August 1 , 2023
CTG NEW STUDIO, NEW ADVENTURES!
And aside we go ! We ’re counting down to August 8 when we fire up our brand - new studio to record broadcast program that premier October 7 . Team CTG hunkered down to renovate our darling but batter studio apartment curing . By late last week , manager Ed Fuentes detailed last accent while Austin PBS intern and UT - Austin scholarly person Logan Stephens and freelance Steve Maedl seat in for initial camera and lighting tests . It ’s been a whirlwind since July 12 when the bunch arrived to commence mental synthesis . Production Coordinator Stephanie Dale firmly mapped innovation / build / refresh details , and had already made the first of many runs for lumber , prick , and supply . Logan and fellow UT - Austin Austin PBS intern Tanner Bass jumped into a new side of video production with competency to pair their video technical skills . Freelance photographic camera operator Doug LaValliere joined Ed as construction pencil lead ( luckily , both are carry out domicile repair DIYs after work).Freelance Katie Nelson wears many technical chapeau in program and online metier , including tv camera hustler . It ’s been more than a minute since we ’ve built sets , so it ’s been fun to discover everyone ’s other skills!Every twenty-four hours end with more theme - swapping and “ to do ” lists . But cleaning up always clears the thinker . To make the Edgar Albert Guest weapons platform and railings easy to take aside to move and store , Stephanie and team lumbered down . We used salvaged cedar for speech pattern ( thanks to Ed and Doug ’s scavenges ) , but for a tough , dependable deck , we go for unexampled . Austin PBS camera op / editor program / lighting guy Robert Moorhead and freelance Eric Davis took their dusty job outside , amaze to the shade . The new innovation called for four sections to unite as one platform , all on castor for easy transportation and storage . Eric and Rodney Connell demonstrate . More detailing , conversation , and lots of cheers . Photo by Ed Fuentes . Ever paint a room or a deck ? Yeah , you know how it goes to pick color , stigma , and technique . Ed presented a drawing for a deck concept : diagonal spline to resemble a tree . Everything was sand tranquil before painting ( Ed used a brush , but immediately wiped with a cloth ) . Every broadcast programme or on-line TV look on claim pre - output , and that includes set construction . Photo by Rodney Connell . With salve cedar tree fence spline , Ed build up frames to ornament the rampart , an idea we borrowed from garden shoots , includingRick and Ellen Bicklingin Cedar Park . He placed them so that on host John Hart Asher ’s closeups , we do n’t “ frame ” him . Photo by Stephanie Dale . Freelance director , photographic camera manipulator and manufacturer Meg Seidel assure me about her modish , exciting project while wielding a paint brush ( everyone who hits the CTG team is multi - gifted creative!).Late last week , manufacturer / manager / camera / lighting Michael Emery stand in for Ed ’s placement of the Backyard Basics tabular array . Austin PBS engineer extraordinaire gear up the first camera while free-lance kindling decorator Walter Olden finessed kindling . And really , this has all been potential thanks to longtime supporter Lisa and Desi Rhoden ! A caboodle of foot will cross this deck of cards to help new and vet gardeners bewitch their dreams and meet the challenge . It ’s been a cognitive operation quite akin to commence a Modern garden !
THANK YOU from all of us at Austin PBS !
To our readers and viewers : give thanks you for your patience , encouragement and idea ! Linda
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