The script
Audio-visual productions consist of a combination of words and pictures, which work together. The script should add to what the viewer can see. It is like showing a series of pictures to a friend, putting them into context and drawing attention to the most important part.
The commentary on a factual production should be almost the last stage of programme-making. Televised news programmes, being produced to a tighter deadline, will have a more detailed preliminary script, but it will not be finalized until the pictures are edited. If the pictures are cut to fit the words, the end result is either radio with pictures or an illustrated lecture. This does not mean that nothing can be done before the editing and dubbing stages. There will ...
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