Elements and Performance Criteria
- Clarify writing requirements
- In consultation with relevant personnel, identify relevant sources for current affairs stories or narration
- Ensure that scripts can be prepared within production deadlines
- Identify narrative, auditory and visual elements that may be appropriate for each type of script
- Identify potential target audience to ensure that scripts meet their expectations
- Focus on perspective of target audience when deciding on format of script
- Identify scheduling and program issues that affect writing assignments
- Prepare to write scripts
- Verify and review source material and select information or angles that meet target audience requirements
- Summarise information to meet production requirements
- Identify material that could result in a breach of laws and regulations and resolve issues in consultation with relevant personnel
- Develop a structure for current affairs or narration that creates an auditory and visual narrative for target audiences
- Ensure that preparation is completed so that production deadlines can be met
- Write current affairs and narration
- Incorporate accepted elements of language to ensure that scripts are easy to present on air or online
- Apply conventions of writing broadcast and online copy to scripts
- Write in a way that minimises the need for editing
- Refine and redraft scripts until they meet creative, technical and production requirements
- Read scripts aloud to test ease of on-air presentation and mark up copy for presenters as required
- Submit copy to relevant personnel for consideration and review
- Document and implement required changes to copy in an efficient manner and within production deadlines
- Obtain sign-off on scripts