Maker
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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