Broadcast Writing

BROADCAST WRITING

As we know that writing for broadcast it differs from print because our brains process is different. It takes information differently when it comes from TV (Television) or radio. Keep it in mind that the audience has only a chance to understand the story that you are telling.

If we talk about print, in that the readers can linger over the story or they can re-read if the reader does not understand if not clear. And in broadcasting, the readers do not have that chance. They the readers have a brief chance to hear the story and digest it. But, while this does pose some challenges, keep in mind that while writing for broadcast we need to use the language we already know-spoken language. It is true that it does not matter which language you work in. We get tied to our scripts,

e.g.  The written portion of our stories that we forget that these scripts are going to be read aloud. Here in lies the difficulty, but also the simplicity, of broadcast writing. Indeed, you are writing, but you have written for the ears, write simply, the way you speak.

Perhaps the most important thing to remember is to write conversationally, to write the way we speak and to speak while we write but beware of using colloquialism or slang.

Once we have ascertained the focus of our story, we have to decide on that the stories structure. There is a simple four-step process, which is called a grid, can be useful: hook, context, development and wrap.

A hook is the beginning of the story where we use good pictures and good natural sound to attract the attention of the audience and force them to stay tuned; that is where you establish the story’s theme and tone. That the context is the information part of a story on the television it is often not very visually engaging. The context calls for great writing and for you to get into the next section and the development, as quickly as possible. 

It is now that we develop our characters, write less, build tension, explain motivation and provide analysis. When you develop the story we rely heavily on the story’s characters. In the end, we have to wrap the story which we are writing. In that we always to look future, we need to tie up any loose ends it is really important that not to linger too long here and not to explain or interpret morally, we need to just wrapt the story simply.