Facilities & Equipment

Facilities• Two production stages outfitted with rolling set pieces that create a variety of shooting opportunities such as the front of a house and/or brownstone, the interior of a bathroom, interior rooms including staircases and bookcases and furniture. The large stage has a board-controlled lighting grid.

• Two large digital editing labs with Avid, Final Cut Pro and Pro Tools editing software.

• Post-production audio/music studio  has Pro Tools, an ADR booth and Foley pits for completing dialogue, music and sound design work.

• 8200 cu. ft mix theater with ProTools HD surround for full Dolby 5.1 film mixes.

• Color Correction Suite with Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve 9.0 with a Tangent 3 trackball Countrol Surface.

• Student Writing Lab equipped with Final Draft software for writing screenplays and Microsoft Office.

• A 200-seat professional movie theater with state-of-the-art projection and sound

• Production office for student meetings and other tasks necessary to arrange our 50-plus student productions mounted each semester. Auditions for actors are held every fall and spring,  and in this office more than 200 headshots and actor resumes are catalogued. Also a computer with e-mail and a phone with voicemail are provided so that students can conduct preproduction business.

Equipment A film equipment room houses all the film school’s production equipment. Students follow industry practices for the check-out and returning of gear. Only students in production classes may check out equipment. Current equipment includes:

• Three Arri SR-1 16mm camera packages with accessories
• Two HPX 170 cameras
• Sony EX3 camera
• Canon 5D Mark 3 kit
• Five 744T Sound Devices Hard Disc Recorders
• Panasonic HVX 100 mini DV camera packages
• Digital and Film camera tripods
• Two FR-2 Field Memory recorders
• Three DAT Packages
• NAGRA IV-S
• Zoom H4N SD card recorders
• 6 Sennheiser shotgun microphone kits
• A large assortment of grip and lighting equipment including HMI Pars