When writing, we use different registers for different target audiences.

Registers are the levels of formality in a text. Think about how different our texts sound when we write to family, to friends, to workplace peers, to a superior, to an insurance company, or to an academic journal. Each piece of writing will have a different register, using a sliding scale from informal to formal.

A script for multimedia, whether for a video or a podcast, also uses a specific register. A script is:

• more informal than a lecture or an academic paper
• shorter than a lecture or an academic paper
• written to be spoken out loud, in front of a camera or microphone

Keep this in mind as we continue our preparations for writing a script.