In a lazy afternoon of busy streets, we reached at Doordarshan Kendra(DDK), Kolkata with our beloved Professor. It was a huge building consisting with the set up of pre-production, post-production, control and transmission facilities.
We 17 students were very interested to see the DDK(Kolkata), the largest Television setup of Eastern India. We took appointment and then a programme officer of DDK came with us to make us understand, what is all about DDK.
At first he took us to different studios where programme is made. among that one big studio consisting of four studio cameras connected with cables to programme control room. Three to four shooting sets and a huge arrangement of light and reflectors were arranged above to give some effects in light and sheding on the studio floor DDK, Kolkata is making programmes in Bengali, HIndi and English.
Then we got a chance to see the live studio, from where they direct transmit the programme to air. They most of the time use Chroma keying and virtual studio to give a special effect to the audience in live. We saw the Teleprompter fpr news reading live camera and Hello Doctor programme, news and it's set.
We moved to control room. There Were two types of control room, one is Programme Control Room (PCR), which controls the programme, while shooting on the studio floor. PCR was consisting of a video monitor wall with monitors for program, preview, VTRS, cameras cues, graphics and other video sources.
Apart from these, the PCR had 'Vision Mixer' or 'Switcher', Audio Mixing console, Character generator, Digital Video effects or DVE, for manipulation of video sources, For Communication with talent and crew the PCR people were using Intercom.
The second one is Master Control Room(MCR) the nerve centre of broadcasting. It is the place where the on air signal is controlled. it may include controls to play back programs and commercials, switch local or network feeds, record satellite feeds and monitor the transmitters.
Usually the programme comes from the studio to PCR for recording. If it is live then the programmes come to MCR through PCR from the Studio floor for transmission.
Then we visited the make-up and changing rooms a reception area for crew, talent, and visitors of differentproperites, materials which are used in shooting set.
it was an enjoying adn learning moment. When we entered to the post production panel of DDK. They had two types of editing suits for their post production: one is linear editing, which is an old editing system and second one is very interesting the Non-linear editing, which was a digital one. The editor (Video) made us understand about the video editing software "Final Cut pro'. At first , he put the cassette in VCR, Captures the raw video or programmes from the studio , edit in his computer by using 'final cut pro' software than he gives the final product. He told us about pal system, colour information, effects, transition, visual grammar at the time of his demonstration.
We also saw the tape library, where they keep the tapes for future use and then where the news, programme professionals refers for news stories.
After visiting two floors we moved to the server room, from where programmes, news go on air. It is the exit gate of programmes and news.
twilight was approaching, the mercury and sodium vapur light were preparing to invade the darkness of the city, when we came out of the DDK, we bid adiue to the 36 year old vibrant and the tireless story teller of life style culture, tradition, heritage of eastern India.
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