1. Pre-Read the Script

The Director should always give you a pre-read of the script on the teleprompter during the rehearsal.

Sometimes you find that words that usually go together on one line are split up over two lines to help readability. Occasionally the opposite helps.

On a written page, you are normally reading 8-15 words per line, but with this medium you’ll be reading 3-5 words per line.

It’s a different rhythm and requires getting used to . . . it’s your autocue operator’s job to help you with readability options.

2. Keep to your own speed

An experienced teleprompter operator will react to your talking speed, changing the scroll speed to keep up with your reading speed. Speed up your delivery and the teleprompter go faster. Slow down and the teleprompter slows downs with you.

3. Maintain Eye Contact

Easier said than done, this needs practice and will probably need a few takes to get spot on.

Until the Director tell you anything different, before the take starts, during the take and after it finishes, just keep looking straight into the camera. That is of course unless you’ve mastered the technique.

Eye movements are more important, the closer the shot is. Eye movements away from your audience will make you look either uneasy or slightly dishonest. The only time you can really look away from the screen is when the Director says ‘cut’.

Most people won’t even know they are looking away from the camera. Turn away during a script edit point and the shot will have to be re-done.

It’s ok to blink though!

4. Don’t Rock

Even when standing still, people usually move from side to side or shuffle their feet positions. This is a completely normal reaction but one best left out of a shoot.

Swaying from side to side makes you look uneasy, which you probably are if you’re rocking about.

It’s a bit like the eye contact and body movement discussed earlier on. Animated gestures during a shoot are fine as part of our communication is based on movement. Awkward looking swaying or shuffling aren’t.

At the start of a take, shake the fidgety off. Stretch, run on the spot, jump up and down. Anything to shake off the lethargy and fatigue. Begin each take mentally and physically prepared.

If the warm up still won’t keep you still, ask for a pedestal to rest one foot on or even make your presentation sitting down.

5. Sell the message

This may sound a bit cheesy, but don’t just read your message . . . value the script!

Delivering the script could well make you so drowsy, your face starts to look like it’s going to sleep.

If you yourself look bored with the presentation, imagine how your audience will be feeling. Get upbeat about the project. You might not like the script or even agree with it, but you have to put on a convincing presentation. Vary the stress of your voice, use gestures, get involved. Practice in front of a mirror if you have to but by all means try not to look bored with the whole business!

Your script has all the information you need and it’s written so that the message is understandable. Now . . . let your audience SEE how valuable it is.

Looking Back

So you’ve finished your recording and it’s time to see the finished product.

The first thing you’ll confront when viewing the tape is vanity. Don’t worry . . . it happens to everybody.

You might think you sound strange. You might think you look weird. The reason for this impression is simple . . . you are used to seeing a reflected view of yourself as opposed to how everyone actually sees you. Seeing your left side where your right side usually appears and vice versa is odd.

Some camera angles can also distort your appearance. You might trick yourself into believing you look unwell or have put on weight.

Becoming a polished presenter means casting a critical eye back over your performance. Critical but not negative. Assess your presentation and address any awkward habits or mannerisms.

Don’t go over your presentation looking for details. The objective is a sincere delivery.

The eyes rarely lie. Is you attention focused on the teleprompter texts, are you making a monotonous, boring performance? Are you shuffling around? Are you dropping your eyes?

It’s all about getting an appreciation of your own performance. Most importantly, do you look like you believe what you are saying?

Leaders from all walks of life recognize the importance of an effective communication style delivered in a sincere, personal style, but public speaking remains a hurdle for many of us however.

This article is intended to acquaint you with the intricacies of video production and the use of a teleprompter. You will have to do some groundwork, but if you stick to the advice in this article, when the big day arrives you’ll be better armed to concentrate on delivering a sincere, professional presentation.

When you are ready to bring your presentation in-house, using professional teleprompter software can really help. You can find a teleprompter software demo now on YouTube.

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Often businesses think that the cost of high quality website design will be too expensive. While more and more business owners are gaining a clearer understanding of a good website and its advantages, to a lot of people it just appears too expensive and complex an option. However, it is feasible to design and develop a quality unique website from as little as a few hundred pounds. This can pay for itself time and time again in the increased sales revenue that it can produce for the business.

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The aim of this guide is to give you some top tips for getting great pictures. Big cats have a personality all of their own and each breed is quite different. This will affect how you photograph each species of cat. For instance some are quick and move rapidly, others will sit and take a more leisurely approach. This guide is set out into sections so you can dip into the bits most relevant to you.

So what do we mean by Big Cats, lets start with the rarest cats in the world, The Russian Amur Leopard, around 150 in captivity and only 30 in the wild, then we have the Snow Leopard, now only found in the inaccessible hills in Pakistan. On the Tiger front you have the Sumatran Tiger, then the Amur Tiger as it now know but better known as the Siberian Tiger. Then there are Lynx, Lion, Cheetah, Serval and Puma also known as the Mountain Lion or Cougar – they are all the same cat.

First of all don’t be fooled into thinking that you need a top of the range film or digital SLR camera and lenses to get great pictures. You don’t. Both compact and the intermediate bridge cameras are more than adequate of capturing great images. Many photographers that have come on Big Cat Photo Experience Day have started with a compact camera and found that they can get amazing images. They have returned and some have even found that they got so much more from photography than they ever thought they could. Others just come and enjoy the close contact with such magical animals.

This guide is based upon many years as a professional photographer capturing some of the rarest cats in the world , all kept within a private collection for breeding purposes with the aim that they are returned to the wild, so long as the human race hasn’t destroyed the original habitat. For the Sumatran Tiger, that I fear is a rare hope, but with new cubs born late 2008 there is a glimmer of hope.

Compacts and Bridge Cameras

The real advantage of these cameras is their size. Being small and compact they fit through the wire of the cage so that’s one less thing to worry about. All you do need to do is watch what the cats are doing so they don’t take your camera off you! And trust me if they get hold of it they will win – no negotiation!

Captive animals are quite inquisitive so you will find they get too close. Key settings would be either close up / macro or a sports mode if you are using pre-set shooting modes. More advanced cameras have Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority and Full Manual. If you are more comfortable with these settings then please read the sections underFilm and Digital SLRs as the same rules apply.

One main drawback of these cameras is what is called “shutter lag”. This is the time the camera takes to fire the shutter and capture the image after you press the shutter release . On slow moving subjects this won’t be so much of a problem, but on fast moving or erratic moving subjects this is where this will be noticed. You aim at the head and the camera takes a picture of the tail!

ISO – Film Speed or Sensor Sensitivity

The speed of your film or sensor sensitivity as it’s really called on a DSLR will affect the camera settings in a given light. A typical sunny day will let you shoot on ISO 100 or 200, being the base setting of your camera depending upon the make of camera or film you’re using. With a DSLR you have the ability to change your ISO or sensor sensitivity as the light changes, so you can go up and down from 100 to 200 or 400 (or more) as the light changes. With film you are fixed per roll. OK you can “bump it” up or down but only if your film developer knows what they are doing, automated developing just won’t hack it and will leave you with a ruined roll of film. As a commercial photographer I shoot digital and enjoy it – when all the technology works of course!

Using a second body is an option if you can afford it as it gives you another lens to shoot from or another roll of film different from the first body. Lenses or course are interchangeable.

With speed or sensitivity comes a compromise – noise . The higher the ISO the more noise or grain there will be. But, and a big but, under exposure will create more noise than high ISO – so make sure the shot is exposed correctly. Being a commercial photographer amongst other things, I shoot using Nikon cameras and with these I have to shoot slightly over exposed to get the shot right – Nikon metering seems to be slightly on the safe side in my experience.

White Balance

This is not an easy function to explain but it comes down to the colour of light. What I hear you say, but all light looks the same to me, yes it will, the human eye and brain is very clever, it shows you a white subject as white in any light so you can’t actually see what your camera sees.

Until that is you take a picture indoors, ever had a picture on a digital or film camera come out green ? Light is measured as a temperature similar to that of heating a metal rod in a flame. The colour moves from orange to white and finally blue. Now this isn’t measured in degrees C or F but in the wider scientific range called Kelvin. Digital cameras use this Kelvin number to determine the colour of light.

For example Orange is at the warmer end or 3400K the same as a household bulb with a tungsten filament, also known as incandescent- day light and studio flash is around 5200K to 5600K and fluorescent light is a real nightmare depending upon the type of tube and colour temperatures vary from 2700K up to 7200K – so pretty much the whole spectrum.
Tip – on a dull grey day use the pre set white balance of Flash – it gives a slightly warmer shot.

Tip – don’t use Auto white balance for two reasons. While it might be fairly accurate light is not a fixed entity it changes all the time and so too will your cameras setting for White Balance when on Auto. Secondly if you then go on and edit your images you have the potential for having to manually correct each image if you’re not happy with the setting. And on a Big Cat Day guests regularly shoot 400 to 600 images – now that’s a lot of time chained to your computer.

Tip – pick a pre-set value, even if its not correct , some cameras allow fine tuning warmer or cooler. If then you want to edit the images at least you can batch process all the images in one go as the White Balance value will be the same – so too will be the adjustment. Just shoot RAW, then you can correct it, Jpeg gives you less control.

Tip – try taking a custom white balance measurement if your camera has this setting .

Tip – remember a Snow leopard is Grey and White – it should not be cream.

Film and Digital SLRs

Camera bodies vary in design and my view is that megapixels aren’t the be all and end all of quality images. As an example a 6 mega pixel camera will get a great image, in fact many press photographers still use a high quality, robust 4 mega pixel digital camera body. Why, because other functions are come into play.

Whereas the norm for many manufacturers is now, at the time of writing this Big Cats guide, is to offer 10 – 12 mega pixel camera bodies, other key features come into play.

Autofocus – General

AF-S , AF-C or Manual, Single point, Multipoint Dynamic or Closest Subject? AF-S will give you a setting that shoots only when the subject is in focus. AF-C gives you a continuous mode where by the AF systems tracks the subject adjusting focus all the time you have the shutter release pressed half way down and the focus point on the moving subject. This is good for fast / moving subjects, the shutter will however fire even if the shot is not in focus. 3D tracking found on Nikon cameras is good for some subjects as it tries to work out where the subject will be if it leaves the focus area or frame – try it and see how you get on, you may find you come back to a dynamic – movable – focus point chosen by the photographer – you!

Manual focus gives you more control but chasing a moving subject is difficult and takes time to practice.

Metering

Spot, centre weighted or matrix or average? The main problem with Matrix is that it takes an average setting across the whole frame so you can end up with a poorly exposed image especially if you catch some sky in the frame. This being brighter, normally, makes the camera close down the settings, leading to an under exposed subject.

For best results with cats I find centre weighted works best as the camera metres from the centre of the frame and this is normally where the subject matter will be.

Spot metering would be best used for a close head shot where the cat is stationary being sat or lying down, as you’d find with the Lions in the afternoon after they are fed.

Part two continues with more settings and equipment discussions as well as common mistakes.

The main duty of notary publics is to validate that the individual parties to an agreement are who they claim to be. The State may experience a loss if the notary forgets to properly confirm the identity of the parties.

As a public official, the notary public causes harm to the public trust by failing in their responsibility to confirm identity. If a Hawaii notary public doesn’t confirm identity and a loss occurs, an injured party can file a claim against that State for the loss, because the State was negligent through its appointed representative.

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You may be familiar with a home insurance policy. If a person has a homeowners insurance in Indiana claim, the insurance carrier pays the loss and writes off the loss. You aren’t required to reimburse the company for the loss. Unlike a property insurance policy however, a notary bond is simply a guarantee that the funds will be available when losses occur. The surety (insurance company) makes a payment to the State up to the penalty amount of the bond. However, this claim paid by the company is not simply written off. The company will most likely seek reimbursement from the bonded party, the notary themself.

A notary bond protects the public. Who protects the notary? Insurance coverage is available to provide this protection – it’s called Notary Public E & O and may also be obtained for a nominal fee from insurance carriers.

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The 1st thing you need to do is pick the networks you want to join. That is right — you’re going to join more than one. That is because there are likely a large variety of offers you want to pick from on the numerous CPA networks. Something that is available on one CPA network might not be available on another network. Also, you should pay careful attention to offers that are available in more than one CPA network. That is because the commission may not always the same! You might find that the same exact offer pays quite a bit less on another network.

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Many networks are a little bit more difficult to get accepted into. When that happens to you, you might want to lay out the marketing plan you have developed to promote their offers. Often laying out a solid business plan will help get you accepted!

As a last tactic, you can get a hold of a successful CPA marketer so they can put in a good word for you. Normally it does not come to this, however it never hurts to make these kind of contacts so you can make use of them if necessary in the future.

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Moody’s and S&P, and most Americans, have yet to realize the concept of Real Interest rates, rather than Nominal Interest rates, which is a misleading pricing scheme. It misleads people into thinking that they are receiving significantly more "interest" than they really are. In Brazil that would be a crime of false advertising.

During the last twenty years, Brazil always had the ability to pay the Real Interest rate of its obligations, plus an extra for amortization. It never deserved the rating of "questionable ability to pay".

Now a Brazilian Rating Company has used the argument against the US Treasuries. Because they are not indexed to inflation "there is a questionable doubt that investor’s will receive the true value of their investment, due to future US inflation".

For 30 year treasuries, where a 4% inflation will erode principal by 50% at least, a double CC would have been more appropriate. But that would have seemed too much of a penalty.

But it is about time Americans realize that Nominal Interest Rates is a form of false advertising, bad pricing model, since part of that interest is inflation, not interest. And inflation is not income by any means.

That is one the reason’s of the sub-prime crisis. Forcing poor people to pay "inflated interest rates" in the beginning of their life cycle, and paying totally eroded principal 30 years down the line.

Meanwhile inflation in Brazil is under control and Brazil today provides the highest real interest rate in the world which makes it a very interesting market for investments in and high yield bonds.

A CIC hearing aid is a device that goes completely in the canal. You could be talking to somebody right next to you that is wearing one and would not grasp the difference. These devices are typically molded individually to fit perfectly into the canal and can be quite expensive. The downfall is that they can not be worn by people that have significant hearing loss because of the tiny amplifier that is used.

One step up from that is the ITC or in the canal hearing aid. Whereas folks can see these, they are really going to have to look to notice. They’re slightly larger than the CIC, but still don’t supply enough amplification for individuals that have significant hearing loss.

An ITE or in the ear is still a hearing aid that can be considered “covert,” but it’s considerably larger than either of the other two and is capable of better amplification. Of the three devices that are actually rooted in the ear canal, this is far and away the better to handle and hearing losses of all levels should be able to use this type.

The largest and final sort of hearing aid is the BTE or behind the ear. This almost looks like a Bluetooth device and has a holder that wraps round the ear. They are fairly large compared to the other devices and offer the most effective amplification of any of the four types. For children, this can be the ideal choice.

Choosing the correct hearing aid sometimes comes all the way down to a matter of preference and hearing loss. Whereas people who have mild hearing loss will have additional choices, even the most significantly hearing impaired can have quite a bit of selection to choose from. Give them a try and see which one works best.

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