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Once you get in them, you find it is difficult to leave. And so you end up spending a lot of time in them. Not that you mind. You do have to change your perspective from time to time, however.
This is the view over the director’s shoulder:
They were shooting a talk show. It is a little slow at times, but it is a brand new show trying to find its voice. Slow isn’t always bad. Anyway, this is the third episode. You can see it here:
Sometimes we do a news show in the morning.
Which reminded me of the five-plus years I did morning shows. They were much earlier than this, but I still had to get up early enough to be here, so that somehow counts.
This was actually a re-shoot. And a valuable lesson was learned, just as it should be, in the friendly and forgiving confines of a learning laboratory. Which means we had a good sized crew back in the studio first thing on a Friday morning for a show we’d already tried to do once.
Later in the day we spent some time in one of our fantabulous new production studios:
The engineer is the lady on the left, and she’s presiding over a software teleconference. This is going to be a radio booth, production studio and a place we do podcasts in. We’ve got a few nice production set ups on the new building. Guess that means we’ll have to produce a lot.
Hanging out with the ladies doing the hip and happening show:
You can watch the show right here. This is episode four, and we’re learning a lot in a hurry.
(They’re probably learning faster than I am.)
I’ve shown you a bit of the television studio and control room that they’ve built in the new Media School building. I should also mention this fine little radio production booth:
It has windows on three sides, so it can be a fishbowl broadcast studio, and a podcast and production booth. There is an adjoining production booth on the other side of one of the windows. And still more of editing bays and production rooms being finished downstairs. This is one incredible facility IU has here. And they let me play with all the fancy toys in these rooms. It is a pretty charmed thing, really.
And tonight, we were back in the television studio. We do sports shows on Wednesday and Thursday. But on Tuesdays we do a news show and a pop culture, fashion, what’s happening kind of show. I’m sitting in a control room full of talented young people, and there’s plenty more talent in the studio next door:
Here’s that show now:
There has been a Star Trek exhibit at one of the campus museums. As far as I can tell there might be 16 museums and galleries on this one campus. This was at Lilly, the acclaimed rare book library. The experts there house more than 400,000 books, more than seven million manuscripts, 100,000 pieces of sheet music and, right now, a small Star Trek exhibit.
Being the last few days, these were on display, I had to stop by.
Please note the date. This is a 1964 treatment of the original Trek, with Gene Rodenberry’s name across the top:
This means that staple has been in place for more than 52 years. Incredible.
Also, look at the example episode descriptions. Some seem familiar. Some read like obvious early drafts of old favorites. And one just might have been altogether forgotten, fortunately.
One of the classics, the Trouble With Tribbles, which was written by David Gerrold:
Side note, the tribble episode might be one of the last of the original series I ever managed to catch. Famous as it was, I never saw it on television.
This is from another classic episode, Amok Time, written by the great Theodore Sturgeon:
And, oh look, something like tri-ox is actually a medical reality now.
And just over from the the script for the famous third act sick bay scene was this handsome cover:
It was a small exhibit, and mostly script-based items of the above sort. But it was worth walking a few blocks on a warm autumn day to see. And, by the door, someone had filled a display case with action figures:
I’m pretty sure that they just wanted to show off their Gorn.
