Film director James Cameron is on stage in front of hundreds of wealthy X PRIZE Foundation donors. He’s reading a speech from a teleprompter in order to raise funds and awareness. People are listening attentively and writing checks. What you don’t know is that just hours before the live event, the in-house teleprompter system failed.…
Teleprompting for a CEO in a jam
The CEO of Kaiser Permanente is sitting in the TV studio, reading from our camera mount teleprompter. Three takes later, he’s off to catch an important flight. What you don’t know is that he was kept waiting for hours while another company’s teleprompter repeatedly failed. And, once they developed a work-around, their teleprompting software failed.…
Being a teleprompter operator for Barack Obama
[Then] Senator Barack Obama walks up to the lectern at an election rally in 2008. He delivers his speech with grace, power, and emotion. He reads off our outdoor presidential teleprompter while giving numerous ad libs to the crowd. Obama’s teleprompter is only for key reminders, since he knows his message by heart. What the…