CEPD · Module 4 — Scenario, dialogue, and avatar direction
Speaker, stakes, preferred path, mentor or job-aid help, consequence-first wrong paths, and conversational copy.
About 20 min
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Production order: the observable action from the action map; the stakeholder line that pressures the wrong shortcut; three branches, one preferred and two plausible mistakes; then reply text that teaches without sarcasm. Wrong branches should explain the gap (knowledge, environment, judgment), not just say "Incorrect, try again".
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Wrong paths should show what happens at work (an audit flag, an angry customer, a missed SLA) before any celebration or mascot joke. Delight earns a place only when it reinforces the preferred move: a short confirmation after the right close, not fireworks on every click. Copy: short sentences, second person, no lecture paragraphs inside a reply.
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Translated dialogue is the first thing Arabic reviewers reject. Real workplace speech in the Gulf and Egypt uses greetings, softening and indirectness that English scripts leave out: a customer may open with a greeting and a reference to loyalty before the complaint; an employee will rarely say "no" to a senior person in one word. Write the Arabic dialogue from the scenario brief, not from the English lines. Keep the decision and consequence identical, and let the social texture be local. Read it aloud before recording.
04
Write the three branches and replies for your decision. Then write the Arabic version from the scenario brief, not by translating the English lines. Read both aloud.