Facilities

Our students enjoy the best facilities and technology on offer. Our facilities are purpose-built for the needs of music, communications, media and design students.

Design Studio

A fully-equipped professional design studio for industry projects.

Video Facilities

  • Portable field work: Fully equipped store for borrowing video and audio location equipment.
  • Outside Broadcast Van: 3 Sony Cameras, Slate Vision Switcher and a 16 channel Audio Desk. Diesel powered Generator.
  • Television Studio: Green Screen Cyclorama, 36 Channel Lighting Console, Sony Cameras, 48 channel Audio Desk, Sony DVS-9000 Switcher, Chyron, Autocue.
  • Streaming Server: For Podcasting, Vodcasting and streaming live footage.
  • XSAN storage: For studio Playout and Record and Postproduction.
  • Post production facilities: Edit suites with Mac Pros, 32" screens. Fibre connectivity to the XSAN Server.
  • Large Screening room with Screen projection with 5:1 surround sound and large rear screen HDTV.
  • Green room with meeting space and screening facilities.

 

view of TV control room at UWS Communication Arts


Journalism Studios

  • video editing and sound suites
  • radio lab
  • analogue and digital equipment for video and sound recording

Photography

  • studio spaces over 200 square metres
  • a 7-metre wide cyclorama
  • an extensive range of industry-standard studio flash equipment
  • a large variety of medium and large format camera equipment for loan to students
  • a large range of digital still cameras and associated lenses for loan to students, including state of the art wirelss file transfer system for use in studios
  • a dedicated, colour managed computer imaging lab for tutorials including Apple computing, configured for a full range of digital design and production including Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Express and Adobe Lightroom
  • digital print and scanning facilities, including Epson 9900 large format printer
  • online equipment bookings and print services

 

Music Performance at Communication Arts, UWS

Music

The Music facilities include two professional multitrack recording studios with the latest digital audio technologies, including ProTools, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Waves plug-ins, and high quality microphones and outboard audio processing. The studios are connected to a variety of purpose-built, acoustically-designed spaces, allowing for large scale isolated recording.

Three audio post-production studios are equipped with 5.1 surround monitoring, allowing for the mixing of audiovisual material in Dolby Digital and surround formats for cinema and DVD applications. Supplementing the studios are two multi-station Apple computer labs with the latest audio, sequencing, synthesiser and music scoring applications.

The Golden Stave Music Therapy Centre, located on the UWS campus, is a partnership with Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia.

Computer Labs

  • Apple computer labs, configured for full range of digital design and production including Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro and After Effects
  • PC computers for cross-platform production

Language Labs

  • PC computer labs, configured with Sanako linguistic software
  • Professional-grade Sanako headsets

Community Television

TVS, Sydney's community television station, is located at UWS.