Savage Theater Arts Building TV Control Room
Extreme Makeover:
Savage Building Television Control Room
Communication students in the broadcast program are learning their profession on the department's newly renovated full digital television control room. The $300,000 technology makeover, which meets the new Federal Communications Commission's Advanced Television Systems Committee's 2009 standards, was completed over the summer and fall of last year.
Kara Beaudette checks video tape playback decks for BSC-TV's "Campus After Dark" show
The new control area features a Grass Valley digital switcher. LCD display panels show individual cameras, the TelePrompTer and the Deko graphics generator. The new LCD displays have significantly reduced the level of heat emitted from the equipment. Here, Kara and Mike Dicioccio, director of Campus After Dark, take the controls in Professor Paul DeWald's Com 388 practicum class, which produces and directs the show on campus cable 2.
COM 388 functions as an on-campus internship, where students from one discipline get a chance to collaborate with those from the others needed to produce a television show. Here, producer Ashley Snowden, in the left foreground, and graphics operator Christine Mazza, in the right foreground, work on the show with producers, directors, on-camera talent and production personnel.
The new audio production console is put through its paces under the steady hands and ears of Jordan Wolf.
Campus After Dark floor director Mike Miller adjusts a microphone for the show's guest, Tom Renzi, Academic Skills Center coordinator.
Tom Renzi and host John Lascala.
Camera operators Andy Rozak, on the left, and Nicholas Sterlace, on the right, operate the department's new digital 16:9 format cameras, which feed directly to the video switcher and display on the control room's LCD console
After the show, the entire production staff gathers for a post-production meeting. Although television shows require technologically advanced equipment to produce, successful, dynamic shows also require a team of people working as an ensemble - a hallmark of the broadcast program at Buffalo State.
The empty control room.