In short
It's you on camera, explaining something you know. A phone, a window and a quiet room are enough. The work is in the edit: cut the pauses and retakes, add captions, and export it upright for Reels, TikTok and Shorts.
What a talking head video is
A talking head video is one person on camera, framed from about the chest up, speaking to the lens. There's no set and no actors. For a coach, a consultant or an agent, it's the post that does the most work, because people see how you explain things before they ever book a call.
Set up in five minutes
- Camera: your phone, upright, at eye level. Prop it on books or a small tripod.
- Framing: head and shoulders, with a little space above your head. Look at the lens rather than at yourself on the screen.
- Light: face a window. Light behind you turns you into a silhouette.
- Sound: a quiet room with soft things in it, and the phone close, or a clip-on mic.
- Background: tidy and plain beats impressive and busy.
Say it, don't read it
Reading a script word for word sounds like reading. Write three or four bullet points instead: the hook, the point, one example, the ask. If you need the words, the free online teleprompter scrolls your script at your own pace while the phone records. The script length calculator tells you how long it'll run.
Example
Hook: 'Most people price their first project wrong.' Point: price it by the project when you've done the work before. Example: the landing page you quoted at a fixed fee. Ask: 'Tell me how you price yours in the comments.'
Film it in takes
Say it two or three times. When you trip, stop, breathe, and start the sentence again. Those pauses are where the edit cuts, so leave them clean.
Film upright for Reels, TikTok and Shorts. Reels take up to 9:16 [1], and YouTube counts a square or vertical video of up to three minutes as a Short [2]. LinkedIn takes any shape from 1:2.4 to 2.4:1 [3], so upright works there too.
Edit out everything that isn't the point
Cut the pauses, false starts and filler words. The cuts that jump you forward mid-sentence are jump cuts, and on a talking head video they keep the pace up. Add a few seconds of B-roll where you mention something people could see.
Then captions, because many people watch without sound. Put the hook on screen in the first second.
Postmosis edits the video you filmed on your phone in the browser: it cuts the pauses, retakes and filler words, adds captions in 6 styles, keeps your face in frame, drops in B-roll, and exports 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 and 16:9 in one run. See the video editor
On days you can't film
Postmosis can also make a short video without filming: your photo or an AI presenter speaking a script you write, up to 2 a day. See videos without filming
Sources
- Reel size and aspect ratios on Instagram, Instagram Help Centre, read 28 October 2026
- Understand three-minute YouTube Shorts, YouTube Help, read 28 October 2026
- Video sharing troubleshooting, LinkedIn Help, read 28 October 2026
- Record a reel on Instagram, Instagram Help Centre, read 28 October 2026
