[Santiago Pilgrim]

Thank you for kindly pointing out the obvious error, I traced it back to when I separated the layers in Photoshop, the circles were not centered… Doh! Thanks 🙂

[Santiago Pilgrim]

Thanks, Bob.

That’s fine, I was going to charge them for the drive.

But surely I should also be charging them for keeping the hard drive on my shelf?

That’s where I thought a monthly fee would come in – maybe not per GB as that just means a bigger hard drive which they would have already paid for, but a monthly fee for storing the hard drive I think makes sense… just not sure how much is reasonable.

Santiago.

[Santiago Pilgrim]

Thanks all.

Some sound advice as expected.

I am going to hire a sound recordist and put a G3 wireless on each speaker hooked up to a mixer.

I think that’s the most professional solution.

Thanks again!

Santiago

[Santiago Pilgrim]

I’ve just spotted the PZMs on the tables…

Still, any suggestions as to the best possible results for this shoot would be great.

Thanks.

[Santiago Pilgrim]

Hi Derek,

Thanks for your time in relying to this, much appreciated.

Using the wide shot as the ‘slightly off’ angle sounds a good idea.

For this shoot however the scripts are very simple and the presenter is very good, so I want to try and change lenses and use both the wide and close with the teleprompter.

Would you recommend shooting the whole script on close then shooting it again on wide or splitting the script into paragraphs and changing lenses as we go along? I think I will try both just in case but any advise from your wealth of experience would be fantastic.

Santiago.

[Santiago Pilgrim]

Great! Thank you – it’s nice to know the ‘proper’ way. Yes I autocue=teleprompter.

[Santiago Pilgrim]

Thanks Mark, I’m glad you took your time to reply.

After researching the software further and then coming back to see your reply you’ve actually convinced me. There’s no point in paying for a piece of software that’s going to automate my productions and make them the same as everyone else using this software. While it may be ‘easier’, you made an excellent point – and one which I am finding truly affects our field – people often don’t see the point in video because they’ve had them done cheaply and subsequently they don’t attract interest/people/leads.

The way I think I am going to do this is by importing the slides as image files into Premiere and manually adding them in when required – is that how you would do it?

Thanks, I feel inspired now.

Santiago.

[Santiago Pilgrim]

Thanks for your reply.

While I respect your opinion, I disagree.

This software is great for showing the presentation whilst filming the speaker at the same time, giving viewers both a taste of the interaction of the speaker and the information which may be conveyed through the powerpoint only – IE diagrams etc that the speaker is refering too, thus making the presentation richer.

Certainly in a world of cinematography it makes no sense and looks rubbish, but in a world of business where people would like to see what’s on the slides too, it makes sense. That’s my opinion anyway.

Again though, thank you for your reply!

Santiago