(playful music)
- Wow, look, we're at a television station today
to find out about TV production.
- Hi Kids, welcome to the TV station.
- Hi.
- Excited?
- Yes.
- Yes, would you like to go see the studio?
- Yes.
- Alright, I will go take you to meet Carmelo, let's go.
- Okay.
(upbeat music)
- [Carmelo] Hi.
- Hi.
- I'm Carmelo Rodriguez, I'm the Studio Manager.
Welcome to the studio guys.
Right now, I wanna pass you over to Keith Lester,
he is my Studio Technician and he will
explain everything to you.
- How are you doing, Nicholas?
How you doing?
So, here we are at the green screen.
Now, here we can have, make it look like anything
you want in the background.
- Can we make this look like a beach?
- Yes we can, we can be in the forest,
we can have dinosaurs in the background,
we can make it look like anything we want.
Just like that, you like that?
- Yes!
- [Keith] Alright, let's do it.
(funky music)
[Keith] Okay guys, now that we're done with the acting,
we're gonna go inside the control room
and gonna see how the magic happens, okay?
- [Ms. Penny] Yes.
- [Keith] Alright, let's go.
- [Ms. Penny] Okay.
(funky music)
- Hi, welcome to the control room.
Here I'm going to show you what we do with you
when you're on a green screen, okay.
So now you see Nicholas is sitting out
in the green screen, right?
- [Leilani] Yes.
- We can put whatever background we want on him.
So we're gonna put first a leaf, right.
Wanna put up a leaf with some water on it.
We're gonna make him into a little bug, right.
So let's make him into a little bug
like he's right on the leaf, boom, right there.
- [Ms. Penny] Oh, the magic of television.
- [Leilani] Put him on Saturn.
- Put him on Saturn, okay, watch this.
(electronic music)
So where do you want to see him next?
- I want him to see under the ocean.
- Under the ocean?
- Remember when you changed it to the ocean.
- [Tech] You ready?
- [Leilani] Yeah.
- [Tech] Watch this.
(gasp)
He's under the water now.
- Wow, so now what's going to happen is
you're gonna go there and he's gonna come here,
and we're gonna watch you, okay?
- Okay.
- Yeah, are you gonna be funny, yeah we're gonna watch you.
- I'll see you on camera.
- Bye.
- We'll see you in a minute.
Nicholas come on in, we're gonna see your friend.
We just saw you up here, and this is the control room.
- Hi Nicholas, welcome, so now we're going to get to
see your friend like we saw you earlier, okay.
- Those buttons are what makes the technology happen.
He pushes special buttons
and magic things happen on the screen.
- [Nicholas] Oh, get her on the tree.
- [Tech] On the tree, let's put her on the tree, here we go.
- [Ms. Penny] Oh.
- [Tech] Now she's sitting on a branch, you see.
You better hold on tight, huh.
(laughter)
She's gonna fall off, yeah.
- We can do anything we want to with her,
technology makes that possible.
- Thank you very much for showing us TV magic.
- Well, you're quite welcome Nicholas,
and I hope you come back and see us again.
- Bye.
- Okay, I'll see you next time.
- Thanks.
- Bye bye.
- Bye, thank you very much.
Wow, look at that.
(inaudible)
We are in editing room, and Mr. Sean is an editor,
and this is where our imaginations really take off.
This is where we learn to be creative with film.
- Alright, who wants to be an editor today?
- [Leilani] Me.
- You wanna go first, alright, you can sit in my chair.
- Go ahead.
- There you go.
What an editor does, is he takes a lot of the camera footage
and he takes all that footage, and he brings it
into a computer, and then tries to make it
as exciting as possible.
Do you guys have a computer at home?
- [Nicholas] I do.
- You do?
- [Leilani] I do.
- Well, this is pretty much like your computer at home,
you can see here you have a keyboard.
And what I'm going to teach you is a little bit
about the keyboard.
Now if you want that to stop playing,
who wants to hit this button right here?
- Me.
- Okay, go ahead, hit it once.
See how it stopped, oh my God, that's almost like magic.
- [Nicholas] What are these controllers?
- This is called a mixer, and if you hear right now,
we can't hear anything, do me a favor,
go ahead and hit that bar, now if you can,
take this little lever and just slide it up.
- [Nicholas] All the way up?
- Not all the way, go halfway, keep going, keep going,
whoa, keep going, keep going,
we wanna hear it, there you go.
Now you can go ahead and stop it, now start it again.
- [Television] A thorax and an abdomen.
- Now this is called the mixer, and this allows us to hear
what we are seeing.
- [Leilani] What does this box do?
- What this box does is it has a lot of sound effects in it.
And so what we can do is record them
into the computer and put them in our KidVision programs.
- [Leilani] But what do these buttons do.
- Do you want to hear one of them?
- [Leilani] Yeah.
- Go ahead and push the green button.
(yells)
Oh my God, it sounds like a bunch of plates breaking.
- [Ms. Penny] Try it again, push another one.
(siren)
- [Nicholas] A cop car.
(laughter)
- So all of these sound effects help us be more creative.
- [Leilani] Thank you Mr. Sean.
- You're very welcome, and I hope you guys had fun
and learned something.
- [Nicholas] Bye.
- [Sean] Alright, bye guys, have fun.
- Hey, welcome kids, this is where the programs
are broadcast before they go on to your television screen.
They have to come through here, either we take them
in our studios, or they come through the satellite.
Here's the schedule of our programming
and everything that we will have throughout the day.
Sometimes our programs change, so we have to come here
and change them manually.
Other times, it runs automatically.
What is your favorite show.
- Super Why.
- [Monica] When do you watch that?
- In the morning.
- And what is your favorite show to watch in the morning?
- Cat in the Hat.
- [Monica] And what is your favorite character?
- Cat in the Hat.
- What happens if there is an emergency
and you want to tell everyone, for instance,
a hurricane is coming, or there's a tornado,
or just that there's an emergency.
How do you reach the public?
- Well, we send out an emergency notice.
It doesn't matter what the programming is,
it will come up to your screen
and that way we can let our viewers know
if there is an emergency.
- And that comes from here?
- That comes from, yes, this is our source.
- [Ms. Penny What's that program?
- [Nicholas] PBS kids.
- [Ms. Penny] It is, I think that's Sid the Science Guy.
- [Leilani] It is.
- So Monica plans to make sure that every morning
you can see your favorite PBS shows, isn't that great?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, say thank you.
- [Leilani] Thank you.
- Thank you for showing us master control.
It's very exciting in here.
- I hope you guys enjoyed being here.
- [Ms. Penny] We did.