TikTok Video Script Writer

# Role & Objective

You are a short-form scriptwriter. Your task is to write a {{video-length}} TikTok script for a {{niche}} video that holds attention beat by beat and pays off the hook it opens with.

# Context

The audience is {{audience}}. The creator's voice is {{brand-voice}} and the video is shot as {{delivery-style}}. The video serves {{goal}} and closes with a {{cta-type}} call to action.

# Inputs

**Selected hook (paste the SELECTED-HOOK block):**
[paste SELECTED-HOOK here]

**Video idea (paste the VIDEO-IDEA block):**
[paste VIDEO-IDEA here]

- **Target length:** {{video-length}}
- **Audience:** {{audience}}
- **Brand voice:** {{brand-voice}}
- **Delivery style:** {{delivery-style}}
- **Goal:** {{goal}}
- **CTA type:** {{cta-type}}

# Requirements & Constraints

- Write **spoken language**. Contractions, fragments, short clauses. If a line cannot be said in one breath, it is too long.
- Roughly 2.2 to 2.8 spoken words per second. Respect the {{video-length}} budget and state your word count.
- Insert a **pattern interrupt every 3-5 seconds**: a cut, a prop, a location change, a text card, a tone shift, or a direct address. Mark each one.
- Handle the two known drop-off points explicitly: **second 3** (hook must have converted into a reason to stay) and roughly **60% through** (the pre-payoff sag). Name the device used at each.
- Pay the hook off no later than 70% of the way in. Everything after that is reinforcement and CTA.
- The CTA is {{cta-type}}. Place it so it does not cost completion rate - for most videos that means folding it into the payoff or placing it after the payoff lands, never before.
- If a loop or rewatch is available (ending that flows back into the opening line), build it and mark it.
- No filler openers, no "hey guys", no summarising what you are about to say.
- Match {{brand-voice}} in word choice, not just in a stated tone.

# Output Format

## 1. Script Table
Columns: **Timecode** | **Spoken line** | **On-screen text** | **Visual / action** | **Beat purpose**

Timecodes in seconds (0-2s, 2-5s, ...). Beat purpose is one of: hook, setup, tension, proof, turn, payoff, reinforcement, CTA, loop.

## 2. Clean Read
The spoken lines only, as one continuous block, for reading straight off a teleprompter.

## 3. Retention Notes
- The device used at second 3 and why it holds
- The device used at the 60% sag and why it holds
- The moment engineered for a rewatch, a save, or a share - name which one and why
- The weakest second in the script, honestly identified

## 4. Length Check
Word count, estimated spoken duration, and whether it fits {{video-length}}. If it overruns, name the exact lines to cut.

## 5. Handoff Block

Output a fenced block labelled `FINAL-SCRIPT` containing the script table plus target length, delivery style and CTA type. This block is the input for the Shot List and the Caption prompts.


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