Below are examples of vo/sotvo scripts.

*If you are also editing the tape (as in the TV

Reporting
multi-media projects), you do not have to include the shot descriptions and times -though you
may want to do them for yourself, so you will know how long each shot should last. If
you are
just turning in a script (as in the master's class writing portfolio), you do need to include
brief shot
descriptions and times.
For editing: Remember that the first vo goes on the "A" tape; the SOT and the video after
it go on the
"B" tape.
Cimarron Tornado / (writer)
Anchor on cam
Cimarron,
TAKE VO

A massive cleanup is underway in

New Mexico, after a tornado hit the town yesterday.
------VO------

cg: Cimarron, N.M.

Overview of damage :04*
homes
Damaged roof :04
Pick-up, no garage :04
mobile home park damage :03
overturned mobile homes :04
TAKE SOT
cg: Stan Davis
Tornado Survivor
TRT :12
incue: When that thing...
outcue: into the air.
VO CONTINUES

Wreckage is all thats left of about 50

and businesses throughout the town.
Roofed houses are few and far between
in some neighborhoods,
and some vehicles are left without the structures
they once stood inside.
Mobile home communities were among the
hardest hit around town.
Homes were destroyed or thrown
around like cardboard boxes. Some had their
owners still inside.
------SOT------

------VO------

People going through rubble :04

Sorting mail :05

Residents returned today to the

wreckage that was their homes.
The mail will be sorted and these
people will try to regroup, but there may not
be any mailboxes left for delivery.

____________________________________________________________________
(Second Example)
Cimarron Tornado / (writer)
Anchor on cam
The small town of Cimarron, New
Mexico, is counting the losses today from a
damaging tornado.
TAKE VO
------VO-----cg: Cimarron, N.M.
The tornado roared through town
aerial :00-:04*
yesterday, destroying or damaging about
50 buildings.
going through rubble :04-:09
Now the clean-up begins. Townspeople
are getting help from boys at a nearby
scout ranch
overturned m.h.'s :09-:12
and trading stories of riding out the storm:

TAKE SOT
cg: Stan Davis
Tornado survivor
ic: When that thing hit
oc: right up into the air.
TRT :14
VO CONTINUES
him in hospital :00-:03
post office shots :03-:09

+:10pad

------SOT------

------VO-----Stan Davis is one of six people hurt

in the storm.
But the people of Cimarron are
working around the problems.
Today they still sorted the mail
amid the ruins of what used to be their post
office.