![]() ![]() Play With Me Sesame seems like it’s made up entirely of banked segments - and if you watch a bunch of episodes in a row, you’ll see some of the same segments two or three times. Sesame Street has at least one non-banked segment every day, which is the street story - that’s the one unique element in every episode. ![]() Telling Stories with Tomie dePaola used the same technique - all the Strega Nona pieces were recorded in one block, all the woodland-animal band segments in another. The banking technique means that they can schedule the performers to come in for short, intense shooting schedules, and they also save money by using the same sets, costumes and props over and over for each segment. Frank Oz came in to the studio and recorded 26 “Letter of the Day” segments all at once, Jerry Nelson performed the Count for 40 “Number of the Day” segments, they made let’s say 15 new “Elmo’s World” segments, maybe 12 “Journey to Ernie” segments - and then they mix and match this limited number of pieces to make however many episodes to fill out the season. The new season of Sesame Street uses a lot of banked segments. PLAY WITH ME SESAME INTRO TVBasically, banking is modular TV production - a show is divided into separate pieces, and then they “bank” a whole slew of pieces all at one time. TV production costs are going up all the time, ad revenue is going down, and they have to make shows as cost-effective as possible, and Banking helps them do it. There’s this technique that Henson and Sesame Workshop are using called Banking, which helps them to produce shows really cheaply. You know how yesterday I was rambling on about how Play With Me Sesame doesn’t really have a geography, except for that default-setting TV-studio webspace background? The thing I didn’t talk about yet is how the show is constructed, which explains why it doesn’t have a setting. ![]()
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