Studios
When you join the School of Media, Arts and Design you enter an environment that is as close as we can make it to the world of the creative industries. You will be learning in a purpose built arts and media centre equipped with high end professional studios, workshops, laboratories and specialist facilities.
Media and journalism students work in a broadcast quality television studio while there is a separate studio for film and a dedicated print newsroom. The School is well provided with facilities for shooting and editing video. Shooting is done on DV/MiniDV tapes and we edit using Apple computers and Final Cut Pro software.
The luxuriously appointed photography area, with its suite of studios, dark rooms, print and finishing facilities and its extensive range of equipment has just installed an expanded digital suite and has invested in new high end equipment for digital imaging. The three professional fashion studios have also expanded to include a digital suite, while the School has also furnished new studios and high end computer facilities for Graphic Design, together with new laboratories and extensive rostrum and editing facilities for Animation.
The School also has a cluster of dedicated fine art and illustration studio spaces with extensive additional resources including a well-equipped print room, a large wood, metal and plastic workshop, and a casting workshop for plaster, latex, wax, resin and related materials. There is also a suite of ceramics studios and workshops with gas and electric kilns, as well as a purpose-built site for outdoor kiln building and firing.
