On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Bob in Jersey wrote: > WTTG, per Paul Farhi at the WaPo, "intends to train its newscasters to > operate prompters using a series of hand levers and foot pedals, all > while they're reading the news as it scrolls by"...
"A series of hand levers and foot pedals"? An actual technician can operate a prompter with exactly one control, in the form of a handheld dial: "stop" in the middle, "forward" to the right, "back" to the left, variable speed according to how far the dial is turned. In the summer of 1993, I worked as the script coordinator and prompter operator for the hourlong 10:00 newscast on then-independent WTOG in the Tampa Bay area. (It's now a CW affiliate, and no longer has a news department.) I was an unpaid college intern, which shows you how important they felt the prompter operator job was. It was an old- timey prompter, with a camera aimed at a conveyor belt that carried the paper scripts along. Newfangled prompters have the same kind of control -- it's just hooked up to a computer instead of that ridiculous contraption. -- Jim Ellwanger <train...@ellwanger.tv> <http://www.ellwanger.tv> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
