Getting Good Audio: Of course you can always purchase excellent quality microphones, but the Little Prompter is designed to work with your existing microphone—either your device’s onboard mic or the one you attach separately.
Regardless of the microphone you use, your focus is to eliminate background noise as much as possible. This means finding a quiet location to record, turn off fans or other noisy appliances, and be aware of the hums of air-conditioners. In life, we tend to tune those sounds out without even noticing, but on video those background hums and hisses can be very distracting.
In the rare case where your onboard microphone is entirely covered by the Little Prompter—which happens with just a few device models—you may want to purchase a good quality USB mic, too, but give the Little Prompter a test run first.
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Dann is Carleton College's Media and Design Specialist, where he works directly with faculty to develop digital instructional tools that meet their pedagogical needs. He has an MFA in Digital Cinema, a BSED in English and Theatre Education from the University of South Dakota, and a certificate in Online Education from UW Stout. Prior to joining Carleton's staff, he taught communication, theatre, and video production for approximately 15 years while working as a professional actor and director--appearing in over forty national and regional commercials and directing and editing dozens of videos and musicals.
Dann’s MFA thesis project involved writing and directing an original, full-length musical, filming the entire development and production process, and editing it into an educational DVD entitled How to Write and Produce Your Own High School Musical. His DVD is currently being distributed by Films Media Group.
His focus in education has been developing effective lessons, studying the psychological impact of directorial choices within films, and engaging in the relationships that make education most powerful. His most recent endeavor is as the developer of the Little Prompter, a small teleprompter designed to help instructors easily create video for online delivery.
Dann has also presented at various national and regional educational conferences and is glad to have joined Carleton in 2014.
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