How Do You Write Scripts For Children?
“OK folks in this clip we’re going to talk about how to write scripts or stories for children. I’m going to answer this question a couple of different ways. One, how to write stories for children. Stories intended with children as the audience. You don’t want to treat them like idiots. Obviously you’re going to have to know your audience and know the material and know how to present it in a way that appeals to a younger audience but that doesn’t necessarily mean dumbing it down. A great example of this is Pixar. They continually produce high, high quality movies that appeal to a broad audience and they do so by not pandering just to children. So create a story that really captures their imaginations and their attentions because children’s attention spans are a lot shorter than most adults but is also so unbelievably high quality it just absolutely draws not just them in but everyone in in such a way that your film or television show or whatever can find the broadest audience. Try to re
