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WHO set finds new home at Greenlee School By Matt Neznanski Greenlee Lecturer Shelley Rouse is trying to move a television set. Not the box that displays programming, but an actual set used to produce those shows. Des Moines’ NBC affiliate WHO recently donated the set to Greenlee School electronic media studies students after Rouse and others lobbied strongly to bring the equipment here.
“If you know sports, it was a full-court press,” Rouse said. The $60,000 news set includes backdrops, desks and risers, as well as an attached weather center. Rouse said the weather center in particular will allow students to better produce weather programming. The set will be divided into two sets and moved this summer, Rouse said. The weather center will be moved to Studio B in the Communications Building and the news set will be installed in the Anderson Studio in Hamilton Hall. Students can start using the sets in the fall. “The professionalism of the set itself lends itself to better productions by students,” she said. “Homemade sets look nice, but just don’t look the same.” Rouse said the new scenery might help recruit students to produce shows on ISUtv. Students don’t have to have a video production emphasis to work on programming, and not every show needs to use the studio. Each backdrop panel on the set is between 8 and 11 feet wide and equally as tall. It curves around in an arc with oval desks on risers. The desks are designed to hold prompting screens, while the weather center can accommodate several monitors. “It’s built to come apart, but it’s heavy and it’s got a lot of pieces,” Rouse said. For more information, please read "Des Moines station WHO donates television news set to Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication."
Last updated: Nov. 28, 2005 |
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