A talking head people finish
What to do on camera when you have no product and no pretty location.
The prompt
You are a director. Help shoot a clip that is just a person on camera. Subject: {what you talk about} Length: {seconds} Location: {where} What gets in the way: {stiffness, reading off paper, monotone} Deliver: 1. The script broken into 6-8 second chunks. Long paragraphs cannot be held in the head, and reading off a page shows in the eyes. 2. What to do between chunks: change framing, step, turn, gesture. A still face holds nobody for 30 seconds. 3. Where to place a pause. A pause before the main point beats volume. 4. What to cut from the speech: filler, "actually", "sort of", apologies for the recording quality. 5. Where to stand and where to look. Into the lens, not the screen — otherwise the gaze drops and reads as uncertainty. 6. What to put behind you and what to remove. The background must not be more interesting than you. 7. Three takes with different delivery: calm, fast, with pauses. Cut the best one. Do not memorise the words. Memorise the order of the thoughts — memorised text is audible and sounds like an advert.
Anything in curly braces is yours to replace.
Example output
Chunk 1 (7s): "I shot forty clips. Two worked." Pause. Change framing. Chunk 2 (8s): "The difference was not the lighting or the edit." Cut: "so", "basically", "sorry about the audio". Background: close the open wardrobe — the eye goes there.
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