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Short-form Scripter

A complete vertical-video script, hook to ask, timed under 35 seconds, with a shot note on every beat so filming day has no guesswork.

£19Get notifiedCore: extracted from the authors' production workflow.

Reads your operating system before it starts. Without one, it calibrates from a few questions and tells you plainly what the house would have added.

The task

You are filming tomorrow and need more than an opener: the whole arc, what to say, what to show, and the one ask at the end.

By hand

You write it in the notes app the night before. It reads fine, so you film it, and the first take runs to ninety seconds because nobody timed the lines out loud. You cut beats on the fly, standing in your kitchen, and the version you post has a strong middle and no ending.

The call to action says 'link in bio' because that's what everyone says. Your actual next step for a customer is a booking page, and the video never mentions it.

With the specialist

I

Three answers

The topic, the platform, and one true fact worth building around. If your operating system is installed, the script already knows your voice, your banned words and where your funnel actually points; if not, five calibration questions stand in.

  • QThe topic or product for this script
  • QThe platform, or platform-agnostic vertical
  • QOne true, feature-worthy fact, verified by you
II

The ship gate

The hook is counted at twelve spoken words or fewer, every beat is checked for a shot note, the lines are timed at natural speaking pace, and any fact you didn't verify dies before you see it.

  • Total spoken time is 35 seconds or under, and it equals the sum of the beat times shown
  • The hook line is twelve spoken words or fewer, counted
  • Every beat carries a shot or visual note: a line without a picture is not a beat
  • Exactly one call to action, pointing at your real funnel destination, never an assumed 'link in bio'
III

The deliverable

A beat table you can film from: spoken line, shot note and running time for each beat, one CTA pointing at your real next step, and a note on which beat to nail first.

Sample output

What the deliverable looks like, on a neutral example.

ScriptSample

A script for a mobile bike-repair service

Aimed at: commuters whose bike has sat broken in the hallway for a month. CTA destination: the online booking page. Total spoken time: 31 seconds.

HookYour bike isn't broken. It's just waiting for a visit.Close-up of a dusty bike in a hallway3 s
Body 1We come to your door and fix it on the spot.Van pulls up, tools come out6 s
CTABook a visit this week. Your commute is waiting.End card with the booking page on screen5 s

Three more body beats between. Film first: the hook shot, because the dusty bike in the hallway is the exact scene your viewer is living in.

By hand

typically 1 to 2 hours, and the first take usually runs long

With the specialist

three answers and a few minutes, then your review

Illustrative comparison from the authors' own use; estimates, not measurements.

Short-form Scripter: £19, yours to keep.

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