Although Douyin vlog short videos are only 60s in 60s, every shot in excellent short videos has been carefully designed. Just like a director wants to make a movie, every shot is designed. For lens design, lens scripts are used.
Someone may ask, is it necessary to write scripts for a short video that costs more than ten seconds? What exactly is a script? What is its function?
Actually, this is not the case. If you truly master the writing skills of short video scripts, you will find that the shooting and production of short videos are so simple. Today we will talk about how to write a Douyin vlog short video script, what is the method, and script case sharing
? ? What is a script?
Simply put, scripts are the basis for us to shoot videos. All the people involved in video shooting and editing, including photographers, actors, costumes and props preparations, editors, etc., all their actions and actions are subject to scripts.
When time, place, what appears in the picture, how should the lens be used, what the scenery is like, and the preparation of costumes and makeup are all created based on scripts.
It can be said that the greatest function of scripts is to arrange what everyone needs to do in advance. A form will make you twice the result with half the effort. In short, scripts serve efficiency and results.
If there is no script as the basis for video shooting and editing, you will find that while you are shooting, you will suddenly find that the scene is wrong, and you can only spend a lot of time to search again temporarily; then the props are not complete, and the actors do not know how to act. After the filming, the editor was even more confused and did not know what ideas to use to edit.
After such trouble, the whole film was basically scrapped.
Of course, the script itself is actually a very complex and professional thing. For short video shooting, this is enough to understand it. If you need to have a deeper understanding of video scripts, it is recommended to find some books to learn.
? ? What is the function of a script?
For short videos, scripts have two main functions:
1. Improve video shooting efficiency
This has actually been mentioned before. The script is actually the outline and framework of shooting short videos.
With this outline and framework, it is equivalent to providing process guidance for subsequent shooting, editing, prop preparation, etc.
Just like when we write articles, when we are reading, the teacher will recommend that we make an outline before writing articles, and then expand our creation based on the outline. This way of writing is clearer and faster.
2. Improve the quality of video shooting
Although most of our short videos selling goods are around 15 seconds, the longest will not exceed 30 seconds.
However, if you want high basic traffic and high conversion rate, you must carefully craft the details that appear in each video. It includes scene types, scene layout, actor costumes and trajectory preparation, line design, expressions; music coordination, final editing effect presentation, etc. These all need to be presented by scripts.
? ? Today I will share it from the two aspects of pre-preparation of scripts and script design methods.
? ? Preparation of scripts
Before writing your short video shooting script, you need to determine the overall content ideas and process of your short video. It mainly includes the following aspects:
1. Shooting positioning
In the early stage of shooting, we need to position the expression form of the content, such as if you want to make short videos, whether it is food production, clothing outfits or small plots.
2. Shoot the subject
Theme is defined by the content. For example, in the clothing dress series, taking a monochrome combination of a dress, this is the specific shooting theme.
3. Shooting time
There are two purposes for determining the shooting time. One is to agree on the time with the photographer in advance, otherwise it will affect the shooting progress. The other is to determine the shooting time and make a landable shooting plan; there will be no problem of dragging.
4. Shooting location
The shooting location is very important. Is it an indoor or outdoor scene to shoot? For example, wild food should be chosen in places with green mountains and clear waters, and indoor scenes should be chosen as an ordinary family kitchen or an open kitchen. These need to be determined in advance.
5. Photographing reference
Sometimes there are differences in the shooting effect we want and the final effect. We can find similar samples to communicate with photographers, and which scenes and lens expressions are what you want; photographers can produce content according to your needs.
6. Background BGM
BGM is a necessary component for short video shooting, and it is very important to choose the right music in conjunction with the scene.
For example, when shooting handsome men and beautiful internet celebrities, you should choose popular and hip-hop fast-paced music, and when shooting Chinese style, you should choose beautiful vlog music with slower rhythm.
When shooting sports-style videos, you must choose rhythm music with clear rhythm drum beats. When shooting parenting and family dramas, you can choose light music and warm music. This requires a lot of accumulation and learning how others choose BGM.
? ? Script production method:
In the shooting script, we need to carefully design each shot. Today, we mainly use the following steps:
1. The lens difference
2. Content
3. Lines
4. Duration
5. Move the mirror
6. Props
6 elements are explained.
1. The lens difference
When shooting, which of them should be used to use vision, panoramic, medium, close-up, and close-up?
Take the character shooting for example. The vision is to shoot the entire person and the environment in the picture, often used to show the time, environment, scale and atmosphere of the event. For example, some war scenes.
A panoramic view is a little closer than a long view, displaying the entire body of the character in the picture, and is used to express the character’s whole body movements or the relationship between the characters.
Medium shot refers to the part from the knee to the top of the head of the shooting task. It not only allows the audience to see the character’s expressions clearly, but also helps to show the character’s physical movements.
Close-up shots are the parts from above the character’s chest to the head, which is very conducive to expressing the character’s face or other departments’ expressions and expressions. Even our subtle movements.
Close-up is to take pictures of the characters’ eyes, nose, mouth, fingers, toes, etc., which is suitable for expressing details that need to be highlighted.
2. Content
The content is to present what you want to express through various scenarios. Specifically speaking, it is to split the script and split the content into each shot.
3. Lines
The lines are prepared for camera expression and play the finishing touch. In this place, I want to tell you that in 60s short videos, don’t let the text exceed 180 words, otherwise it will sound particularly tiring.
4. Duration
Duration refers to the duration of a single shot, marked clearly in advance, so that we can find the key points when editing and increase the efficiency of editing.
5. Move the mirror
Moving the mirror refers to the way the lens moves. From near to far, translational propulsion and rotational propulsion are all possible. Let me explain to you some of the common mirror-moving techniques used in short video shooting:
(1) Push forward and pull back
It refers to moving the lens at a constant speed close or away from the subject, and pushing the lens forward is to gradually move the lens from far to near, so that the scene can gradually move from far, medium to close, or even close-up. This method of moving the lens can easily highlight the subject and can gradually concentrate the viewer’s vision.
(2) Surrounding the mirror
When shooting a surround lens, you need to keep the camera position unchanged. By rotating and moving the stabilizer with the subject as the center, the surround lens is like a patrol perspective, which can highlight the subject and render emotions, making the entire picture more intense.
(3) Low-angle mirror
The low-angle mirror is used to simulate the pet’s perspective, so that the lens can shoot at a low angle or even close to the ground. The closer to the ground, the stronger the space it presents.
Low-angle shooting can also focus more on a certain part. The most common one is walking on the legs. This type of lens is tried and tested in many scenes!
In fact, there are many ways to use the mirror. When you can skillfully use the stabilizer, you can add other elements to the basic mirror movement to make the lens look cooler and more dynamic.
6. Props
There are many ways to choose from, and there are many ways to play, but it should be noted that the finishing touch of props is not to add to the sarcasm. Don’t let it steal the subject’s style.
Script Case Sharing
Some multi-scene videos also require the shooting address and script paradigm, which is roughly like this:
