Talk2Camera
Anyone filming while moving

A teleprompter you can walk with

The recording screen: a large scrolling script fills the middle of the phone with the live camera visible behind and around it. The record button, camera switch and prompter speed modes sit along the bottom.
The script stays readable over the live camera, and the camera switch sits within thumb reach while you record.

The problem

A walk-and-talk is the hardest thing to do to camera. You are moving, you are talking, and you are trying to remember a script — and the moment you want to show what you are describing, you have to stop, end the recording, turn the phone round and start again.

Then you are in an editor, joining two clips and hoping the cut does not look like the accident it was.

How this gets made today

Most people memorise a few lines at a time and shoot in short takes, then stitch them together afterwards. It works, and it is why so much walk-and-talk footage has a visible cut every fifteen seconds.

The alternative is a printed script held below the lens, which fixes the words but ties you to one spot.

How it works with Talk2Camera

The script scrolls on screen as you speak. Pause for breath and it waits; skip a sentence and it catches up. You can put the script over the whole screen so you are reading rather than watching yourself, with the camera still running behind the words.

When you reach the thing you want to show, you flip to the rear camera — mid-sentence, without stopping. The recording does not break. There is no second file and no cut to hide, because the encoder never stopped.

You finish with one continuous clip: you talking, then the thing you were talking about, then you again if you flip back.

A worked example

You are walking through a building you are about to show. The script is on screen, covering the camera, scrolling as you speak. You reach the entrance, flip to the rear camera, keep reading while you pan across the frontage, and flip back to finish the line to camera.

One take. One file. Trim the top and tail, and it is ready to publish.

The features this uses