Season Three begins with the second part of Producer Gordon Smuder’s trip to Atlanta to visit the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, and to participate in a workshop thrown by Muppet performer and Atlanta-born Steve Whitmire.
Season Three begins with a Backstage Pass entry, “The Gordon Went Down to Georgia.” In part one of three, Producer Gordon Smuder heads to Atlanta to take part in Steve Whitmire’s Puppetry Workshop at the Center for Puppetry Arts, and has assorted travel adventures along the way.
We’ll be tracking production in the Backstage Pass/Production Diaries entries this year, giving our audience a peek into how the show is created. We feel that the process of putting together something like this is just as fascinating as the results, and hopefully you share our interest in creating oddball, fleece-originated web entertainment.
The Second Season concludes at the Transylvania Television Workshop, and some of the folks who labored this year bringing you your weekly comedy dose look back at the year’s work. Plus, we go behind the scenes shooting the introduction for the Star Wars Holiday Special screening, and get a sense of how the creative process works, refining gags on set. AND PLUS PLUS BONUS: Gordon talks about working props on the upcoming episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition that features the (Jim Henson) Muppet Cast, due to air Jan 3 2010.
A great final episode of Backstage Pass for 2009, thanks to Tyler Compton for producing these spots and thanks to our devoted audience that keeps coming back to watch our low-budget misadventures. Stay tuned in 2010 as we go deeper and deeper into the backstage workings, where we will examine the creation of the TVTV Halloween Special, coming in October of 2010!
This week we talk to Rob Withoff, who’s spent many of his weekends this year helping out the Transylvania Crew! We’ll ask him why he does it, and generally fail to convey how important the contributions of guys like Rob really are.
Backstage at the Transylvania Television Workshop! Michael discusses the difficulties of low-budget lighting and its impact on the shooting process, and we take time with Guy Harrison, one of the grip and lighting fellas on the show!