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School of Media and Communication facilities

People in a room with bright lights and mirrors.
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.

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Photography Studio at East Bank. Photography by Ana Blumenkron.

Photography Studio

LCF has six Photography Studios available on the 7th floor at East Bank, including one large video production studio, and five flash studios.

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Media Lab at East Bank. Photography by Ana Blumenkron

Media Lab

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.

Two people at a desk with laptops, surrounded by equipment such as cameras and screens.
Media Store at East Bank. Photography by Ana Blumenkron.

Media Store

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.

Two machines behind a black curtain.
Darkrooms at East Bank. Photography by Ana Blumenkron.

Darkrooms and Finishing Space

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.

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Voiceover booth at East Bank. Photography by Ana Blumenkron.

Edit Suites and Voiceover Booth

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.

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Staff in studio at East Bank. Photography by Ana Blumenkron

Styling and Prop Store

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.

Person using sewing machine at table.
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.

3D prosthetic model head with pointed ears
3D Studio at East Bank. Photography by Ana Blumenkron.

3DFX Studios

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.

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

Hair, Make-up and Prosthetics Studios

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.