Writing for the Ear
- Mark Mullens
- Jun 8
- 1 min read
When you write a piece of content, be it a video, a voice over, a documentary narration.
Who are you writing for, a listener or a reader?
What I mean is, a lot of content out there is not actually written to be spoken out loud.
A lot of of it is almost written like an academic piece of paper. It provides a lot of detail, but it doesn't give the listener space to take that information in.
Take for example of documentary. If the visuals in that documentary, tell you a lot already, does it need to be in the script?
When explaining something quite complicated, is it reasonable for every second of the video to be full of dialogue?
Maybe we can give the audience a bit of room?
This is one of the problems I do find in a lot of of the scripts that I received, particularly when it's been translated.
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