Teleprompting
Anyone have any insight on low-budget teleprompter solutions? Assume presence of laptops and general technical know-how.
This is an agenda item for tomorrow's Gameshelf meeting. I'm confident that the crew can bang some ideas out together, and I plan on putting some research time in later this evening, but I'd be curious to know if any of y'all happen to know anything already.
The goal is simply improving the show's host segments. In the past I've just scribbled key phrases on a large easel-mounted newsprint pad and had the stage manager flip through it while the host attempts to construct a monologue on the spot. This has not worked well.
I think about plugging a lappy running Powerpoint (or its moral equivalent) into a monitor positioned behind the camera, and having the stage dood page that forward as necessary. Ideally the speakers themselves could control the page flippiness, freeing the manager from worrying about it, but it's not immediately obvious to me how to do that. One imagines pedal controls, but, um.
This is an agenda item for tomorrow's Gameshelf meeting. I'm confident that the crew can bang some ideas out together, and I plan on putting some research time in later this evening, but I'd be curious to know if any of y'all happen to know anything already.
The goal is simply improving the show's host segments. In the past I've just scribbled key phrases on a large easel-mounted newsprint pad and had the stage manager flip through it while the host attempts to construct a monologue on the spot. This has not worked well.
I think about plugging a lappy running Powerpoint (or its moral equivalent) into a monitor positioned behind the camera, and having the stage dood page that forward as necessary. Ideally the speakers themselves could control the page flippiness, freeing the manager from worrying about it, but it's not immediately obvious to me how to do that. One imagines pedal controls, but, um.