One question I haven't been asked, but am gonna answer anyways, goes as follows:
"How do you write your videos?"
Well, it's a long process, so instead of detailing the whole thing, I'll outline rough steps for a recent vid and show off a representative slice!
I have an upcoming video which details most everything I thought it might be important to cover on Scriptor 2.0, from player-focused features to details useful for addon development. The script-making process pretty much boils down to the following:
- Bang out a bulleted list of everything I want to cover. This is a first draft and will suck. This sucking is important.
- Take at least 2-3 days of thinking about things I want to add to that list and add them to a different list. It's important that this is somewhere other than the original document.
- Add all the stuff I thought about .
- Write a version of the narration for each section on the list.
- Copy the document and cut out the bullets.
- Revise
You can see an example of the document after step 4 here. I think it's very important for the first few steps that I make something, it doesn't have to be good, and then step away from it. That means that I'm not starting something new and that I have time to think about my frustrations with it, which in my experience makes the end product a lot better. Means I have the chance to get upset about things, and I can take sandpaper to those edges.
That being said, that last step is also doing some heavy lifting. Here, I'm basically copy editing for myself, doing corrections, adding sources and credits where necessary, putting in stage directions and bits that are important for the video to work, stuff like that. Ideally, after this step, the amount of words I'm actually reading aloud is about half to ⅔rds what I initially wrote, sans bullets.
That being said, that's pretty much it!
This might not have been the most engaging blog entry, but I wanted to write something that wasn't the script so I could go back and do steps 5/6 with a fresh mind and pair of eyes.