The School of Media and Communication (SMC) delivers a range of world-leading undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of Fashion Media, Communication and Design for Performance. These facilities are available to SMC students.
LCF has six Photography Studios available on the 7th floor at East Bank, including one large video production studio, and five flash studios.
The Media Lab is located on 7th floor at East Bank, and offers a wide range of printing, scanning and darkroom processing facilities and resources.
The Media Store is based on the 7th floor at East Bank. It is an equipment loan store for lens based and media related equipment. Technical staff are available to support students with studio spaces and technical equipment enquiries.
The darkroom facilities are on the 7th floor at East Bank, and are for traditional photographic processing and printing. These include a Black and White/Colour film processing room, Black and White/Colour Printing Darkroom and a Finishing area.
The Edit Suites and Voiceover Booth are on the 7th floor at East Bank, and are specialist areas for production and postproduction of moving image and audio.
The Styling and Prop Store can be found on the 7th floor at East Bank. All LCF SMC students can loan styling equipment such as steamers, rails, iron and ironing boards. Garment loan is also available to some courses.
The Costume Studios are located on the 8th floor at East Bank. They are specialist sample rooms with a combination of pattern cutting tables and sewing machines for the design, construction, fitting and finishing of costume and garment making. Equipment in these rooms include over lockers, industrial sewing machines, buttonhole machine, steel cutters, irons, domestic sewing machine, dress stands, fitting zones and heat presses.
The 3DFX Studios can be found on the 8th floor at East Bank. These are fabrication, sculpting and finishing studios for designing, pattern cutting, sewing, sculpting, painting and finishing 3D artefacts, puppets, props, prop costume and installations for performance and fashion environments and media.
The Hair, Make-up and Prosthetics Studios can be found on the 8th floor at East Bank. These studios are for design, testing, making and applying of prosthetics makeup, wigs and hair craft. The rooms have a pop-up photographic area to capture work, a sculpting studio for prosthetics design, sculpting turn tables, and plastic studios.