Production - Quick D setup
Added 2017-07-01 17:02:08 +0000 UTCTo make life easier for whoever is available to help me film a Quick D video, I set up a little station to the side of the greenscreen. It has a laptop that runs the teleprompter and a remote handle that can start/stop the camera. There's also a video monitor near the camera, angled so that both I and the operator can see the shot at all times, to make sure things look ok.
Because it's a static shot of me standing... statically, I don't bother wearing a lav mic. Instead there is a boom mic above, juuuust out of frame.
I usually go through all the lines chronologically and film it all in the same medium closeup. For parts I'm 100% sure I won't be on screen, I sometimes take off the jacket and gloves to cool off!
Once we've covered everything, I change the camera angle to a tighter closeup and we go through the whole thing again. So usually, when you see me talking and it cuts from a wider to a closer shot mid-sentence, those two takes were shot a couple hours apart.
Comments
It's an actual prompter - a matte box over the lens that reflects an iPad screen. I've tested a few apps and found that Teleprompt+ 3 works best for me. If you run it on the iPad and on a laptop, they can talk to each other and you can control the text in realtime, over wifi. I usually have just one person helping. (In the case of the latest video it was my dad.) I set up all the rigging and lighting the day before and then the assistant just has to start/stop the camera and play/finger-scroll the prompter text as I perform.
Captain Disillusion
2017-07-01 17:20:37 +0000 UTCDo you have an actual teleprompter with a mirror and all, or are you looking off center a little? And do you have a separate teleprompter operator? What size crew do you use for a Quick D?
Cassandra Gelvin
2017-07-01 17:10:12 +0000 UTC
