Television Studios

Two television studios are housed in Self Hall. Students choosing the Broadcasting sequence will gain experience in broadcast news and production. Students produce a variety of programs in the beginning television laboratory: news, interviews and commercials. On-camera announcing is also taught in this lab. Afternoon and evening laboratory hours are available for students to perfect their broadcast skills.

Digital Editing Labs

The department has two digital audio editing labs and two digital video editing labs. The video editing stations have Power Mac G5s using digital non-linear editing software systems. Each station is equipped with Macromedia Director, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects and Boris Effects software. The student video lab has four editing stations. The audio labs use the Adobe Audition editing system(s). Two Wheatstone audio consoles are used, one in each audio lab. Students in broadcast sequence use these labs.

Macintosh Computer Lab

The Department of Communication has a Macintosh computer lab equipped for desktop publishing and Internet research. A computer upgrade to Macintosh G5 computers was instituted in Summer 2007 (not yet reflected in pictures to your right, but visible in th top photo), which run on the latest software and operating system (Tiger, OSX 10.4.11) and publication software. Among the programs used in classes are Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Macromedia DreamWeaver. A Promethean interactive whiteboard is at the Instructor station.