The Set
I've had questions about the Bill Tv presentation set. Are they real? Um...no. (lol) Then, why go to the trouble? Sure, I could have propped myself in front of a wall, but why be like all the other home videos? The longest narration was the second year where I was sitting in front of my fireplace. I talked so long the natural gas company ran out of gas.
I always thought it was funny how these news shows had one anchor sitting in this HUGE news set. So, every Bill Tv set was made to look more cavernous than the last. First it was camera shots of a model which probably looked the best. The picture here is a model made out of parts I found around the house. I did it in an afternoon. It was set up in the sun room so the back window would look out over my yard...which is real. The desk is made from old AT&T telephone cradles. The monitor is an actual 3" Tv I had. That logo is overlayed and the plexiglass stand it is on is an upside down soap holder. The ceiling in the picture above (top left) is a clear desk organizer turned upside down. The monitors on the wall and technical stuff were cut out of a magazine. The columns are foam pipe insulation. None of it is real. The pictures to the right show how it looked on camera.
Then it was computer graphic, or virtual, all the way. It was all done using bad chroma-key. That's the picture on the left which was all done with Photo Impact which is a "Protoshop"© type program. There are companies that will sell CD's with "virtual sets" to use for just this reason. I guess Bill Tv was ahead of its time.
The picture below that is one of the first sets I tried. The counter is actually my Technics turntable base and the window is a graphic. It would move up and down which was my way of making fun of the Today Show when they moved "street level" putting up a screen to keep the people from looking in.
It's all in fun and I hope this explanation doesn't take away from your enjoyment of the end product.
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