CLNR Studios | Script Writer

Short-Form Video Scriptwriter & Content Strategist

Company: CLNR Studios
Position: Remote, freelance or part-time
Compensation: Competitive and based on experience
Potential: Long-term, ongoing work

About CLNR Studios

CLNR Studios is a creative production company helping brands, founders, and professionals produce high-quality short-form video content.

We’re looking for a skilled scriptwriter and content strategist who can transform our clients’ expertise, experiences, and ideas into compelling videos that position them as credible subject-matter experts.

This role goes beyond writing dialogue. You should understand storytelling, music, pacing, audience retention, visual direction, production, and the complete creative process behind winning short-form content.

Responsibilities

• Research each client, their industry, target audience, competitors, and content opportunities
• Turn complex topics into clear, engaging, easy-to-understand scripts
• Write educational, informational, storytelling, promotional, and authority-building content
• Create powerful hooks that capture attention within the first few seconds
• Structure scripts to build curiosity and retain viewers
• Help clients sound knowledgeable, confident, natural, and authentic
• Adapt each script to the client’s unique voice, personality, and audience
• Write scripts around music, including specific songs, instrumentals, beats, or audio trends
• Structure dialogue, visuals, cuts, and transitions to match a track’s rhythm, tempo, mood, and beat changes
• Identify musical moments for emotional shifts, reveals, transitions, pauses, and visual payoffs
• Create detailed shot lists and visual directions
• Recommend B-roll, camera angles, demonstrations, props, graphics, and on-screen text
• Provide editor notes for captions, sound effects, transitions, pacing, animations, and pattern interrupts
• Generate content ideas based on client goals, audience questions, current conversations, and industry topics
• Rewrite and improve scripts based on internal feedback, client feedback, and performance data
• Collaborate with producers, directors, editors, and account managers
• Maintain organized content calendars, scripts, and approval workflows

Writing to Music

The ideal candidate understands how music influences the structure and emotion of a video. You should be able to:

• Select or recommend music that supports the intended tone
• Write concepts inspired by the mood and progression of a track
• Time dialogue, actions, and visuals around musical cues
• Mark timestamps, beats, drops, transitions, and emotional changes
• Build anticipation before a musical payoff
• Plan montage sequences that cut naturally to the beat
• Use silence and pauses intentionally
• Communicate music timing clearly to production and editing teams
• Create alternative versions when music licensing or platform restrictions require different tracks

What Every Script Should Include

• Content objective
• Target audience
• Recommended video length and platform
• Multiple hook options
• Spoken dialogue or voiceover
• Story or information structure
• Visual hook
• Shot-by-shot breakdown
• A-roll and B-roll directions
• Camera angles and framing suggestions
• On-screen text and caption emphasis
• Graphics, screenshots, props, or demonstrations
• Editing and pacing notes
• Music recommendation or creative direction
• Musical timestamps and beat cues when applicable
• Sound-design opportunities
• Pattern interrupts
• Call to action
• Alternative ending or CTA when appropriate

Requirements

• Proven experience writing scripts for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, or similar platforms
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Strong understanding of storytelling, pacing, hooks, retention, and audience psychology
• A strong sense of rhythm, timing, musicality, and emotional pacing
• Experience writing scripts or visual sequences around music
• Ability to establish authority without making clients sound stiff or overly promotional
• Ability to capture different voices rather than making every client sound the same
• Strong research and fact-checking skills
• Ability to write natural dialogue that sounds good when spoken aloud
• Experience creating shot lists and visual concepts
• Understanding of video production and post-production
• Awareness of captions, B-roll, motion graphics, music licensing, sound design, and editing
• Ability to accept feedback and revise work quickly
• Excellent organization, communication, and deadline management
• Ability to manage multiple clients and projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with founders, executives, coaches, consultants, or personal brands
• Experience writing both story-driven and educational content
• Knowledge of direct-response copywriting and calls to action
• Experience conducting client interviews or extracting content from long-form recordings
• Familiarity with social media analytics and performance-based iteration
• Basic knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro, music editing, Notion, and Google Docs
• Experience working with a creative agency, production company, or music-driven content team

To Apply

Please include:

1. A brief introduction and summary of your short-form scriptwriting experience
2. Your portfolio or writing samples
3. Three short-form scripts you’ve written
4. Examples of shot lists or visual directions you’ve created
5. An example of a script or video that was structured around music
6. Links to published videos based on your scripts, if available
7. Your availability and time zone
8. Your rate and typical turnaround time
9. A brief description of your research and writing process

Shortlisted candidates may be invited to complete a brief paid test assignment based on a client profile, creative brief, and selected music track.

We’re looking for a hardworking, thoughtful, and highly creative writer who understands how to combine expertise, storytelling, visuals, and music into content people genuinely want to watch. For the right person, this can become a consistent, long-term opportunity with CLNR Studios.