How I Write & Use SCRIPTS for YouTube Videos — Transcript

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1. 0:00so someone in the comments asked me how
2. 0:02I write and use scripts for my YouTube
3. 0:04videos so a super short video today
4. 0:06about scripts now it's nothing special
5. 0:09that I do but I guess that I've
6. 0:11developed my own personal techniques and
7. 0:13tricks first of all I don't use a
8. 0:15teleprompter now there's nothing wrong
9. 0:17with using one of course but I don't and
10. 0:19well I'm used now to recording videos
11. 0:21without the teleprompter but again
12. 0:23nothing wrong with using one that's a
13. 0:25choice you have to make okay and then
14. 0:28the scripts I do write scripts but how
15. 0:30do I use them how do I read them well
16. 0:33when I started my YouTube channel I
17. 0:35wrote a script for every video like
18. 0:37every word every sentence I wrote down
19. 0:39but I never read the script and I also
20. 0:42wrote everything down like I speak in
21. 0:44spoken language if that makes sense so
22. 0:46with all the stop words and the ums and
23. 0:49the uh and everything yeah and I still
24. 0:51do it that way and then I always had my
25. 0:53laptop with the script in front of me I
26. 0:55memorized a sentence or a few sentences
27. 0:57and then I reproduced those sentences
28. 0:59and front of the camera now back then I
29. 1:02reproduced them exactly like I wrote
30. 1:04them down literally exactly the same way
31. 1:07these days usually when I start talking
32. 1:09it comes out a bit different you know
33. 1:12because of the moment and I mean in my
34. 1:15brain
35. 1:15things change I guess but it's still
36. 1:17there it's there right now but there was
37. 1:20one big problem back then with that
38. 1:21technique and that's that you have the
39. 1:23whole script in front of you and you
40. 1:25read and reproduce a few sentences but
41. 1:27then of course you have to read and
42. 1:29reproduce the next part and I don't know
43. 1:32I always felt some kind of pressure
44. 1:34because even though I think it's okay to
45. 1:36have jump Cuts I don't want them to be
46. 1:39too in your face if you know what I mean
47. 1:41and so whenever I started memorizing the
48. 1:44next part I always had to think about
49. 1:46the position of my hands my head where I
50. 1:48was in the frame so that the jump cut
51. 1:50wouldn't be too in your face and it gave
52. 1:52me so much pressure so it wasn't ideal
53. 1:55it worked but not ideal but okay these
54. 1:58days I do it differently I made it a bit
55. 2:00easier on my brain on on the pressure so
56. 2:04first of all I don't write entire
57. 2:05scripts anymore for every video if it's
58. 2:08a I don't know a rant video like last
59. 2:10video then I just write down keywords
60. 2:13the topics the things I want to talk
61. 2:15about I built the content with keywords
62. 2:18and then usually it becomes a more
63. 2:20spontaneous video you know because your
64. 2:23brain does things and well yeah you know
65. 2:25how it goes but if it's a very specific
66. 2:27topic a very technical topic for example
67. 2:30then I still write down every single
68. 2:32sentence in spoken language of course
69. 2:34and that's because yeah I'm not a native
70. 2:37English speaker so those difficult words
71. 2:40technical words they don't come to me
72. 2:42that fast and so I don't want to like
73. 2:44start thinking when I'm recording the
74. 2:46video so I want to write down everything
75. 2:48first before I start recording the video
76. 2:50then it's also already you know in my
77. 2:53head like the difficult words so I write
78. 2:55down every sentence like I did when I
79. 2:57started my channel but and this is the
80. 3:00difference I write everything down with
81. 3:02the b-roll already in mind so when the
82. 3:05script is finished I highlight the parts
83. 3:07where I'm gonna put b-roll usually in
84. 3:09yellow and so yeah when I'm sitting here
85. 3:11the script is right there I can memorize
86. 3:14a part I read what I need to say what I
87. 3:18want to reproduce and like I said most
88. 3:20of the time I don't reproduce it exactly
89. 3:22as I wrote it down but close enough but
90. 3:25now there's none of that pressure
91. 3:26because I know that I can memorize a
92. 3:29small part and then there's going to be
93. 3:30b-roll and you know sometimes I can do
94. 3:33an entire part until the b-roll in one
95. 3:36go no jump Cuts or nothing and then when
96. 3:38there's b-roll you don't see me so it
97. 3:40doesn't matter if there is any jump Cuts
98. 3:42or anything and then next is another
99. 3:43small part until the next b-roll and
100. 3:46that's how I record the video and it
101. 3:49takes away a lot of that pressure
102. 3:50because there's not like an entire blank
103. 3:53white script it's filled with yellow
104. 3:55parts and those yellow Parts they peace
105. 3:59of mind yeah that's how I write and use
106. 4:01scripts these days for my YouTube videos
107. 4:03I hope it helps thank you so much for
108. 4:05watching and see you in the next one