How to Tell if Your YouTube Script is Actually Good.
Congrats! You wrote a full on YouTube script. But now the doubt is creeping in. Maybe it isn’t as good as you thought, or it’s completely missed the mark, or your competitor just published a video that’s about the exact same thing.
Or maybe, you’re overthinking.
But how do you tell the difference?
As a professional writer/overthinker, I’ve had to develop a process for vetting the scripts I write to make sure they perform well. You may have a similar process in a gut feeling of reading a script and knowing it will make a great video.
So let’s strip that feeling down and really dig into how you can tell if your video is a hit or a miss, and why that even matters.
Why Over-Explaining Is Killing Your Educational Videos.
Writing an educational script is complicated. How do you balance giving accurate information with delivering content that engages your audience? Good news is they’re kind of the same thing.
To educational audiences, the value that comes from explaining ideas is the reason they engage with the video so writing scripts in this niche is really about making that value accessible to that audience.
But to this end, scripts can often over-explain complex topics that make audiences feel talked down to or worse, insulted.
Avoiding this can be challenging, particularly when dealing with very complex fields, but here are some tips I’ve used to write for educational channels that may help you out.