How to Read a Teleprompter without Looking Creepy

Tips and tricks to make teleprompter reading more organic & natural looking to disguise eye movements and hide the fact that you're reading.

Tips and tricks to make teleprompter reading more organic & natural looking to disguise eye movements and hide the fact that you're reading.

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0:00 - Intro & Gear List
1:03 - Hide Your Reading
2:06 - Script Writing & Practicing
3:03 - Teleprompter Benefits
4:25 - Adding Emotion & Tone

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[chrisbrockhurst]

This is a masterclass example of demoing a product whilst reviewing it and teaching all at the same time. 👏🏼

[DavesGarage]

I've got autism, and this is a pro masking course. I had to learn all these things for my own channel by trial and error, and wish I'd known them sooner. My old videos are positively cringey compared to the smooth and slick productions I put on now! :-). Thanks for this great summary of what to do! - Dave's Garage

[NikHem]

Seriously impressed that you were using a teleprompter all this time and still WHILE I’m seeing you read that script it just sounds like your own words and as if the text was just a transcript. Incredible.

[JSLReview]

You made this look so easy man, networks should be scouting you as their future news anchor💯

[ogonzilla]

Holy crap, you're so good at this!! Makes me slightly rethink the "wing it" strategy. lol

[joeniedbala]

A peek behind the curtain. And I think that the thing to stress is that this is PROFESSIONALISM, not faking it. It's conveying information with clarity. When done RIGHT, nothing is a put on, just a refined version of the person presenting.

[Drones]

This is great Gerald. You are one of the people that I have used as an example for myself to get better at natural teleprompter videos. This will help so many people!

[ChutneyCity]

I think this is one of the underrated part of being a YouTuber: the performance aspect, even when one is not performing in the artistic sense (acting, singing or dancing)

[LukeBarousse]

I think you just convinced me to get a teleprompter! 🙌🏼

Currently, I try to memorize a line for my script and then fumble over that line multiple times until I get it right.... 10 min videos usually take me over an hour to shoot 🤦🏼‍♂

[SashaYanshin]

Absolutely love using a teleprompter - I found I could fit in approximately 50% more useful content into the same amount of time with a teleprompter compared to before I started using it. A game changer.
Also - thanks for everything you do Gerald. I completely binge watched your channel when I was first starting mine!

[mateovisbal]

Your ad reads are so smart. You use them went testing mics or pre amps, and you used them to show an example of how you read ad reads. genius

[BenPatrik]

This is one of the most useful videos I’ve seen in weeks. You were already breaking the fourth wall by looking into the camera, but I think you broke the fifth in this video 😂 the way you explained your process is so meta. I hadn’t even considered a teleprompter before and you convinced me in 5 and a half minutes that I have to have one.
I thought you were just an eloquent speaker before today. I guess the best speakers don’t speak, they read.

[izzynobre]

Brilliant. I picked up these skills after years of using my prompter (same as yours, btw), and I wish I had a video like this years ago when I started! Could've cut my awkward videos by half 😂😂

[tombuck]

These are really awesome tips! Love the very accurate portrayal of someone being transfixed with the prompter 😬

[TonyRush]

You know, I have ALWAYs wondered how in the world you could flow so seamlessy in the knowledge of whatever topic you were presenting. LOL...You are something else. Your execution of reading from a teleprompter is FLAWLESS!!

[MonthsLater]

Had no idea you were using one. Well done and thanks for another fantastic video!

[AmjadMuhammad]

I was thinking the other day of how concise, quick and crisp your communication was and how you always manage to compress extremely technical subjects in relatively short and engaging youtube videos. It takes a lot of skills to be one of the best in a field, and you certainly are. All the love from Syria 👏

[BimoNuksmo]

Now this is NOT "just a YouTuber reading manual book for you".
Thank you Gerald for keeping being awesome, informative and friendly.

[donttellhimpike]

GU is the best I have seen using a teleprompter. But, honestly, I wouldn't have known until he told us!

Having just wanted a bunch of How to Use a Teleprompter videos, they ALL looked like they were reading. Something didn't quite feel authentic.

If there was an Olympic medal for this, Gerald is going for gold! He looks away, pauses, seems to be gathering thoughts. Masterclass.

[brianmillerspeaks]

This is the video I've been meaning to make, and now I don't have to!

So many of my clients - as a speaking coach for TEDx speakers and leaders - have asked me how I remember all my scripts, and when they find out I use a teleprompter they freak out because it seems too natural. I've been asked over and over to share my tips, but here you've really nailed it.

I'll be sharing this video with all of my clients and network.

Thanks Gerald.