Simulating a TV Control Room
Client: Tom Nicholson

Tom Nicholson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Television and Radio, met with us to discuss ways to improve his hands-on TV Control Room Lab. Each semester, The Park School has over one hundred and fifty students each semester taking turns at sitting in the director's chair for a three minute live video shoot. Tom spends most of his time assisting individual students who sit in separate seats and he must answer the same common questions repeatedly: “Where is the tone button?” “How do I create a CG title?”

Our solution was to build Tom a control room simulation application that helped students learn basic procedural skills. The simulation included five seats: Audio Mixer, Assistant Director, Director, Technical Director, and Character Generator Operator.

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