Facilities

The Media Production facilities provide opportunities for students working within the creative and multidisciplinary artistic environment of CCM. Media Production film students have access to high-end Sony and RED digital cinema cameras, as well as current lighting, grip and field audio production equipment. The Media Production facilities include a state-of-the-art Television Studio, Audio Recording Studio, a Virtual Production (XR) Studio, Bearcast Radio Station, Podacting Suites and multiple Audio/Video/Multimedia workstation labs that feature the latest Adobe Creative Suite applications. These labs, studios and field equipment are scheduled, maintained and available for student checkout through the Division’s Media Production Office, with easy access for student load-in and load-out for remote productions both on and off-campus.

MPRO students in our upper-level film and television production courses work with professional, high-end digital cinema cameras that include RED Komodo, Sony FX-6 and Blackmagic 6K Pro cameras paired with spherical zoom lenses, cinema prime lenses, and anamorphic prime lenses. Additional field production gear includes Blackmagic 7" monitor/recorders, professional Matthews grip equipment, ARRI and IKAN lighting equipment, dollies, gimbals, and other professional camera support rigging equipment such as 15mm rod base plates, matte boxes, follow focus units, and gold mount battery plates. Our professional field audio equipment includes Sennheiser, RODE and Audio-Technica microphones, 10-foot boom poles, shock mounts, zeppelins and multiple field audio recording devices for field audio acquisition.

In the state-of-the-art multicamera Bartlett Television Studio, control room and master control area, students work with the Grass Valley GV Director switcher and three high end Grass Valley LDX 80 HD cameras that are controlled remotely via a GV OCP camera control unit through fiber connection.

Shows are recorded in 10 bit ProRes to an SSD via the Blackmagic Design Hyperdeck Studio. Students monitor the shows with a 55" multi-view monitor. The studio light grid features IKAN high output LED panels and Fresnel fixtures controlled via an ETC Color Source lighting board.

Scheduled for completion in October 2024, the new CCM Bartlett Television Control Room will feature a Ross Ultrix Router, a Ross Carbonite Ultra 60 switcher with a 3-ME TD3 TouchDrive control panel.  It will also have 2 Ross Xpression graphics systems with 4 total channels of live graphics output.  The replay system will be a 16-channel Evertz Dreamcatcher with 3 operator positions.  The audio room will feature a Calrec Brio console with Dante routing.  The Clear-Com Eclipse will handle all intercom. This room will have connectivity to the current CCM Bartlett Television Control Room via a TouchDrive TD1 control panel that utilizes one of the buses of the Ross Carbonite Ultra 60 switcher. 

The J. Ralph Corbett Audio Production Center is a nod to the famous “big room” studios of yesteryear such as Abbey Road, or the Power Station, and is capable of recording everything from small orchestras, and jazz ensembles, to rock and country music, to radio shows and podcasts.

The  J. Ralph Corbett Audio ProductionCenter includes first-class, acoustically treated multi-room recording spaces, state-of-the-art multi-track control rooms, digital audio workstations and audio post-production suites using ProTools, Logic and Adobe Audition technologies. The various studios within the production center are designed to support a wide variety of recording situations and feature modern surround sound production and mix environments. Our main studios feature industry standard outboard processing from industry leaders such as Neve, API, Tube-tech, SSL, Retro, Manley, D.W. Fearn, Empirical Labs, Grace, Avid, Coil, and Focusrite, as well as the latest in 3rd party plugins from Izotope, Waves, and Celemony, expanding the creative pallet of sonic possibilities for our student body. Our Studio A notably features an 8’ Steinway Grand Piano, and instruments by Fender and Yamaha.

Additional control rooms, digital audio workstations, and audio post-production suites are used for audio for video production, music production and podcasting. All of our studios feature industry standard microphones by Neumann, Sure, Royer, Lawson, Sennheiser, and AKG.

The Jack and Joan Strader Bearcast Radio Center offers state-of-the-art radio production facilities for the student-run internet radio station and media organization, Bearcast Media. The Bearcast facilities includes the 24-7 web-based radio station, 4K digital cinema cameras, lights, audio equipment and a high-end computer workstations for Adobe video, audio and web site development tools.

The CCM Performing and Media Arts Virtual Production Studio will allow CCM students, faculty and staff to fuse traditional physical performance with virtual elements together seamlessly and in real-time. The advent of virtual production in the film/television/video industry has changed the way movies and television shows are produced, ushering in a new realm of possibilities in the creation of immersive, cinematic worlds once deemed impossible. The CCM XR Studio allows the Media Production, Theatre Design and Production, and Acting programs to provide students with ability to work collaboratively in this largest and fastest growing segment of the entertainment industry. Creative work produced in the CCM XR Studio will showcase CCM as a unique collaborative center that prepares students for careers in the 21st century performing and media arts.

The main feature of the CCM XR Studio is its 16x10 foot LED wall, comprised of 60 ultra-high-resolution Planar VPI VX2.5B tile. It offers unprecedented flexibility and realism when filming. Students can create animated 3-D environments for the LED wall using Unreal Engine, so that actors/dancers/musicians become immersed in a virtual world. that can move in real time because of the VIVE camera tracking system, that controls its RED Komodo X digital cinema cameras and enables tracking of the performing artist’s movements and the DMX controlled lights that adjust to map lighting of the virtual scene.

The Nippert Stadium ESPN+ Control Room is the heart of Media Prodeuction’s Sports Media area, where students produce overe 70 live UC Athletic events fo delivery over ESPN+, ESPN2 and ESPNU. The professional, strate-of-the-art equipment includes a Ross Carbonite Switcher, Ross Xpression Graphics System, Ross Mira Replay System, and Ross Ultrix Video Router system.

It also featureas a Calrec Brio audio mixing console, Dante Audio Routing and Clearcom Eclipse Intercom systems for productions.

Equipment for event coverage includes eight Grass Valley Triax/Fiber Cameras with a variety of Canon and Fujinon box lenses and handheld lenses to build cameras in a variety of configurations.

The Media Production Office houses all of the professional film and television production equipment that is available to MPRO students for checkout. Students that take Film and Television Production courses have access to high-end digital cinema cameras, lights, grip and audio equipment for their class, independent study, and Capstone film productions. Students work with MPRO’s Production Office Manager and student staff in the checkout and return process.