FACILITIES
The course will directly make use of the specialist filming studios and range of camera equipment, giving you hands on instruction and also giving you direct access to book out the facilities and camera equipment for your use at any time while studying on the course.
With state of the art industry level facilities and equipment, we provide hands-on industry focused training and teaching to make sure you are studio ready but also to let you realise your creative ideas.
Green Screen Studio
£100,000 industry standard green screen facility
Bi-colour ceiling mounted lighting grid enabling tungsten or daylight colour temperatures
Range of floor lamps (Kino Flo, Diva, Select Full-RGB, Dedo lamps)
Custom built 180° infinity curve
Fully integrated DMX 24-channel lighting desk
ATEM switcher, recorder and live-keyer
Canon C300 Mk2
Cinematic range CP2+3 lenses
Virtual Production Suite
£150,000 Hybrid Green Screen Virtual Production Studio capable of running at 4K
Red Komodo X with Wide variety of Lens including CP2 + 3
Vive Mars Cam Track – With Mars FIZ track lens encoders
Custom built computer running a Intel Xeon CPU and Nvidia RTX A6000 GPU
RGB lighting both in grid and floor lamps
5 Meter by 5 Meter L-shaped greenscreen
Black magic ultimate 4K
Two Studios with High Performance Machines
Two computer studios and one study area
50+ Apple M1 iMacs with the latest industry standard software
4K Projectors
4K Presenter TV
Gigabite internet download speeds
Break-out spaces
Cameras and Lighting
Dedicated Media Loans department catering £1.5 million worth of equipment
Canon C300 Mk2
Sony FS5, Z150, NX100, A7S Mk2, A7R 3
Black Magic Cine4K, Ursa Mini, Ursa Production
Kino Flo, Dedo, ARRI and Photon Beard lamps
Range of aputure LED lamps
Camera stabilisation (Ronin MX, Movi Pro)
Selection of prime lenses (CP2 & CP3, Xeen's, range of Canon DSLR primes)
Television Studio
4K fiber recording facility
Grid-mounted lighting options (Image 45, range of ARRI tungsten lighting)
Rack-mounted engineering suite featuring talk-back radios and wireless presenters
Separate gallery recording facility powered by Black Magic and ATEM
Dual-purpose space from TV studio setup to larger green screen cyc
Three 2K Sony TV ped-mounted zoom cameras
Performance Capture Studio
Vicon 18-camera volume
Run via Blade software
10x Vicon MoCap suits
Crash mats & running machines
Theatre and Cinema
State-of-the-art 4K projector
Star cloth cyc
ATEM studio production facility with live streaming capabilities
150 capacity Theatre auditorium
160 capacity Cinema auditorium
M.2 lighting desk
Additional Facilities
Dolby mixing studio
AVID finishing suite
Array of music, radio and podcast studios
Talk-back studio
Journalism news studio
Rehearsal space
Fabrication workshops including laser-cutting and 3D printing labs
A Creative Campus
USW Cardiff is in the city center, putting you at the heart of the capital of Wales. It's the perfect home for our creative industries courses and students. The last decade has seen specialist facilities develop across campus for you to hone and learn creative skills in a professional environment. Cardiff is a major center for media production in the UK, with the city center now home to the BBC in addition to the established Bad Wolf Studios, home to TV productions such as His Dark Materials.