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CANDID CAMERAS: Two handheld HD cameras close in on Maker Workshop host John Park.

24 Hours of Make: Television

Building a TV show is a project in itself. By Dale Dougherty

It’s already late on a Sunday in September in

St. Paul, Minn. In the studios of Twin Cities Public

Television (TPT), there are ten people working on Make: television, a new PBS show that will be Get Me Rewrite a companion to this magazine. Bill Gurstelle is weary, and I can tell he just wants The set is a workshop, within a larger workshop the day to end. A contributing editor to MAKE, Bill normally used for set construction. The team is is the technical consultant for the show. He’s taken shooting a build for Maker Workshop, the segment projects from the magazine and designed builds that shows viewers how to make something in each that can be demonstrated in the allotted time of episode. It’s important to get this segment right. It’s just seven minutes. like demonstrating a recipe on a cooking show, but Bill grabs a box of parts and places it on the work-the ingredients and the process are more technical. bench. It’s the Pole Cam project featured on page

On the edge of the set are two plasma screens, 108 of this volume, a close cousin of our very first one for each of the handheld HD cameras. One magazine project, Kite Aerial Photography. With of them displays a timecode: 15:40:31:01 and this rig atop a tall pole, you can capture unusual

Photography by Matt Blum

running. The process of making video is all about managing time.

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