Seven boxes for an eight-minute narrative episode. The example tells the story of a school's first robotics team; swap in your own story and keep the shape.
Box 1: Hook
20 sec[speaker, line, sound, duration]
[sound: a buzzer, then a crowd groaning] NARRATOR: Our robot had been on the field for eleven seconds when it drove straight into a wall.
Box 2: Where we are
1 min 30[set the place, the people and the question]
NARRATOR: [School name] had never had a robotics team. Six students, one borrowed classroom and a deadline eight weeks away. The question: could a team that started from nothing finish at all?
Box 3: What happens
2 min[the main event; mark clips you need to collect]
[interview clip to record: team captain on the first build] NARRATOR: The first robot took three weeks to build and three minutes to break.
Box 4: Complication
1 min 30[what made it harder, or a second point of view]
[interview clip to record: the teacher who lent the classroom] NARRATOR: Then, two weeks before the competition, the classroom was needed back.
Box 5: Turning point
1 min[where the story changes direction; plan a pause or music change]
[music drops out] NARRATOR: So they moved the whole build into the captain's garage.
Box 6: Resolution
1 min 30[what was learned or decided; return to the opening question]
NARRATOR: They did not win. But the second robot made it through every match, and the wall from the first eleven seconds became the team's logo.
Box 7: Closing line
20 sec[the last thing the listener hears, word for word]
NARRATOR: Next year they are coming back. They say they know where the walls are now. [music up and out]