Three different trips into the television studio today. One for a simple Q&A recording, then students had their morning show, of course. That episode will come out … sometime between now and then. I think they’re still honing in on their editing system. Somewhere right in there I had to duck into an audio booth, because sometimes you’re asked to deliver all of the finer points of audio production in under half-an-hour.
(You can’t deliver all of the finer points of audio production in under half-an-hour. But I can give you some of them. So you get some, and I will hope they are the right ones and enough.)
After that, Jonathan Banks — of Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and Airplane! among others — stopped by to talk about acting. It’s a program they call “Expert Workshop” and it does get great experts. I’m assuming this one will wind up online at some point. Most of them do. Aside from the famous name, this one was special in that it was entirely student produced, which is something I first suggested three years ago, and we’ve been working slowly toward ever since.
I see students produce programs every week as a part of the student television station, for example. There’s no reason other students couldn’t be producing for classroom projects or special events such as the Banks visit.
Here are the two shows the sports side of the student television station produced last night, in fact. First, the show with all the highlights and updates you need:
The Award-WinningTM sports crew also put together this talk show. New host, new hijinks, same fun:
An interesting thing happens every year. They start off and they build a little momentum, and then there’s an episode or two where they struggle with this or that, or a key piece of gear goes on the blip, throwing a wrench into things. Then they bounce back and find a groove they’ll hold all year. That might have been last night. And despite that sort of thing, they still put together two nice little shows. which means that in a week or two they’ll really be rolling.
And you? How are you? Are you rolling into your weekend yet? You should be. Get to it.
