Scripting means scrapping. Or maybe not? When it comes to spoken text, this isn’t always the case. In the video below , I’ll give you 3 tips to write better scripts!
Yeah, a builder needs cement, a master craftsman needs glue and a writer needs conjunctions. Words like: ‘and’, ‘so’, ‘because’ and ‘in short’. Even the word ‘but’ can be essential in a voiceover text. And very often you see all those words in the rough draft of a script. But for one reason or another we have the tendency to think: Scripting is scrapping. And we strike all of these easy connection words out. But conjunctions are the glue, as it were, that holds it all nicely together.
You read with your eyes. You listen with your ears. Of course. So, for example, what do you do with bullet points?Yeah, OK. A good voice over actor knows how to read those bullet points in such a way that the listener thinks: ‘Ah! He’s reading bullet points!’ But then at least add the word ‘and’ before mentioning the last bullet point in the list. So that the listener will think and understand: ‘Ah, we’re at the end of the bullet points.’ And the moment where you are starting to wrap up your story – what’s wrong with using the words, ‘so’, ‘thus’, or ‘therefore’?
A bit of rhythm in a text, it’s really nice. Let’s take a look at this big hit: [Lyrics of Set Fire to the Rain by Adele] What would have happened if Adele would have thought: ‘I need to script and scrap’? Or, let’s take a look at this one: [Lyrics of Runaway by Kanye West.] Script and scrap? Hmm. Or how about ‘Hey Jude’? [Lyrics of Hey Jude by the Beatles.] Scripting really isn’t always about scrapping. And keep that in mind, if you’re writing a voiceover text. So, make sure there are connection words, take your listener along by the hand, and make sure you don’t kill the rhythm.
