Advocacy Video Series: Part 6 

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