Scripts and Scripting
Faculty often work from an outline or a script, depending on a variety of factors, including how detailed the video’s content is and how comfortable that person is in front of a camera. If you do decide to work from a script, we can set up a teleprompter for you to read from during the recording.
For script format, we typically use a two-column AV script like the one below. You can copy/paste this script into a Word document or we can provide it to you as a Word document.
Title:
| Writer: | Presenter: |
| Estimated time (min:sec): | Status: |
| Version Date: | Revision by: |
Production notes:
| Scene | Visuals | Audio |
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You’ll see that there’s a column for visuals (what your viewer will see) and one for audio (what your viewer/listener will hear). We usually advise that faculty start with writing a thorough audio portion, leaving the visual portion to be developed later in consultation with video production staff.
Scripts typically go through a couple of drafts with faculty receiving feedback from video production staff if desired.