Film, Animation and Photography facilities
When you join Birmingham City University, the first thing you will notice is the high standard of our campuses. With an investment of over £400 million across our buildings and facilities, we are committed to giving you the very best learning environment to help shape your experience.
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Hires and Loans
Hires and Loans boasts a large range of high-end cameras for film and photography, sound recording equipment, tripods, lights and more! The room is staffed by our friendly technicians, who are always on hand to help with any technical queries.
Photography studio
Photography dark room
Develop your images in our bespoke dedicated darkroom and adjacent processing rooms. Expert technicians are on hand to assist and advise.
Animation classroom
We have three impressive computer labs with high end PCs, installed with all of the industry relevant software that is required for creating digital animation, VFX and other forms of digital art. This includes Autodesk Maya, Toonboom, Storyboard Pro, Adobe Substance Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, Unreal and Unity engines.
DaVinci Suite
Parkside has four fully professional standard edit suites, based on the industry-standard Avid editing system, which is used in almost all films and the majority of UK television. Though all of the suites can edit, two of the suites are specialised for Audio Finishing and Colour Grading.