Teleprompter Rental Los Angeles (LA)

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If you are doing a public broadcast or speaking in a studio for broadcast to the public, you don’t want to be seen looking down at your paperwork so often that you unintentionally lose eye contact with your audience.

In the old days, the person that we saw every day who dealt with this sort of thing was actually the newscasters. In LA, prompters and teleprompters became standard long before the rest of the country figured out what they were.

Years ago ( no I am not telling you how many ), my sister and I used to practice being newscasters. To do this, we would set ourselves up straight faced in front of our home camera and practice reading from a flat piece of paper for up to 25 words while looking dead ahead.

We tried real hard not to laugh and did our best poker face animation while doing our utmost to remember every single word that we had just committed to short term memory. There were times, when we thought we did a better job than the newscasters, whom we delightedly caught looking down at their paperwork every 12-14 words.

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Then, suddenly everything changed but no one really noticed. First it was the weather lady, she not only spoke fluently without appearing to look at any paperwork, but she started pointing very accurately to places on an imaginary but very real map even though she wasn’t always even looking at the places she was pointing at. Well, that was like magic, but we all got so used to it that we didn’t even stop to ask, how the hell she did that.

Then, in another subtle shift, newscasters stopped looking down and reading the news information. This shift was so gradual across the country that most of us didn’t even notice it. The news people were suddenly looking directly at you and me as they spoke.

If you watched real close, in the early days you could sometimes catch their head moving back and forth ever so slightly. However, the studio management too quickly noticed that too and made them correct it so that only if you were very, very sharp would you catch their eyes sometimes moving from left to right as they were reading the teleprompter from a distance.

Studio technical management soon made the text on the teleprompter significantly larger and that cut out the side to side movement of the eyes. So, how long ago did this happen? Well, at least 10-15 years ago now.

So, if this change occurred in the TV studios more than a decade ago, why are you still reading from a static piece of paper while trying to talk to your audiences? Don’t you know that each shining face in the audience wants to believe that you are talking directly to them? Ha ha.

A few weeks ago, I was watching TV and saw a short clip of Rob Ford, the new mayor of  Toronto, as

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he bungled his way through a post-election victory speech. He looked down,  looked up, looked down, stayed down, stayed down and we wondered when he was going to look back at us, but no, he just kept his head down while quickly glancing into the camera as if that was enough.

Pathetic! Doesn’t anyone on his election support crew know about teleprompter rentals? Ha ha. Ok Toronto is too far away for a Teleprompter rental in LA, but c’mon, someone in toronto has to be able to rent a presidential teleprompter for their mayor elect, right?

Now Los Angeles is a very “happening town” and not one that lives on old technology for very long, especially when it comes to the latest wide angle cameras, 3D technology, Tricasters and Presidential Teleprompters.

If you are in LA and are looking for a teleprompter rental in LA, call us, we are simply just

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a phone call away.

Teleprompters such as Presidential, Interrotrons and many others are available at our new york City and LA Locations. Smaller amounts of stock is in Toronto, Canada.

Speech coaches who can travel and whom also know the teleprompter family of products fairly well are also available.

Don’t hesitate to call Daria if you need a very personable speech coach who can help you get the most from your teleprompter engagement experience.