Advocacy Video Series: Part 6

Join Allexa from Rooted in Rights in this series! Learn how to script, film, edit, and make accessible your own short advocacy video.
Part 6 explores the script template.
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Transcript of "Advocacy Video Series Part 6" by Rooted in Rights
Welcome to Part 6 where we're
diving into the script template!
So behind me is a very
basic script template
that we use at
Rooted in Rights.
It has three columns.
The first one is
labeled "Hosting."
The second one is labeled
"Shot/B-Roll/Graphics/Photos."
And the third column is labeled
"Audio Description and Narration."
And the rows are just
numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
So, we use this template
for after we've brainstormed
those four questions
we went over in
the last session.
So you've answered
the questions of,
"Who are you?"
"What happened?"
"What did you need?"
And "What are you asking for now?"
You've expanded or
contracted that script,
added more details,
honed it to where
you want it to be,
and now our suggestion
would be to put it
in the script template
in the "hosting" column.
Now, there's no rule in video
that says that you have to host
your video directly to camera,
but, for the
purposes of this training
and a self- advocacy video,
we find it really useful to
tell your own story
directly to the camera.
And, the bulk of your script is
going to be this "hosting" piece.
What you are
going to say
to the camera about
your experience.
We find it helpful, um,
with these rows
that are numbered
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
to sort of break up that
hosting beat by beat.
That might be
sentence by sentence.
It might be idea by idea.
But, it's really just
to break it down
so that when you're
filming you can go
beat by beat and keep
track of where you are.
And then as we move over
into the other columns,
the "Shot/ B-Roll" column
and the "Audio Description
and Narration" columns
we know where to match those
things up with your hosting script.
So for the second column,
"Shot/B-Roll/Graphics/Photos,"
this is where you can
start thinking about,
visually, how you want
your video to look.
So, if you're hosting to
camera, that's a visual.
If you want photos, pictures
from previous times in your life,
if you want video
illustrating some of the issues
that you're talking about,
that's all going to go in
the second "B-Roll" column.
So what we invite
people to do is,
once you've got your script, your
hosting, what you want to say,
move on to thinking about
what you want it to look like
and start writing out what that
vision is in the second column.
So if you know the first shot's
going to be hosting to camera,
you can just write that in.
Um, in the next part
I'm going to go over
some shot suggestions
for different kinds of shots you
can write in the second column.
For any script templates
or an example script
check out the link in our bio.
End of Transcript