Almost show time

Well here we are, blogging from inside of MTSU's on-site production media truck.  This thing is incredible.  In the far back we have "The Marcs", one being Marc Parrish a professor at MTSU and the other an associate of Marc's, they are cueing past interviews of the students that went to the ARES IX launch a couple of weeks ago. These past interviews will be taped live to the show's footage that will be captured 50 feet or so from the truck.  They are also designing graphics and a bottom thirds for the show, and that's only the back of the truck.

Moving forward in the truck, and to the left is what Adam Ellis, a graduate audio student, dubs "Audio World".  Inside there's a full mixing board, a 48 multi-track recorder, and everything else necessary to capture, format, and edit all audio for the live-to-tape show.

A few more feet past audio world is the control room.  Here adorned on the far wall are two huge flat screen TVs that display all feeds from all cameras out on the field.  Also available in this room is the communication devices.  Mike Hildebrandt, the director of the shoot, has been telling all of the camera men out in the field to zoom in, move closer, or get out of the shot.  Sure enough as he talks the display feeds on the large Sony flat screen TVs move in, zoom out, and students are being pulled away from the frame.  This is truly a professional production crew.

Our purpose for this 30 minute segment is to have a small package that we will be able to distribute to various media outlets within the area to heighten awareness of not only this class and what we are involving ourselves with, but also for future generations so that they can see the amazing opportunites that they can potentially have if they choose MTSU as their upper-education institution.  

Florida is nothing short of beautiful, the skies are blue and the breeze is refreshing.  We're just about ready to shoot, so this is it for now.  Keep checking back as the day continues!