Interrotron Rental Los Angeles
Interrotron Mark III - $1,195
Interrotron Road Warrior - $1,095
Hollywood Interrotron Rental
delivered with a Professional Operator
The full Hollywood Interrotron Rental Package includes:
A Professional Operator
Two Teleprompter units, one for the talent and one for the director
Ideal for use with young or untrained talent
Director’s Unit:
Full Sized 12″ HD 16 X9 Professional Camera Monitor
HDMI, SDI, HD-SDI, DVI-D, HDSDI
2nd Professional Gold Plate Autocue system
Two sliding camera plates on 15mm rod system
Fits all professional and prosumer cameras
Reversible image capable
Second full-sized tripod
Optical Quality Mirror
All cables, connectors, etc.
Works with all professional and prosumer cameras
Allows two identical full-sized professional cameras (RED, Alexa, etc) to be used to capture complementary images of the talent and director simultaneously
Interrotron Mark III+
Talent Unit:
19″ HD 16X9 Monitor
HDMI not VGA
Optical Quality Mirror
Professional Gold Plate Autocue system
Two sliding camera plates on 15mm rod system
Fits all professional and prosumer cameras
Interrotron Direct Address Issues
With direct-address video and film interviews proliferating, fundamental questions about the nature of encounters they facilitate remain unaddressed. The nature and scope of this design investigation seek to establish and define a more formal investigative process of the technique. By employing techniques of participatory design research within a series of direct-address interviews, I hope to generate insightful responses and reflections about the nature of direct-address-based interviewing:
What does it feel like to be the subject of a direct address video interview?
Does it enable insights and connections for the interviewing participants that are hitherto unavailable using conventional face-to-face techniques?
Does the machine promote a more balanced, level, and egalitarian encounter?
Is the direct address appropriate for all video-recorded situations?
What would subjects, given public access to such a device, make with it?
Does the artifice of the Interrotron allow conversant subjects to leverage their conversation's confrontational quotient without alienating the other?
Do slight variations in hardware orientation facilitate or hinder this leveling?
Likewise, can the device leverage improved listening memory and empathy?
Interrotron Style Direct Gaze and Neurocognition
Recent quantitative studies in the areas of neurocognition reveal deep-seated connections between eye-to-eye communication, and brain activity: 4-month-old human infants prefer to look at faces that engage them in mutual gaze. Neuroscientists have documented marked increases in their brain electric activity when interactions are accompanied by direct gaze (Farroni et al., 2002). Likewise, a 2011 study proposed that a live face with a direct gaze is processed more intensely than a face with averted gaze or closed eyes, as the direct gaze is capable of intensifying the feeling of being the target of the other’s interest and intentions. “Direct gaze elicited greater face-sensitive N170 amplitudes and early posterior negativity potentials than averted gaze or closed eyes, but only in the live condition,” (Pönkänen et al. 2011).
The Interrotron Mark III
The professional Mark III is a dual unit system that allows the director to see the subject and have access to the framing, lighting and color correction.
The Mark III has 16 “X 9 ” video monitors so that the director sees the subject properly composed. Both video monitors on the Mark III are HD.
Simultaneously the directors can have a comfortable, accurate, and productive “one on one” conversation with the subject, while monitoring the technical aspects of the shot.
The talent’s unit is a modified, professional “gold plate” Autocue Teleprompter. It can easily accept Red Dragon, Phantom, Alexa, C300, F35 and most professional cameras on its sliding rod and plate system.
The Interrotron is delivered and operated by a professional technician.
It accepts every type of camera output: HDMI, HD-SDI, Component, and Composite. Each has a “pass-through” for additional monitor access.
The Interrotron can also function as a standard teleprompter and be switched in seconds by the operator.