Production - Quick D setup (Patreon)

To 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.