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What are Presidential Teleprompters? How are they different from “Down Stage Monitors”?
Posted by Andrew Parker in Presidential Prompter, Teleprompter aka Autocue Monday, 12 October 2009 07:02 No Comments
What is a Presidential Teleprompter?
Presidential Teleprompters prompters look a bit like twin glass music stands positioned on each side of the speaker. Copy is projected from a screen placed below and out o sight of the audience. The speaker can view the copy as it unfolds seen on both panels to his/her right and left. The view of the audience is unobstructed and while the audience may see the glass panels, they cannot see the copy displayed. Unseen is a professional prompter operator whose job it is to synchronize the moving copy with the confortable pace of speaker.
What are down stage monitors or as they are often called floor monitors or confidence monitors?
These are big video monitors or projection screens positioned in the presenter’s line of sight as he/she addresses the audience.
How dos one decide between using presidential prompters, conference monitors and down stage monitors?
If the speaker uses a lectern, he/she would use presidential teleprompters. If he/she wants to roam about the audience use down stage monitors.
When Prompters Fail!
Posted by Andrew Parker in Teleprompter aka Autocue Monday, 12 October 2009 06:34 No Comments
What happens when teleprompters fail? On air talent, whether in news or entertainment, rely on professional teleprompters to enable them to, not only get the story exactly right, but to look straight into the camera and deliver their dialogue with sincerity and total believability. When the prompter fails, they are left to their ability to improvise on the spot. Some do this far better than others. Witness the poor news anchor whose prompter fails in the midst of a story while he’s live on air:
The take away? Make sure your teleprompter is totally reliable and your operator is a professional. Just give The American Movie Company, a call during office hours at 212-952-1800 or anytime at 917-414-5489. We’ll get you the right prompter and a professional operator at the best price in town. We also supply Presidential Prompters and the new Earl Morris Interritrons either at your location or in one of our green screen sound stages at 50 Broadway, Manhattan.
Posted by Andrew Parker in Errol Morris Interrotron, Teleprompter aka Autocue Sunday, 11 October 2009 01:08 No Comments
April Fool’s Day Joke on newscaster. At KUJHTV a prankster puts bogus copy into her prompter while live on the air. The address for the alleged prostitution ring is her own home address She totally looses it while reading the copy.
What You Should Know Before Buying a Digital Camera
Posted by Julie Lowry in Cameras Friday, 18 September 2009 19:37 No Comments
Digital images are created by light being focused onto semiconductors. The popularity of digital cameras has been closely linked with the increasing popularity of personal computing, both in terms of making advances features possible and how people prefer their pictures. Digital photography allows a paperless age, where people often prefer to store, view, and share images over the computer instead of printing them physically.
Creativity is highly personal, and it is what drives photography. When planning to get a digital camera, talk to those you know who own one. Extensive information is available on the Internet, so that you don’t make your purchase blindly.
Certain features are invaluable for different types of photography. A large zoom lens is great when taking pictures of the great outdoors. Children move fast, so when taking photos of kids in action you’ll want a fast response time. For indoor photography with people in set poses, you’ll want a model that is good in dim light.
For novices interested in photography, a simple all-around model should do until you learn more about the challenges of taking photos. There are two kinds of digital cameras – the Point-and-Shoot, and the Digital SLR.
The Point-and-Shoot
Most of the settings on the point-and-shoot are automatic. It can adjust to many different environments and lighting without you doing much. If you want to customize there will probably be a mode preset for you to use, with settings tailored for outdoors, indoors, sunny, cloudy, and so on.
Use automatic settings when you want the light sensitivity (ISO) and focal length calculated for you. Read around to find which cameras are best at this.
The compact camera can offer solid features as well as small size, including image stabilization and blur reduction. Some even have face detection. You should also be able to find many compact cameras that offer a large, easy to use LCD screen.
Digital zoom technology crops images and then enlarges them. This can affect image quality and clarity. Optical zoom cameras can give more natural looking images, as they adjust the lens physically. Beginners don’t necessarily need optical zoom unless they take pictures of distant landscapes, or perhaps tiny things like insects and leaves.
The Digital SLR camera (single lens reflex)
Digital SLR cameras are for advanced users – those who want to manage and control what the camera does, rather than just point and shoot. SLRs can offer interchangeable lenses, and have a myriad of manual controls. Many settings can still be automatic, but an SLR is best for those who want hands-on control instead of automatic settings.
The Camera Features Worth Paying For
Posted by Larry Woods in Cameras Thursday, 20 August 2009 06:49 No Comments
Today’s cameras offer a wide array of features that can be both confusing and overwhelming when trying to shop for the right camera. Features such as wide zoom range, face detect, megapixel count, image stabilization and high ISO can sound like a foreign language. If this sounds familiar, read on for some quick helpful tips to get your money’s worth.
The Image Stabilization Feature
This feature also called the ‘anti camera shake feature by canon, also referred to as ‘IS’ works by having an element inside the camera that detects small movements such as hands shaking slightly and adjust the camera to compensate for the movement. Other manufacturers offer this feature under names such as Mega OIS, Vibration Reduction and Super Steady Shot among others.
So, why is this feature so fantastic? The reason is simple; it allows photos to be taken in dimmer light without the use of flash or a high ISO setting. In most cases, the best pictures are taken in dimmer light, so do no not even consider buying a camera that does not offer this feature.
The Wide Zoom Range Feature
For the wide zoom range feature, a wider range can be achieved when taking a photo. For example, today’s every day point and shoot camera will come with a 35mm to 140mm feature. This is a decent range, however, the 140mm at the telephoto end will allow for frame filling when shooting at long distances while the 35mm will not allow everything being shot to be included in the photo. To gain everything you are looking for; try a 28mm on the wide end.
The Megapixel Count
Pixels are tiny dots that make up a photo, similar to that of how newsprint is made. If you take a magnifying glass to your newspaper, you will see the dots. Megapixel refers to a million dots. The listed megapixel count for a camera refers to the maximum amount of dots that will make up a photo once the finished quality photo has been selected.
In general, a range of six to eight megapixels is plenty for the average, casual photographer. Purchasing a high megapixel count is worth the money, however six megapixels is kind of overkill. Anything higher than six will only be truly worthwhile if you plan on making large prints out of your photos. In addition, higher megapixel count also allows for more latitude for cropping your photos without losing quality. This makes a higher range beneficial.