Our Production Facilities

Studios 1 and 2 are used for teaching and filming. Students have access to these spaces outside of teaching hours to work on their own projects as well as their assessed work. 

Studio 1 provides 108 square metres of filming space for our students. The space includes a lighting grid, green screen capability as well as various scenery flats, staging and flooring. 

Studio 2 provides 100 square meters of filming space, which includes scenery flats and flooring. Both studios are available for our students to book and use via our online booking system.

We also have two dedicated filming location cottages on campus for our students' exclusive use. They each feature kitchens, living rooms, bedroom spaces and are fully furnished. These filming locations are available for our students to book and use 24/7 via our online booking system.

We run four dedicated multimedia labs, all with the latest production software for post-production, animation, VFX, game design and scriptwriting:

• Full Adobe CC suite (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, etc)
• Avid Pro Tools and Avid Media Composer
• Apple Logic Pro (Mac labs)
• Unreal Engine and Unity (PC labs)
• Maxon One (includes Cinema 4D and Z Brush)
• Autodesk (3D Studio Max, Maya and Mudbox)
• TV Paint

We offer all Media Arts students access to a large catalogue of professional equipment for all the courses we support:

• Cine and DSLR cameras (Sony, BlackMagic…)
• Prime lenses
• Lighting equipment (Arri, LEDs…)
• Grip equipment (Dolly tracks, Jib arm…)
• Location sound equipment (Boom mic, zoom recorders…)
• Drawing Wacom tablets
• VR headsets

You will be given training in location recording techniques and location safety during the first few weeks of your degree, after which you can borrow equipment for course productions on or off-campus once you have completed the necessary safety risk assessment for each shoot.

You can book equipment via our student-facing online booking system SISO, where you can add all the equipment you have been trained on to the basket and submit it for confirmation.

Our risk assessment system is included in SISO for a simple single website for you to prepare for your production.

You can also book a Tech Surgery: a one-to-one with one of our technicians for a refresher on equipment, or to have a chat about your project.

Our on-campus Prop Store offers our students opportunities to browse and select props for their creative productions. The Prop Store has an eclectic mix of small props, soft furnishings, furniture, costumes and other scenic items. Meetings in our on-campus Prop Store are booked via our online booking system, and taken by our experienced Studio & Design Services Specialist.

Below are some examples of our props.

Audio facilities include location sound equipment such shotgun microphones and field recorders, a booth suitable for recording voice over, music, ADR and sound effects as well as a larger recording space suitable for foley recording. Specialist software includes Apple Logic Pro, Avid Pro Tools and Adobe Audition, and microphones include Neumann, Sennheiser and Audio Technica models.

All media editing suites have monitoring suitable for audio mixing, and a surround sound edit suite is available for more complex audio production.

We have a teaching space called The Loft above Studio 1. It seats 35 students and doubles as a seminar room and foley sound recording space, where students can capture sound effect elements and record ADR (automated dialogue replacement).

We host a large number of individual edit suites, each with a Mac Studio or Dell PC running the latest industry standard applications. Each edit suite is equipped with:

• Widescreen dual computer monitors and external speakers
• Adobe Creative Cloud apps including: Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop and Audition
• DaVinci Resolve (Studio version on PCs)
• Avid Pro Tools and Media Composer
• Apple Logic Pro (Mac Studio only)
• Plus there are dedicated suites for sound, colour grading and 5.1 mastering

Every edit suite is connected to our central media storage server, so you can access your work wherever you are in the production hub on campus.

Our students are given 24-hour access to our on-campus postproduction industry-standard media asset management server: EditShare currently offers 512 terabytes of media storage for video post-production and sound design over a fibre optic network. This system allows you the flexibility to log on to any of our specialist Apple and Dell desktop computers and continue working on your content.