Teleprompter
Screen that scrolls a script over the camera lens
A mirror and a small screen mounted in front of the lens, so the text scrolls exactly where the eyeline already points. Scripted pieces stay on message and nobody glances off to one side. Reading from one and still sounding like a person talking is the part that takes practice.
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- Tiago ForteDoes it
Productivity writer · Building a Second Brain
Reads his scripted YouTube pieces from a teleprompter. Sounding natural while doing it turned out to be the hard part: he says talking to a camera demanded a level of energy that years of writing online had not prepared him for.
Source: fortelabs.com: The Road to 300,000 Subscribers, a YouTube Retrospective
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