REGENT X
Guide

How to film a week of short videos in one sitting

Finish every script before you touch the camera, set up once, then film them in order and leave the editing for later. A sitting goes wrong when you’re still deciding what to say with the camera running.

By Aeroswe LLC, maker of REGENT X, a teleprompter app for iPhone. Published November 6, 2026

Before you sit down

  1. Pick a number you’ll finish. Five is a good first sitting, and you can film more next time.
  2. Write all of them first. Give each one a word budget from the script length table. About 75 words is 30 seconds at an everyday pace.
  3. Put them in one document, in the order you’ll film them. Group the scripts that share an outfit or a background.
  4. Read each one out loud once and fix what you trip on.

A script template you can copy

Keep a batch in one plain-text document with a label on each script. Two labels are enough: a title, and the group it belongs to.

SCRIPT: A title you’ll recognize later
CATEGORY: Hooks

The first line, the one you’ll memorize.
The rest, written the way you say it. No stage directions.

SCRIPT: The next title
CATEGORY: UGC

The first line.
The rest.

These labels work anywhere as plain notes. They’re also the format REGENT X reads when you import a pack, so if you use it, each script lands on its own shelf.

Set up once

  • Put the phone on a tripod or stand, with the lens level with your eyes, as far away as you can still read the text. Here’s why distance helps.
  • Use light that won’t change. A lamp stays the same for the whole sitting. Daylight from a window doesn’t, so film in one stretch if you use it.
  • Find a quiet room and check the sound. Film ten seconds, then listen back with headphones.
  • Turn on Do Not Disturb, plug in the phone and check you have free storage.
  • Keep spare shirts nearby if the videos go out on different days.

Keep your face and text clear of the app’s buttons

TikTok, Reels and Shorts cover parts of a vertical video with buttons and captions, so frame with that in mind before you start.

Share of a 9:16 frame to keep clear.
Whose numbers Top Bottom Left Right
Meta’s guide for Reels ads 14% 35% 6% 6%
Krumzi’s figures for regular Reels 11% 17% 6% 6%
Krumzi’s figures for regular TikTok 13% 20% 6% 6%
Krumzi’s figures for regular Shorts 13% 17% 6% 6%
REGENT X’s safe-zone shading 11% 24% 4% 15%

These numbers don’t agree, and they won’t stay fixed. Platforms publish figures for ads, so figures for regular posts come from a third party. Krumzi says it measured the Reels screen itself, and for TikTok and Shorts it lists its sources instead. Krumzi checked its figures on November 2, 2026. TikTok and Google publish ad templates as images, and we haven’t quoted them here. REGENT X’s shading is a cautious mix of all three apps’ layouts, and it isn’t an ad spec.

In practice, keep your eyes in the upper middle of the frame, and keep on-screen text out of the bottom quarter and away from the right edge.

Film in order, and don’t edit yet

  • Memorize each first line. It’s the one you most want to say straight into the lens.
  • Film each script twice, then move on. Two usable takes beat six more tries at the first script.
  • When you slip, stop, breathe and say the sentence again. You’ll cut the mistake later.
  • Mark each script as done when you finish it, so a break doesn’t cost you your place.

If you film UGC for brands

  • Read the brief first, and note anything you must say or must not say.
  • If a brand wants hook options, film the main script once, then film each opening line on its own. Whoever edits can join any hook to the same body. The lighting and shirt match because you filmed them together.
  • Give each brand its own group in your document, so two briefs don’t get mixed up.
  • Send every take for one brand together, with names they can tell apart.

After the sitting

  • Back up the takes before you delete anything.
  • Edit in whatever you already use.
  • Write down what took longest. Next time, sort that part out first.

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