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Production Studio

Production Studio
Wyndham Robertson Library

Video Control Room

Video Control Room
Wyndham Robertson Library

Screening Room

Jackson Screening Room
Wyndham Robertson Library



Classroom
Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center



Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center


Auditorium
Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center



Photography class


Darkroom
Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center


Photography class
Film Production

Film Production

Film Production

Film Production

Film Production


Film
  • Two fully equipped color and black-and-white darkrooms for processing and printing; film/photography shoot studio, optical printing studio, editing stations, animation studio, sound/mix studio


Film Production Equipment

  • Full array of grip and support equipment:
    • Bogen, QuickSet, O'Connor tripods, mic stands, boom poles, light meters
    • Lowel Studio Pro location light kits, reflectors, cables, gels
  • Tascam DA-P1 DAT Field Recorders
    • Oktava capsule condenser mic kits, Shure field amps, Sony omni-bi narration mics, Shure dynamic mics
  • Kinoflex Super 8 camera kits
  • 16mm camera kits:
    • Bolex Rex 4 and SBM camera packages
    • Prime Lens Set-Switar 10, 16, 25, 50, 75 mm, Som Berthoit zooms, extension tubes, pistol-grips, filters, accessories
    • Arriflex 16 S/B camera package
    • Variable speed F/R Tobin motor, 2X 400' mags, mattebox (w/ bar and trays)
    • Prime lens set-Schneider 10, 16, 25, 50 mm
  • 16mm sync-sound camera kits:
    • Arriflex 16-BL blimped camera package
    • 2X 400' mags, auto-zoom, orientable viewfinder
    • Crystal Sync-motor & variable speed 8-48 fps
    • Angenieux 12-120 T2 Zoom lens
    • mattebox w/filter set, slate
    • CP-16 R/A camera package
    • 2X 400' mags, 24 fps w/ Crystal Sync motor
    • Angenieux 12- 120 T2 Zoom lens, filter set, slate
  • Editing:
    • Avid Express editing stations and G4 editing stations w/FCP.2
    • Super 8/16 mm bench sets (movie scopes, gang syncs, splicers, rewinds, etc.)
    • Steenbeck 6-plate dual 16/35 editing table


Video Production Equipment

  • Sony mini-DV digital video cameras
  • Sony Mavica digital still cameras
  • JVC GY-DV500 professional digital video cameras
  • Production studio with three professional-grade JVC cameras mounted on Quick Set tripods and dollies, lighting grid with 24 studio-grade lighting instruments, three video feeds, and five audio feeds
  • Control room with Mackie soundboard, Mighty-Mix video switcher and digital-effects generator, three JVC control units, Pinnacle character generator and frame store, JVC Digital S editing suite
  • Edit studio for video editing, video post-production, and multimedia development containing four JVC cuts-only VHS editing stations and two Avid nonlinear edit stations; four G-4 edit stations with FCP.2


Film Studies

  • Media center with an extensive collection of films, laserdisks, videos, DVDs, CD-ROMs and screenplays
  • Screening room that supports video, computer projection, dual 16mm projection, and 35mm slide projection


Photography Facilities:

  • Gang darkroom with 14 enlargers
  • Three film loading rooms
  • Non-silver darkroom
  • Advanced student darkroom with 4 enlargers
  • Color darkroom with 5 enlargers
  • 44 personal lockers
  • Shooting studio
  • Six digital imaging stations
  • Digital printing capable of printing up to 44” prints
  • Epson 2200, 4000, 9600 printers
  • Epson 4180 photo flatbed scanner
  • Film scanner

Photography Equipment:

  • Medium format cameras
  • Two Leica 35mm cameras
  • Holga plastic-lens cameras
  • 4x5 and 8x10 view cameras
  • 4x5 and 8x10 pinhole cameras
  • Three high quality digital cameras
  • Tripods and flash units

Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center and Eleanor D. Wilson Museum

  • The film and photography facilities are housed in the spacious Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, which opened in 2004. Students in film and photography work alongside students in studio art and art history and enjoy easy access to the film auditorium and the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum.

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