case file 119 · studio sets · newburgh, ny
three sets. one room. only the walls move.
Every show gets its own world, and the lights, cameras and mics never move. The walls roll in on wheels, land on their marks and roll back out. Changing the look of the studio takes minutes.
- status concept
- sets 3
- wagons 27
- changeover minutes, not days
fig. 1 — the room. pick a set and watch it roll. drag to look around.
the evidence
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exhibit athe idea
Most studios build one set and live with it. Ours is built like a theater: every wall is a weighted wagon on locking casters. The rig stays rigged. The room changes around it.
- One room hosts three completely different shows.
- Each set parks in its own bay, in space a static set would waste.
- The crew hits the same nine floor marks every time, so every show looks the same week to week.
exhibit bset a · brick
The house look. A brick wrap with warm LED seams, a black velour center and the screen. Built for talk, interviews and bands.
parks in the left bay · 9 wagons
exhibit cset b · pink
Soft, bright and a little bit bedroom. Pink walls over white board-and-batten, a big tufted center panel with a glow behind it, tufted panels on each side, arched gold mirrors and floating shelves. Made for a lifestyle or girls' show that wants to feel like hanging out.
parks in the right bay · 9 wagons
exhibit dset c · rustic
The cabin. Barn-wood planks under a heavy header beam, deer mounts, lanterns, and a backlit sign at the center glowing in any color the show wants.
parks upstage, directly behind its own marks · 9 wagons
exhibit ethree cameras, every set
- Cam A: the wide two-shot, dead center.
- Cams B and C: medium shots across the table to the far host, waist-up. Their eyes sit on the upper third line, and they sit on the third that leaves room in the direction they're looking.
The side walls angle in 12° so the side cameras always see set behind the talent, never the room past the end. Flip to straight above to compare.
exhibit fthe light
- Two softbox keys on the hosts.
- Two edge lights cross from behind, putting a rim on each host to separate them from the set.
- Four wash fixtures keep the corners and side walls from falling off into shadow.
- LEDs built into every wall: warm for brick, pink for set B and RGB for the cabin sign, plus the 119 brand colors.
exhibit ghow the walls are built
- Scene-shop flats: 1×4 frames with a toggle every 2 ft and a ¼″ luan skin.
- Each flat rides on a plywood deck with locking casters, braced by two jacks, with ballast low at the back.
- A black kick plate hides the wheels, and wagons pin together on their marks.
- Faux brick, faux deer mounts and painted finishes keep every wagon light enough to roll by hand.
- Every set plugs in through one power drop and one LED controller.
exhibit hwhat's next
- Measure the real room and redraw it to scale.
- Lock in the show names for the screen and the cabin sign.
- Build one test wagon and push-test it before building the rest.
Room size, sign text and screen graphics shown here are placeholders.