I just built my own teleprompter last week for a big shoot. Worked great, and the client was VERY impressed that we had a portable telepromter. I used a small DVD player and a 13″ tv/monitor, a 14″ piece of glass and some wood. The whole thing cost less than $80. I made a VCD-format slide show of pages for the talent to read. There were 40 pages, but an assistant off-camera was able to change the pages via remote-control, while reading along with the script. It worked amazingly well, and now my teleprompter is for rent! I’ll be happy to forward the VERY simple plans to anyone interested.
davem@impro.biz