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…
Teleprompting is a dance. People often assume that the teleprompter operator drives the speed of the speech. They think that we just set the pace and the speaker has to follow us. It’s not uncommon for people to think they’d…
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…
The presidential teleprompter demystified: no, the audience can’t see your words. When I was a kid, and saw photographs of these glass panels around a lectern, I just thought they were bullet-proof glass to protect the speaker. Like, someone Secret…
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…
The necklace that I wear at all times is a conversation starter. People from clerks to CEOs, and bicycle messengers to busy librarians have remarked “What a great necklace. Where did you get it?” I smile, and share this story…
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…
