Newcastle College
Television and media courses in the School of Art & Design
Newcastle College is one of the biggest FE/HE Colleges in the country, and has attained Beacon status for its provision. Media students enjoy superb facilities in a new £21 million building, the Performance Academy. Incidentally, their architects also designed the Scottish Parliament building and other prestigious buildings.
Courses include a First Diploma in Media, National Diploma in Media (Moving Image) and a Foundation Degree in Television and Media Practice. In total, they have over 150 full-time media students enrolled. In addition, many other students access our facilities...including those studying photography, multimedia, graphics and music and performing arts.
Technical facilities include a fully soundproofed TV Studio with lighting rig, chromakey drapes and a ReflecTV system. Their three studio cameras are JVC DV550s, on Vinten peds and tripods, two with full Autocue heads, all 26-pin wired through facility panels through to Production Control. Here, an industry-standard console includes a Pinnacle Deko Graphics generator, Mighty Mix vision mixer and switcher, SDI convertors, Autocue PC and contols, as well as JVC DV master recorder and VT insert machines, talkback, vectorscope and full remotes for the 550s. The main contractor for their technical provision was Quadrant Visual Solutions.
A sophisticated patching system allows them to route signals throughout the building, and lets students manage video, audio, control and monitoring in the TV Studio, theatre, music venue and elsewhere in the enormous Academy building. Sound is handled in an adjoining room, with three radio mic channels, hard-wired audio tie-lines, CD and minidisk inputs, and Digital Audio Workstation all mixed through a 24-track Behringer mixer.
Students work a lot on location, with Canon XM2, Panasonic DV100 and JVC DV700 cameras, supported by the usual array of Sennheiser and Sony mics, mixers and accessories. All this, as well as Pag belts and lighting kits, field monitors and associated kit is all maintained and issued by their technical support staff.
Editing takes place in a custom-designed 'editing hall' with 20 NLE workstations, running Liquid Edition and Adobe Audition, each connected to our dedicated Pinnacle Palladium 100 server. So long as students save in the correct protocol, all their footage is safe and secure on the mirrored 4 terabyte server, and is accessible from any of the workstations. This is a fantastic and powerful system, perhaps unique in a college setting.
Their landmark building is exceptional, elicits a fantastic sense of productivity and creativity, and has brought media students under the same roof, albeit in a different School of the College, as acting, drama, dance and music students. There is a developing sense of synergy and exchange of ideas, and the enthusiastic development of joint projects.
We welcome visitors, who should contact stuart.langford@ncl-coll.ac.uk in the first instance. For more general information please go to Newcastle College
Newcastle College is one of the biggest FE/HE Colleges in the country, and has attained Beacon status for its provision. Media students enjoy superb facilities in a new £21 million building, the Performance Academy. Incidentally, their architects also designed the Scottish Parliament building and other prestigious buildings.
Courses include a First Diploma in Media, National Diploma in Media (Moving Image) and a Foundation Degree in Television and Media Practice. In total, they have over 150 full-time media students enrolled. In addition, many other students access our facilities...including those studying photography, multimedia, graphics and music and performing arts.
Technical facilities include a fully soundproofed TV Studio with lighting rig, chromakey drapes and a ReflecTV system. Their three studio cameras are JVC DV550s, on Vinten peds and tripods, two with full Autocue heads, all 26-pin wired through facility panels through to Production Control. Here, an industry-standard console includes a Pinnacle Deko Graphics generator, Mighty Mix vision mixer and switcher, SDI convertors, Autocue PC and contols, as well as JVC DV master recorder and VT insert machines, talkback, vectorscope and full remotes for the 550s. The main contractor for their technical provision was Quadrant Visual Solutions.
A sophisticated patching system allows them to route signals throughout the building, and lets students manage video, audio, control and monitoring in the TV Studio, theatre, music venue and elsewhere in the enormous Academy building. Sound is handled in an adjoining room, with three radio mic channels, hard-wired audio tie-lines, CD and minidisk inputs, and Digital Audio Workstation all mixed through a 24-track Behringer mixer.
Students work a lot on location, with Canon XM2, Panasonic DV100 and JVC DV700 cameras, supported by the usual array of Sennheiser and Sony mics, mixers and accessories. All this, as well as Pag belts and lighting kits, field monitors and associated kit is all maintained and issued by their technical support staff.
Editing takes place in a custom-designed 'editing hall' with 20 NLE workstations, running Liquid Edition and Adobe Audition, each connected to our dedicated Pinnacle Palladium 100 server. So long as students save in the correct protocol, all their footage is safe and secure on the mirrored 4 terabyte server, and is accessible from any of the workstations. This is a fantastic and powerful system, perhaps unique in a college setting.
Their landmark building is exceptional, elicits a fantastic sense of productivity and creativity, and has brought media students under the same roof, albeit in a different School of the College, as acting, drama, dance and music students. There is a developing sense of synergy and exchange of ideas, and the enthusiastic development of joint projects.
We welcome visitors, who should contact stuart.langford@ncl-coll.ac.uk in the first instance. For more general information please go to Newcastle College
