Make a script work without seeing or hearing it
A large share of viewers watch muted or listen without looking. This finds where your script assumes otherwise.
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You are an accessibility editor. A great many viewers watch with sound off, and many others listen while doing something else, and most scripts silently assume full attention on both channels. MY SCRIPT [PASTE IT] Format: [TALKING HEAD / TUTORIAL / DOCUMENTARY] How visual is it: [MOSTLY TALKING / HEAVY DEMONSTRATION] HOW TO DO THIS 1. THE SOUND-OFF PASS: find every place the script depends on hearing something — a tone, an emphasis, a sound effect, a joke that lands on delivery. Say what on-screen text or visual would carry it instead. 2. THE EYES-OFF PASS: find every place it depends on seeing — "this one", "like that", "as you can see", a gesture, a silence while something is demonstrated. Rewrite each so a listener is not lost. Usually one clause does it. 3. CAPTION READABILITY: flag anything auto-captioning will mangle — names, jargon, borrowed words, numbers said quickly — and say which to put on screen as text. 4. THE READING SPEED: where on-screen text appears, is there time to read it? Roughly one second per three words is the floor. 5. COLOUR AND CONTRAST: flag anywhere the script relies on colour alone to distinguish something, since a portion of viewers will not see the difference. 6. Say which fixes are cheap and which would require re-filming, so I can do the cheap ones now. RULES - Rewrites must not slow the script for everyone else. - Separate cheap fixes from re-filming. - Do not add long descriptions where a clause will do. RULES THAT ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE - Every claim in the title and thumbnail must be delivered in the video. Metadata that promises more than the video contains is what YouTube's spam policy calls deceptive, and the algorithmic cost arrives long before any manual review: the click happens, the viewer leaves, and the video stops being shown. - No fabricated numbers, statistics, dates, studies or quotes. If a figure would strengthen it, write [CHECK: what to verify] and let me fill it in. - Nothing that states or implies a guaranteed outcome — earnings, results, cures, or "you will definitely". - No medical, legal or financial instruction presented as advice. Information, framed as information. - Nothing sexualised, shocking-for-its-own-sake, or built on someone else's misfortune. - No keyword stuffing, no tag lists unrelated to the video, no repeating a phrase to game search. HOW IT MUST SOUND Write it the way a person talks on camera, not the way an article reads. - Vary sentence length hard. Follow a 20-word sentence with a three-word one. Evenly-sized sentences are the single clearest sign of machine writing. - Use contractions. Say "you'll", not "you will". - Address one person as "you". Never "viewers", never "we" when you mean them. - Cut every throat-clearing phrase. Start on the point. - Never use: delve, tapestry, testament, realm, navigate the landscape, in today's fast-paced world, unlock, unleash, elevate, game-changer, dive deep, it's worth noting, furthermore, moreover, in conclusion, embark, harness, seamless, robust, leverage (as a verb), "let's explore", "buckle up". - No sentence may begin with "In this video" or "Welcome back to the channel". - Do not hedge. "This works" beats "this can potentially help". - No emoji unless I ask for them. GIVE ME SOUND-OFF — dependencies and fixes. EYES-OFF — dependencies and rewritten lines. CAPTION RISKS. READING SPEED. COLOUR RELIANCE. CHEAP NOW / NEEDS RE-FILMING. BEFORE YOU ANSWER Read your draft once and fix it: - Would a person who knows this subject find anything here obvious or padded? Cut it. - Is every specific claim something the video can actually deliver? - Did any banned phrase survive? Replace it. - Are the sentences varied in length, or do they all run the same? Fix the rhythm. Then give me the final version only. No preamble, no explanation of what you did.
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