Obama Lecturn Malfunction

Grant's Perspective on ... no one is exempt from AV problems.

It was not too long ago I commented on Obama's teleprompter glass breaking during a news conference. This week the presidential seal fell of the lecturn while he was delivering a public speech.

He handled it well with his "You know who I am" statement but was more telling with his "somebody back there is really nervous right now."





Just another example of whatever can go wrong in a presentation, will go wrong.

There are times when an AV pro can assist in unexpected situations. I recall someone telling me about a situation where a presenter was going to sneeze. It was obvious to eveeryone in the audience that this was going to happen. The presenter continued, then quickly said "Just a moment ..." then blasted out the pending sneeze. The audio operator had turned off the presenter's mic for the sneeze and then had it back on when the presenter said "Excuse me".

The audience turned to the audio tech and applauded his quick thinking and fast action.

Now there is an AV Tech that get's it!


Grant