The Media Arts Centre

The Department’s Media Arts Centre offers students a professional working environment for developing media practice skills. The Centre is staffed by the Practice Support Team, most of whom have technical experience in the film & television industries and higher education teaching qualifications. The team provides training in television studio recording, location video production, production design, sound recording, digital photography, video editing, digital image manipulation and post production sound. The Centre has standardized on DVCAM as our production format and Final Cut Studio as our post-production platform, and we are currently planning migration to HDV at an appropriate time.

Libraries and Archives

Teaching and research on our Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses Media Theory is supported by an extensive range of services in the Media Arts Department, the College and the wider University of London. These include

• Our departmental teaching and research video/DVD collection consisting of over 3,000 titles
• Dedicated film screening and copying facilities
• A very extensive video/DVD loan collection in the Founders Library
• A substantial collection of books, journals, e-journals and electronic databases for film, television and media studies in the Founders Library
• Borrowing rights at the University of London Central Library at Senate House

The British Film Institute with its extensive archival and library resources, though not part of the University of London’s central facilities, is within easy access and is an invaluable facility for researchers at all levels.