How useful is an Autocue / Teleprompter?
From our experience – very useful. Yes it costs more to have a teleprompter on your shooting day – it costs much more to keep restarting shots because the talent can’t remember their lines. A teleprompter’s usefulness depends on how complex your script is and how important it is that it be word-perfect. The person on–camera often has enough to deal with when concentrating on giving an excellent performance; without having to remember long lines of material. When the person on–camera is a novice, often the case in corporate and web video – you need to give them as much help as possible. A shoot is going to hinge on the performance in-front of camera so to use or not use a teleprompter is a judgement/cost call you’ll need to make.
