Facilities and Equipment


The Department of Film and Media provides students with access to some of the best training facilities in the UK. These are updated every year to keep pace with developments in the media industries. Key facilities and equipment are as follows:

1) Media Centre
This purpose-built facility includes :

New Mobile Multi-camera production vehicle with web-streaming capabilities; 
PC Video Editing Stations with DVD drives, Matrox RT.X100 real time effects, Adobe Premiere 6.5 and DVDit;
Television Studio (with three JVC Digital wide-screen broadcast cameras);
Production Gallery;
Access to Seven Portable Digital Video Cameras, Lights, Microphones etc.
Subtitling Training Suite;
Dubbing Suite and Access to the on-site Student Radio Station.

2) Video Conferencing Suite

3) The Mac Lab
This facility includes 20 Apple G4 computers, open access scanner, CD-Writer and networked colour and black-and-white laser printers. The software suite comprises:
Design and Publishing software:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Adobe PageMaker
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Streamline
Quark XPress

Electronic Publishing software:
VR Worx
Apple iMovie 

Administration software: 
Microsoft Office 2001

Professional Scriptwriting software:
Final Draft

Web Design software:
Adobe PageMill
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Netscape Navigator
iCab web browser

In addition to the above, students have access to a wide range of computing facilities around the campus. VHS and DVD viewing facilities are also provided, both in the library and in a separate facility opposite the Media Centre.
