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School of Media and Communication facilities

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People in a room with bright lights and mirrors.
Hair and makeup studio at East Bank. Photography by Ana Blumenkron.

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 based on specialist discipline.

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Media Production Store at LCF

Media Production Studios

LCF has six film and photography studios available on the 7th floor at East Bank, equipped with professional lighting and accessories.

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Media Lab at East Bank. Photography by Ana Blumenkron

Media Lab

The Media Lab offers a wide range of printing and finishing resources, including darkroom processing and printing, scanning, book binding, mounting and digital print.

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Media Store at LCF

Media Store

Based on the 7th floor, the Media Store offers a range of analogue and digital production equipment for student loan. Technical teams are available to advise and assist students with their enquiries.

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Darkroom at LCF

Darkrooms and Finishing Space

Situated within the Media Lab, the darkrooms provide all students with access to Black & White and Colour processing and printing facilities.

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Edit Suite at LCF

Edit Suites and Voiceover Booth

Adjacent to the Media Store and Lab, the Edit Suites are available to all students for production and post production of moving image and audio.

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Styling Store at LCF

Styling and Prop Store

Next to the production studios, the Styling and Prop Store provides a diverse collection of garments and accessories, as well as styling resources such as steamers, rails and sewing machines, available to all LCF SMC students.

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Specialist facilities at East Bank. Photography by Ana Blumenkron.

Costume Studios

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.

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3D Studio at East Bank. Photography by Ana Blumenkron.

Fabrication and Prosthetics Studios

The Fabrication and Prosthetics 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, and prosthetics.

Make-up Studio at East Bank. Photography by Ana Blumenkron.
Make-up Studio at East Bank. Photography by Ana Blumenkron.

Hair and Make-up Studios

Hair and Make-up studios can be found on the 7th 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.