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What a short-form script actually needs
A script for a forty-second video is not a shortened essay. It is a hook that works with no context, a middle that pays the hook off in three or four beats, and a last line that lands rather than asks for a follow.
That is the structure this returns: one line per scene, written for the ear, none of them longer than about twenty-five words — because a sentence longer than that cannot be said in one breath and will not fit one shot.