We’ve been doing this Celebrity Golf Challenge for about 6 years now. It’s a great client who trusts us with their CEO and a major sports celebrity. They have a short welcome script that has a 8 minute window to…
While we completely understand budgets, we also know your editor needs a prompter so each take is identical instead of ad-libbed. Your lawyer needs them to make sure they didn’t misspeak. Your talent actually loves them. That’s because, often, your…
Choosing the right equipment for your production, like camera, location, sound, and a teleprompter is essential. A second factor, is how well the speaker and teleprompter operator work together. These two elements could ultimately make or break your presentation. Why…
I get asked this question a lot. I imagine it helps with the pedigree and trust. I’m proud of my clients over the 30 years of teleprompting. It’s always an honor to hear who I’ll be working with next. Even…
I’ve seen a lot of changes in the teleprompter industry. When I first started, a teleprompter was mostly limited to the studio. I used my client’s crazy proprietary “remote” teleprompter system that would give a composite video out, but only…
Director Michael Bay spoke briefly at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2014) to introduce the new large screen curved displays from Samsung. The talk was streamed live. Michael was supposed to read from a downstage monitor (DSM.) Apparently, when Bay…
A teleprompter is the modern version of “smoke and mirrors.” There was this theatrical method called “Pepper’s Ghost” in the 1860’s that used a stretched piece of thin fabric placed between the audience and the stage. It was invisible unless…
I’ve wanted to try superimposing teleprompted script over a person’s face for years. It made sense: put the words for the talent to read as usual, but also to see the friendly face of the director to nod, smile or…
I have a long history with commencement (aka graduation) ceremonies. This is because I used to play saxophone in the marching bands for both my high school and university. At least once a year, we’d perform ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ over…
Tonight was a blast—teleprompting for a local community hospital, in Chinese! It was an example of working together as a team to help the client with something that was quite unique. The client had requested Mandarin, Cantonese, and the ability…
