Dallas Prompter

When I started Dallas Prompter (back in the mid-80's), I numbered my first invoice with 1000. Since then I've been working my way through four digit numbers and I'm on the verge of having used them all. I just wrote invoice number 9989. Ten more and I'll hit a five digit milestone. How about that?

Last week, we demonstrated our iPad prompter on a Wooden Camera shoulder mount system. It was nice to have a Canon C300 to work with. Many thanks to my friends at AMS Pictures for their help. (And for taking this picture!)

A wide angle lens on a jib arm gives you some interesting effects: the camera seems higher and a small set looks enormous. However, a wide lens will vignette when paired with a standard prompter.

This week we solved that problem by attaching our prompter monitor to the arm, and it's working well.

Do you have a story about a prompter on a jib? We'd like to hear about it.