My experience with Late Night Patriot continues to be overwhelmingly positive.
I am extremely impressed by the quality and dedication that Director Jake McLernon and the rest of the team bring each week to our broadcasts. While we certainly are still undergoing growing pains, every session there is something new and exciting in our studio that makes our little experiment even better.
Personally, the hardest part of giving the “Mason Nation” its weekly source of information (other than getting over my insecurities) has been getting used to the teleprompter. As I previously discussed, we use McLernon’s iPad to slowly scroll through our weekly script. In the beginning, it was difficult matching up my sentences to the pace set by the screen. I found that some words took longer for me to articulate while at other points in the script I needed to take long pauses to make up for my rapid speech.
Thankfully, this is another eccentricity that we’ve overcome!
We are currently capable of syncing the iPad’s teleprompter with McLernon‘s cell phone. As our team continued to grow, it became possible to have a staff member slowly scroll through the text at the pace Britt, Jeremy and I were reading at. This has made me increasingly confident reading the script and allows for a much more natural wordplay.
Rumor has it that we will soon be moving to a new and improved studio, as well.
Stay tuned!
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