Production Facilities and Equipment

The Media Arts Production Lab (MARPL) provides Media Arts production courses with professional camera, audio, grip, and electric equipment and technical support. The MARPL staff supervises and trains students on the production equipment.

MARPL provides its students with a wide range of professional industry standard equipment for in class labs and for field use. MARPL maintains thirty-two Mini DV camera packages for its beginning and intermediate production courses, high-end video cameras (Panasonic DVX100) for advanced projects, and 16mm film cameras (Bolex, Arri BL and CP-16).

MARPL can support up to three senior thesis productions with full camera, grip and electric packages at any given time. Electrical gear includes lights by Lowell, Mole Richardson and Kino Flo.

Production Studio 108 is a new 1000 sq. foot production space for student productions and teaching workshops. It features a lighting grid, a cyclorama for special effects, and acoustical sound dampening to allow for foley and ADR work.

Studio 108 provides Media Arts students a space for quality production instruction and a controlled shooting space for filmmaking.

Studio 108 and MARPL are managed by the Media Arts Production Lab Supervisor, Jorge Urbina.

Media Arts Post-Production Services (MAPPS) facilities include the Hanson Post-Production Lab, a twenty-one seat Mac-based media lab, and 3 advanced media suites devoted to sound and image editing and design. The facilities are used both for class instruction and student use in the completion of their production assignments.

MAPPS facilities offer industry standard resources for media production. Software includes Final Cut Studio, Apple’s solution for real-time video, motion graphics and audio, and Logic Pro, the industry-leading application for music creation and audio production. MAPPS also provides a full complement of supporting hardware including DV recorders, analog-to-digital converters, scanners and broadcast quality rack and patching systems. An Apple X Server with 2.5 Terabytes of networked storage provides individualized user accounts for students and staff.

MAPPS is managed by the Media Arts Post-Production Supervisor, Bob Demers.