Building work on the new Studio finished on 24 June 2011 at 15:05! A few days later the lighting grid was in place and we were ready to start the fun bit, installing the equipment.
The first lighting installation was the starting point. This is not even half of what we are planning to install, luckily the grid will take a lot of weight. The initial lighting consists of: 6 DMX controlled LED PAR lights are to provide colour accenting to the sets, 2 compact fluorescent Flolight 220s and a Photon Beard Highlight 120 will provide Key and Fill lighting, with a Flolight LED 500 as a back light.
The control desk will also double as a ‘set’ for some videos. Where possible we are installing equipment into the 19″ rack. So far: DMX lighting controller, PC 1 (of 2), Blackmagic ATEM 1 switcher, Cyberpower UPS. Leaving room for amplifier, scalers and more.
The Behringer sound mixer will be replaced by a Presonus 16.4.2 shortly.
There will be three main sets – The Bar, the desk and a green screen.
Cameras will be mounted on aluminium tube dropped from the lighting grid, with Manfrotto superclamps and mounts to enable rapid repositioning as required. We are starting with 4 Canon cameras – 1 XA10 and 3 HF G10s, and a small Sony HD cameras to be mounted on a pan/tilt head on the grid for deskshots.
A couple of people have asked why in posts I frequently say ‘we’ are doing this or that when all they see is me. Well there are several people involved in TTFN TV and to ignore them would be rude! These include Peter, our occasional producer, who can be seen in a couple of the shots above.
‘The Bar’ complete with stools:
Have shot some ‘quick and dirty’ video of the setup and hope to get this on the website shortly.
We expect to start using the studio on a regular basis from early August.
Mark
Michael Manna
Good lord….