This will be the most important, and most lengthy part of your pre-production process. You'll want to take your outline and turn it into a full script, complete with every word you plan to speak from beginning to end of your entire video. Be sure to think through every option to your story and write it down. This document will guide your production - the better you plan ahead here, the better chance you have to make your production a success. Make your script in a basic text editor, or, you can use an application like Final Draft.
Boxwrench Sample Script (download PDF)
Description: This is an example of a chapter taken from the Basic Engine Building project.
It is one complete chapter that has a choice point in the middle.
An overview of a process is explained by two male voices.
Project wide, there is; one voice/personality for theory, and a different personality/voice for procedures) Theory is further backed up by graphics and animations between actual video footage of procedures.
In this chapter, when the narrator changes to female, a choice is given to the viewer depending on what parts they may or may not have at their disposal.
After the choice ends the video will continually loop until an option is selected or the "repeat" button is clicked.
Based on the choice made, the appropriate clip is shown.
In the script, it's as easy as writing one choice after the other.
Just consider each choice self contained from a grammatical and storytelling viewpoint and label them well. Each choice should flow nicely back into the follow up or continuing clip which they will both automatically connect to after either choice is done playing.
If the clip or sections are supposed to end during a choice, write the complete ending in each of the subsequent choices of your script, even when it feels redundant to do so.
School, Level 1 DVD: Full Script (download now - 1.8MB)
Description: This is the full script that School used to shoot the Level 1 DVD.
Pros: School was able to carefully plan out the entire DVD. This helps with Storyboarding, Editing, Production planning, and even in the Authoring to DVD stages.
Cons: A lot of what was originally written didn't quite work when it actually came to production. We still had to ad lib quite a bit. Also, writing the script took a really long time, which meant that the production was more costly.
Either way, this is a good example of how School completed the Level 1 DVD.
