Prerequisites

• High school diploma or above.
• Experience in creative writing.

Course Description

The script aims to define the structure of the program and guide the performance, helping hosts and presenters deliver consistent and inspiring content. Writing scripts for radio and podcasts is an artistic skill that involves developing engaging audio scripts, including dialogues, narration, and sound cues.
By exploring the nature of audio writing and how it differs from visual writing, participants will learn how to create professional scripts, enhancing the quality of radio and podcast productions and fostering better communication with the audience.

Course Objective

By the end of this course, participants will:
• Explain the fundamentals of scriptwriting in audio media.
• Build audio scripts and write appropriate dialogues.
• Apply storytelling techniques to transform ideas into scripts and choose the appropriate vocabulary.
• Edit scripts to ensure clarity and quality in writing.

Course Outline

• Introduction to scriptwriting:
- Definition of scriptwriting and its importance in audio media.
- Types of writing and their role in building audio content.
- Basic principles of writing audio scripts.

• Structuring and writing dialogues:
- Script structure.
- Script Types.
- Standards for developing the main idea of the script.
- Write the appropriate dialogues for audio scripts.

• Turning ideas into a script:
- Storytelling techniques in scripts.
- Principles of organizing and arranging initial ideas.
- Criteria for selecting appropriate vocabulary and expressions.

• Editing and proofreading scripts:
- Principles of editing the scripts.
- Clarity and linguistic quality of the script.
- Standards for choosing appropriate expressions.
- Principles of proofreading in scriptwriting.

Course Benefits

• A graduation certificate by Al Jazeera Media Institute.