Lunch & Learn: Princeton University’s Broadcast Center: First Cuts

The new Peter B. Lewis Library con­tains a new OIT-operated Broad­cast Cen­ter with a high def­i­n­i­tion video stu­dio that fea­tures a green room with a 65 inch LCD screen, a pro­fes­sional audio record­ing stu­dio, as well as the hard­ware and soft­ware to edit video, color cor­rect footage, and sweeten and edit audio. The Stu­dio also has a Broad­cast van with full, mobile pro­duc­tion capa­bil­i­ties.
The Broad­cast Stu­dio staff is happy to assist mem­bers of the Uni­ver­sity com­mu­nity from the begin­ning through the end of their A/V projects, from the actual shoots through video edit­ing and the final dis­tri­b­u­tion. Some of the projects involve loca­tion shoots (from sin­gle cam­era shoots through full pro­duc­tion), live event pro­duc­tions (such as Com­mence­ment and Open­ing Exer­cises), and in-studio shoots that aid in con­trol of light­ing and other key con­di­tions. The Cen­ter also man­ages lec­ture record­ings (includ­ing he inte­gra­tion of lec­ture A/V and speaker slides), pod­casts, and rich media content.

Lance Her­ring­ton intro­duced a range of the early work pro­duced at the Broad­cast Cen­ter. Exam­ples of Loca­tion shoots include a dis­crete record­ing with a roam­ing cam­era of PLOrk, the Prince­ton Lap­top Orches­tra, a nar­rated film with­out local audio about OIT Expres­sions, a yearly art exhi­bi­tion, and a pro­duc­tion involv­ing fac­toids and inter­views for the Human Resources Ser­vice Recog­ni­tion Lun­cheon.

Live pro­duc­tion events included the Provost’s inter­view with Ruth Bader Gins­burg in the University’s Pub­lic Lec­ture Series and the Fresh­man Open­ing Exer­cises.
An exam­ple of a stu­dio shoot is an inter­view with Maria Gar­lock of the Depart­ment of Civil and Envi­ron­men­tal Engi­neer­ing. And Lance demon­strated a video edit­ing project about the Iron Tiger Show­down, a cook­ing com­pe­ti­tion among the many res­i­den­tial col­lege chefs.
Lance also showed the result of time-lapse pho­tog­ra­phy in record­ing the con­struc­tion of the Peter B. Lewis Library.
David Hop­kins has been with the Uni­ver­sity for 17 years and has been work­ing in video pro­duc­tion for more than 20 years. He was for­merly the man­ager of the New Media Cen­ter. David grad­u­ated from North Cen­tral Uni­ver­sity.
A grad­u­ate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Lance Her­ring­ton joined Prince­ton in 2001. He serves as a Senior Edi­tor and Pro­ducer in the OIT Broad­cast Cen­ter.
A pod­cast and the pre­sen­ta­tion are available.