mdifilm
03-17-2008, 07:03 AM
So, recently I had an industrial video shoot where the talent will be acting like a host for a tv show and she will be walking all over the manufacturing company talking toward the camera and to the assembly line workers.
It shouldn't be difficult other than she will be doing it in Chinese and most of the English words will be basic while she will do more indepth description of what the workers are doing in Chinese, which prompted us realized we might need teleprompters that can be portable enough to move around...
So, we needed a smaller and not too heavy teleprompter that can move with the camera operator, which has a HVX200 attached to a dvtec's shoulder mount system (which is a phenomenal mounting system but I think it's a bit overpriced).
So, after looking at the shoulder mount we realized we can quickly build a teleprompter with what we have:
- 7" swivel portable dvd player with line-in input that can be placed flat as a monitor
- black fabric that covers the camera with the teleprompter
- basic aluminium frames and screws purchased from Home Depot for like about $20
- a friend that had build props and such for me for years can do this
- a basic glass (those light ones)
So, with that in mind, Tom build the teleprompter, see here
http://clevelandfx.blogspot.com/2008/03/monitors-and-rigs-and-teleprompters-oh.html
So, we had it done, and tested it with the actor in front about 10 ft away that can still read the text, we use ScriptQ3 program which has 15 days trial and it can actually import all Chinese characters in withtout any problem...
it worked...
Unfortunately, the actor actually had all the lines memorized (2000 words) and so we never really needed the teleprompter... Buy we now own a portable one that we can use for any future shoot plus Tom created a 'presidential' type for in-studio usage as well.
See above blog on the teleprompter.
Johnny
It shouldn't be difficult other than she will be doing it in Chinese and most of the English words will be basic while she will do more indepth description of what the workers are doing in Chinese, which prompted us realized we might need teleprompters that can be portable enough to move around...
So, we needed a smaller and not too heavy teleprompter that can move with the camera operator, which has a HVX200 attached to a dvtec's shoulder mount system (which is a phenomenal mounting system but I think it's a bit overpriced).
So, after looking at the shoulder mount we realized we can quickly build a teleprompter with what we have:
- 7" swivel portable dvd player with line-in input that can be placed flat as a monitor
- black fabric that covers the camera with the teleprompter
- basic aluminium frames and screws purchased from Home Depot for like about $20
- a friend that had build props and such for me for years can do this
- a basic glass (those light ones)
So, with that in mind, Tom build the teleprompter, see here
http://clevelandfx.blogspot.com/2008/03/monitors-and-rigs-and-teleprompters-oh.html
So, we had it done, and tested it with the actor in front about 10 ft away that can still read the text, we use ScriptQ3 program which has 15 days trial and it can actually import all Chinese characters in withtout any problem...
it worked...
Unfortunately, the actor actually had all the lines memorized (2000 words) and so we never really needed the teleprompter... Buy we now own a portable one that we can use for any future shoot plus Tom created a 'presidential' type for in-studio usage as well.
See above blog on the teleprompter.
Johnny