The Multimedia Theatre with a flexible staging and a capacity of 224 seating is equipped with professional performance facilities on audio, video and lighting, and motion capture facilities. The functions of the theatre are for multimedia performances, 3D projection, recoding with a studio audience, motion capture, professional shooting and production applications that required large space for the staging of scenes and high ceiling. The theatre also has an easy access to the Dressing Room and Changing Room. Its size is about 420m2 with 9m clear height.
Professional lighting, power and other services of the Video Production Studio are re-configurable. The studio has a stringent acoustic requirement and facilitates with chroma-key shooting and real-time video mixing and editing. It is mainly for teaching and instructional purposes. Its size is 175m2 with 7m clear height.
These workshops are the integral and indispensible facilities for the Multimedia Theatre and the Video Production Studio, which students need to exercise through hands-on workshop activities to create and produce their own sets, props and costumes for productions. The list of workshop facilities is:
The Future Cinema Studio is a combination of a 3D digital cinema and a sound dubbing theatre. This cinema studio is equipped with the latest Dolby 3D screening and sound dubbing facilities. It can also facilitate the demonstration of various sound track options in a realistic screening theatre environment with immediate and interactive response. It supports Dolby Digital and THX formats. Its seating capacity is 145.
The Audio Recording Studio and the Audio Lab are adjacent to each other; hence, the Audio Lab would allow any of the audio workstations (student computers) to communicate to and record from the Live Room of the Recording Studio. The Live Room could be used for recording dialogue, music ensembles/bands and basic Foley.
High quality digital cinema theatre & rooms with 20-49 seating capacity to show students work as well as to provide a venue for various screenings.
Teaching studios are designed for supporting a wide range of courses including installation art, painting, drawing, performance and movement. Most of the interior are free to be configured and the studios have a framework for hanging attached to the ceiling.
Project studios are configured to support students as a studio space as well as a presentation area for critique.
The animation studio and laboratories are designed for 2D / 3D animation and design. The laboratory is equipped with graphics workstations and the latest 2D and 3D animation software, including Autodesk Maya, Boujou, Zbrush, Toon Boom and Quest 3d.
Video Editing Laboratory and Visual Effect Laboratory are equipped with Mac Pro workstations for supporting post-production courses teaching. The Post Production Studio is an ideal studio for advanced post production users. The five project rooms are configured to allow at most 2-3 persons working on sound recording, sound or video editing, animation, multimedia and other types of projects. They are equipped with sound recording, audio editing and mixing, video editing and viewing facilities.
A suite of photography studio, digital dark room, dark room and print review room is designed for supporting a range of photography courses. The digital dark room is equipped with large scale printers and the darkroom is used for developing film and provides with film-hanging cabinets.
Computer teaching laboratories are designed for teaching various courses, including web page and multimedia authoring, Internet design tools and programming, gaming, interactivity, digital imaging and digital signage.
It is a flexible open space designed for user as an exhibition, assessment, display and pre-function area. It is equipped with a grid of hoisting points.
The high-quality seminar and meeting rooms can be used in conjunction with other event and exhibition facilities.
