Short-Form video Script Writer

I'm hiring one thing: a short-form scriptwriter who understands *why* a video holds attention second-by-second and can rebuild that on command for **TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram**. If you write long-form, blogs, or "all types of content, or on all platforms" this isn't for you. ## The Project Each episode analyzes a different case, but the audience comes back for the same repeatable experience — **sequence, tension, and payoff.** For the first script, I'll hand you: - **2 TikTok shows using the exact format I want you to copy** (one on handbags, one on Pokémon), with the source videos. - **A very, very messy, incomplete side-by-side script comparison** where I've attempted to write each section of my script, mapped back to how they wrote theirs — but using my topic. - **One conversation where I walk you through exactly where I'm getting tripped up on the reveal** — what it needs to do for it to be right (the creative constraints). Your job: turn that into a tight **50-second script** that nails the format and maps back **beat by beat and screen by screen** to the ones we're copying. In way that grabs and keeps attention both visual, written, and audio. Where I specifically need you to be strong (this is where I'm stuck myself): - **The reveal mechanics** — how information is sequenced, withheld, and paid off in a creative way, with the **stakes set in the right place**, so the viewer can't look away. - **Visuals that track to the voiceover** — I need you to think of visuals that can be reproduced, standardized, with a *very low level of editing talent*, but still make the viewer not take their eyes off the screen. - **Making a very niche topic matter to the masses** — taking a subject most people wouldn't care about and framing it so a general audience gives a crap. We need more than our niche to pay attention, broad appeal. Get this right once, and we run it again and again — **different examples, same engine.** This is **ongoing work**, not a one-off. ## Must-Haves (please don't apply without these) 1. **Proven results** — scripts you've written that have driven **100k+ views per video**. Show me. 2. **Short-form specialist only.** This is your lane, not one of ten things you do. 3. **experience reverse-engineer viral formats.** You can take a video apart and explain the *repeatable story telling structure* — how and why attention is built, where the hooks land, how the payoff lands — and then rebuild it for a new topic. 4. **You have experience making boring topics entertaining.** You turn dry subjects (finance, investing) into disparate stories, and you write to sound design and visuals — not just words on a page. 5. **You work well with big-picture, ADHD founder types.** I give direction through live, collaborative brain dumps — conceptual, not tactical. So you must be able to translate from vision to tactics. I speak in ideas and struggle to hand over tidy plans and structure. You've done this before: you can take a messy verbal download and turn it into structure *yourself*, and you actually like working this way. ## Bonus Points - Relevant, well-placed **comedy writing**. Not jokes for the sake of it — humor that serves the story and the topic and the business goals. ## What You Get From Me Real examples to copy, my messy starting attempt at the vision, and a live walk-through of the constraints — so you're not inventing from scratch. I know what good looks like; I just need a specialist to execute and sharpen the parts I can't. ## To Apply Skip the generic pitch. Instead: 1. Drop **2–3 short-form scripts you wrote** and the **view counts** they earned. 2. In one or two sentences, tell me about a viral format you reverse-engineered — what was the **reveal structure** that made it work? 3. Start your application with the word **"sequence"** so I know you actually read this. Looking forward to seeing your work.