Media Equipment and Facilities
Our industry-level facilities offer everything you need to practice and produce animation, digital games, film, TV, radio and print media.
Our Media Spaces
The Newsroom
The Newsroom on Falmouth Campus is equipped with thirty PCs with industry-standard hardware and software; video cameras and audio recording equipment; high-end audio and video edit and manipulation software; fast and robust server and media sharing facilities; international, national and local news ingestion subscriptions; teleprompt and green-screen video facilities; field and hand-held recording equipment; dedicated vocal booth, photo, audio and professional radio studio facilities; and live news broadcast facilities. It also has four display projectors for presentation and media sharing, large screen TVs to view and analyse journalistic content and an external broadcast platform for use during news bulletin creation.
The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse on Falmouth Campus is a plush writers’ room with mid-century modern furniture, plants, books, décor and art and even a chaise longue. Inspired by modernist author Virginia Woolf, it's the perfect space in which to pen your work-in-progress, get your head down for assignments, or mull over ideas with friends over a cup of free tea or coffee. The Lighthouse also lends itself to our writer in residence workshops and a range of other author and journalist events.
The Soundhouse
The Soundhouse on Falmouth Campus is a purpose-built, standalone professional radio control room for broadcast radio production, multi-mic interviews and podcast recordings. It is equipped with an Axia digital desk, Zetta playout and scheduling systems, and Burli newsfeed systems- all on PC platforms There are multimedia/bluetooth playout facilities, phone-in services and full self-op radio opportunities. The studio area hosts two interview microphones, headphones and a control room.
Third-year Film BA(Hons) student, Theo, takes us behind the scenes of his final-year project, shot on location in Cornwall.
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