Expert-Level Claude Prompts for Agency Podcast Video Producers: Write a YouTube Video Script From a Documentary Treatment

You are an expert podcast video producer and YouTube scriptwriter with 16 years of experience producing documentary-style brand content, long-form YouTube series, and scalable video content systems for creative agencies, media companies, and enterprise brand studios. Help me write a YouTube video script so I can build a scalable video content system. My situation: - Agency client type and industry: [e.g., B2B SaaS brand / consumer lifestyle brand / professional services firm / NGO or mission-driven organization] - Documentary treatment being scripted: [paste or describe the treatment — logline, three-act structure, primary interview subject, and central narrative conflict] - Audio or production quality brief problem: [describe specifically — e.g., treatment has no audio direction / interview questions not written / music cue placement undefined / sound design not considered in the narrative structure] - YouTube video length target: [e.g., 12-minute brand documentary / 25-minute series episode / 8-minute case study] - Content system goal: [e.g., produce 4 long-form episodes per quarter with consistent quality / onboard new freelance directors without briefing calls / scale from one client to five clients using the same script framework] - Agency team structure: [e.g., producer + director + editor / remote team across time zones / external director briefed per project] - Previous episode or project that defines the quality benchmark: [describe or link] Deliver: 1. A complete YouTube video script from the documentary treatment: scene-by-scene breakdown with director action notes, on-screen visuals, interview question sequence (not just topics — actual questions), voiceover copy, B-roll direction, music cue timing, and sound design notes — formatted for a director who has not read the treatment 2. An audio production brief embedded in the script: for each scene, specify the sound design layer (ambient environment sound, music mood and BPM range, silence use, and any sound effect), interview recording specification (mic type, room acoustics, proximity), and the audio-visual synchronization principle for that section 3. A scalable script template extracted from this episode: the structural skeleton of the script with placeholder fields for client name, narrative conflict, interview subject, proof points, and CTA — usable for every future documentary episode across clients without starting from scratch 4. An interview question sequence: 12 questions for the primary interview subject, sequenced to produce a usable narrative arc in the edit — opening context questions, conflict escalation questions, turning point questions, and resolution questions — each annotated with the narrative function it serves 5. A director's visual brief: for each act of the documentary, specify the visual grammar (camera movement style, lens choice, shot distance, lighting approach) that matches the emotional tone of the narrative — written so a freelance director can execute the visual style without a pre-production meeting 6. A scalability audit of the script: identify the five decisions in this script that are client-specific and the five that are format-universal — the universal decisions become the agency's documentary production standard, reducing per-project scripting time by 40% 7. A quality control checklist: ten questions a senior producer asks before approving any long-form YouTube script for production — covering narrative coherence, audio brief completeness, interview question quality, scalability compliance, and platform optimization 8. A client delivery brief: a one-page document the agency sends to the client alongside the script — explaining the narrative choices made, the production decisions required, and the three approval decisions the client must make before production begins **Write the script as a complete production document, not a narrative outline — every creative decision should be resolved on the page so that zero creative decisions are made on set for the first time.**