How do you script a review?

[WolfWraith]

How do you properly script a review? I want to improve on that kind of thing in terms of layout and where to take breaks in speech etc... more than anything. I take my reviews VERY seriously, there's no fun and games when it comes to reviewing, despite reviewing video games.

Writing the review itself is pretty p**s easy for me now but my current problem that I've noticed is if I script the review my way, which is basically just writing up a short version of a full review, it can end up fairly monotone because I'm just reading off a review, it's just paragraph after paragraph. The thing is I always try to ensure I cover all the right points & of a game and this can result in alot of writing, I've had full versions of my reviews that hit up to 9 pages long. When it comes to doing a video it has to be as short as possible too, I try to keep them around 15-20mins but if necessary I can go 30-40mins.

If I use dot points or shorter sentences to keep everything on 1 page, I end up being less monotone and more lively, but there's less struture and the problem is, I forget, miss points or facts and I can even rant which becomes a very big problem when you're trying to maintain a level of professionalism with a review. Even when doing the normal way I can forget points.

I always follow a specific structure but I need a better way that I can use that structure with a proper a script so that I don't end up just reading paragraphs of text.

 

[PressRecord]

There is a professional way to script anything. However, there is no proper way when it comes to YouTube. it is simply what works best for you. Personally I like to make a detailed outline. Know exactly where I want to take the video. And then go through it and let my personality fill in the gaps. It makes it much more believable and seems professional. If you are reading straight from a script it may seem a bit forced and if you just wing it it may seem sloppy.

However this is entirely up to the person making the video. Some may do awful with a script some might need a script entirely. Try it a few ways and see what works best for you because in the end that's what matters.

 

[WolfWraith]

There is a professional way to script anything. However, there is no proper way when it comes to YouTube. it is simply what works best for you. Personally I like to make a detailed outline. Know exactly where I want to take the video. And then go through it and let my personality fill in the gaps. It makes it much more believable and seems professional. If you are reading straight from a script it may seem a bit forced and if you just wing it it may seem sloppy.

However this is entirely up to the person making the video. Some may do awful with a script some might need a script entirely. Try it a few ways and see what works best for you because in the end that's what matters.

Yeah, I'm trying to find that right balance between something that's well structured but is short so that I can expand on it in my own way and add my own personality to it. But still I rant xD I don't want things to be too short or too long but I don't want to miss anything that's needed as well. I did a preview sort of on the fly once, it had way more life to it but I did forget a few points I was meant to mention and it was the 2nd or 3rd time I recorded it, I decided to just put it in as text, fortunately the points weren't THAT important but I needed them in for people who wanted to watch it to make a decision if they wanted to buy it or not. My other issue is the break part. Sometimes I just keep going and can get flustered and a tiny bit burnt out. I want to know how the guys at GameSpot do it lol