How to Create a Script for a Video Podcast

Before you start shooting, you want to have a plan. If not a script, at least an outline, so you know what you're aiming for, and you don't waste a lot of time and film. Here's what you want to think about before you start shooting your video podcast.

Things You'll Need

• paper and pen or computer
• bright ideas

Instructions

1. 

   Think about the topic that you have chosen for your podcast, and the format that would be most conducive to sharing that information with your viewers. Is it going to be a reading of news, an interview with subjects, capturing of an event, sketch comedy?

2. 

   If your video podcast is going to be shot like a news broadcast, especially if it's a one person deal, you probably want to separate your outline into sections. People have short attention spans. Intro, a few different topics, and an outro.

3. 

   If you're interviewing people, you want to come up with questions. Be flexible enough so that your interview doesn't come off as unnatural and rigid, but be prepared to take charge and steer the conversation if your subject gets off target.

4. 

   If you're covering an event, a script might not be needed until after you capture the footage, and you go back and look at what you have and determine what the story is. An option you have is recording a voiceover to help you tell your story.

5. Once you're finished planning, practice the script or visualize how you want to shoot it. That way you can hear how it sounds and make any changes if necessary.

Tips & Warnings

• When you write for video broadcast, you want to be concise and direct with your words. Being wordy just makes it harder to say on camera and confuses your audience.

• Even though you want to maintain your own standards, it is important to think about your audience, who you are talking to.