui & her first party
Winner: None |
Round 2: Muck Nam & his school outing
Winner: None |
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Round 3: Muck Nam can't stop talking
Winner: None |
Round 4: Muck Nui is talented
Winner: None |
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Round 5: Muck Mama is in charge
Winner: None |
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Round 6: Muck Nui's dumb boyfriend
Winner:
Victoria Cheung (F.3 Kei Chi Secondary School) created Muck Nui who gets to have her dream guy to be her first boyfriend, except that he just wants her to help him catch the eyes of another girl. Muck Nui gives him the help he needs, and moves on to dream about her next boyfriend. The drama, written in very lively language, briskly unfolds in five short scenes that present a relatively big crowd of eight characters. |
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Round 7: Muck Papa is in trouble
Winner: None |
Round 8: Being a "high muckamuck"
Winners:
Sincere Kwok (F.3 St Catherine's School for Girls) created Muck Nam & Muck Nui who compete against each other in a Persons of Influence election at school. Muck Nam wants very much to win, and so she goes around trying to impress everyone with her intelligence, elegant fashions and confident promises. Muck Nui continues to help everyone, just as she has always done. The eight brief scenes written in rather solid English present five characters in several separate encounters that tell moral lessons on friendship, co-operation, trust & respect among young people.Elle Leung (F.2 St Rose of Lima's College) created an intriguing scheme in which form-two students plot against one another in a President of the Music Club election. In order to beat the others, the candidates try to please their schoolmates by singing, twisting their bodies, giving free CDs, and offering kisses & dates to those who vote for them. The eight scenes, written in a standard of English rarely found among school students, present eight characters embroiled in rather complex relationships acting out the tension & excitement in election campaigning. |
Round 9: Bucking the trends
Winner: None |
Round 10: Acts of luck
Winners:
Charlotte Kwok (F.2 St Catherine's School for Girls) created "Lucky Star" Muck Nui who, spurred on by a fortune-teller who tells her that luck is what she gets in life, decides to indulge in her strokes of luck that never cease. Then she changes her mind when mum tells her there are more valuable things in life. The five scenes written in good English present six characters in this imaginary drama that tells a straightforward moral lesson.Cassandra Choi (F.4 St Paul's Convent School) created Muck Nui whose life is falling apart, and who blames her fate for all the unhappy things in her life. Frustrated by an "unhelpful" fortune-teller's ambiguous advice, she decides to help herself, be the master of her own fate, and reach out to change the unhappy things in her list of misfortunes. Mum & Dad also decide to grow out of their silly fights and drop their foolish divorce plan. This highly impressive drama presents ten characters in ten coherent scenes written in equally impressive English. |
Round 11: Mucking up the Parents' Day
Winner:
Yvonne Wong (F.3 St Rose of Lima's College) created John & Nick who ace all the subjects at school, and who cannot stop playing practical jokes on other people. Dad thinks boys are boys, and it's okay for them to have fun. Mum gets upset and bursts into anger when the boys go mischievous. Come Parents' Day at school, mum wants the boys to sit still in their chairs while she talks with the teacher about their misbehaviour. Bored, the boys are determined to muck it up. The simple yet interesting plot presents seven characters in various lively conversations that show keen observation on children-parents & wife-husband interaction. |
Round 12: Mucking about in a murky world
Winner:
Michelle Mai (F.2 St Rose of Lima's College) re-created Miranda, Lizzie & Gordo looking for fun on a three-day trip to Banjirow to watch turtles lay eggs on the beach at night, where Lizzie finds herself in sticky, murky mess that stinks like rotten durian. The simple plot presented in good English makes the drama easy to follow. |
Round 13: The yuckiest home video show
Winner:
Vivian Lai (F.3 St Rose of Lima's College) recreated The Truman Show by creating Anthony who decides to have an enjoyable time peeping at his family members through a video camera hidden behind a teddy bear's eyes, and who ends up getting a yucky, stomach-turning experience. This entertaining drama written in good conversational English presents five characters in two scenes. |
