From the course: Script Writing for Nonfiction Video
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How goal and style connect
From the course: Script Writing for Nonfiction Video
How goal and style connect
- Your goal and your style are interconnected when you're talking about a nonfiction production. So, for example, you might use a lot of archival images, if you want to evoke nostalgia with your script. Or maybe you're going to script the show in a very cutty style because you want to create a lot of excitement, so you're going to build in a lot of scene changes and shot changes. Or maybe you're going to use animation to describe some complicated process or to quickly engage people with a topic that otherwise might not be that exciting. Perhaps you're going to script a re-enactment because it's going to be important for the audience members to kind of visualize themselves doing something. Or, maybe, it's an interview-driven production. And so now you have to make some stylistic choices in your script writing about how these interviews are going to be conducted. Are they going to be seated interviews? Are they going to be in a comfortable living room setting? Are they going to be a…
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