 Hello and welcome to LPM 101 video on the Glide Glass Teleprompter Kit that we have here at LaMauN Public Media available in use at the studio here or for you to rent and check out and use it at a production at home, you know, at a business or whatever you'd like. So just quick little class and tutorial on how to use this, how to put it together and let's get started. So as you can see, it comes in this black and yellow bag, it's pretty small. When you go to open it, you'll notice that it comes, this is what it looks like on the inside. So it's got one of these and this is what is used to cover the back of the teleprompter kit so that there is no light reflected onto the teleprompter so that you can actually see what you want to read. The actual teleprompter looks like this. So the first thing you'll notice is on the left and right side there's these two little silver screws. So to set up your teleprompter, what you'll need to do is you take these out and as you'll now see it's a little loose and on the left and right side right in here you can see that there are additional holes for you to use the screws in. So let's go ahead and do that. So there's one on the right side and you'll use those same metal screws. So there's one and then just line it up for the other side and there we go. So you just want to make sure that it's heightened and then that way you have a nice 45 degree angle for the teleprompter screen of your choice and that's where this will, that's where the screen will go is right here. So let's just kind of show you how to put that together. So I do have a stand here and let me just kind of extend the legs and I'm going to take this base plate off of the VT, the Magnus VT300 which is a stand that we have here at LPM and again you can check out and use at home in a business or wherever you like just check out our equipment rental store online at our website at lmlpkme.org. So what you'll do is at the bottom of this base plate you'll see that there are two inserts here so you want to get that screw on the base plate and just align it and there is an end for it. So here's, I'm just going to go ahead and tighten that up. So now the base plate is attached to the bottom of this and I'm just going to go ahead and attach it to our tripod and there you go. So now it's attached to the tripod like so and again you can move it obviously that's just the tripod. So the next thing you'll want to do is let's say you have a teleprompter device of your choice you can use a phone. We personally like to use iPads here and again you can check these out as part of yeah just the equipment you can use at LPM. So we'll just open up one of the teleprompter apps that we have. There's a couple that you can use the one that we tend to like to use is either prompt smart pro but there is a bunch of them that you can use. So anyway what you'll want to do is obviously load up the app you know on the teleprompter. I'm just going to pick one. So then what you'll do and this is again using this part of it right here is this will hold the device. So for an iPad you just kind of slide it in here and then put it you know make sure the end is quite snug and is able to hold the the device in place and then assuming that you had you know you definitely will need a camera you can either put a phone or one of the lumixes or any other type of camera you want to put it on this side of the glass. So using kind of my phone as a reference you're going to want to put it like this that way obviously the lens is pointing up this way and you're able to capture what it is coming out. So once you have the device there you're going to want to use this guy to cover it. So I like to kind of put this string kind of around the base here and then it has velcro all the way around the top. So then just kind of make it nice and snug and you can also tighten this and again make sure that you know you're trying to not let in as much light as possible. So now you can see the reflection of the iPad onto the glass which is how the teleprompter works. So what we would do here is make sure that it's mirrored correctly horizontally so that you can you know as it scrolls and I'm here just hoping that you can see this but as you know as the the script that you have prepared you know goes you're able to read it. The other thing to keep in mind too is make sure that you set the margins to correctly match the glass otherwise you're going to have some text that runs off and you're not really going to be able to see it. And that's just yeah that's a quick little class and tutorial on how to use this teleprompter set to tear it down. I would just take the iPad out or again whatever teleprompter device of your choice take off the velcro cover and then take these this bottom base and just make sure that it's all the way forward that way when you take these screws off that it has something for it to lean on like so. So I just kind of take these again take these screws off like so kind of hold it so it doesn't fall on you and break the glass and then just move this forward a little bit and just kind of gently lay down and then I put these screws back on the side where they were just so that we don't lose them and then you'll want to grab your bag make sure the faceplate goes back put it back in the bag like so put this guy kind of cover it like this put it on top cover it and that's it so we hope you enjoy this 101. If you'd like to come and use the teleprompter please swing by LPM and check it out yourself or if you want to use it at home please check out our equipment rental store just for more information check out lohmpublicmediate.org. Hope to see you next time thanks for watching.