32 - Studio Planning and Requirements

Abstract

This chapter discusses studio planning and requirements. Television studios and studio centers are designed for many different reasons to do many different tasks. Television studios are built in a variety of sizes usually to suit the particular types of programming that they will produce. The total useable space in a studio can be reduced by between 20 and 30 per cent if provision is made for a cyclorama curtain, a camera pull-back area, audience seating, and the requirements of fire regulations. The sound mixing console is located in the sound control room from where all the sound associated with the program is controlled. There may be a sub-mixer for sound effects, music, and any other pre-recorded inputs to the program from records, tapes, compact disc, or the digital sound storage media. It is also that any telephoned interviews or contributions will be balanced and where communications will be controlled. To obtain the most cost effective use of television studio equipment and to simplify system design, it has been the generally accepted technique to locate telecine and vtr machines centrally and assign their outputs to studios and the master control room as required. It is important that communication systems should have good audio quality. Microphones have age amplifiers to prevent distortions in the system but too much control is often frowned on as it is important for those involved in the program to hear.