Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Sunderland
You will be taught by a lively and enthusiastic team, all of whom are actively engaged in researching the areas they are teaching. You will find they include academics with international reputations, such as Professor John Storey, Professor Shaun Moores and Professor Andrew Crisell, who are authors of some of the key textbooks in the field.
Teaching takes place in our David Puttnam Media Centre, which is one of the UK's most advanced centres for training media students. We have our own, luxury, 203 seat cinema with full HD projection, 7.1 surround sound facility.
Our teaching rooms are equipped to ensure that your exploration of film, media and culture is pleasurable as well as detailed and informed. They are fully equipped with a wide range of current audio-visual technologies, including data/video projection, all controlled by touch screen panels - and if you need time to think or a breath of fresh air, you can sit by the river or a take a short walk to the beach!
Our courses are flexible, so you also have the opportunity to study various aspects of media production in some of the best facilities in the country. Our students have industry standard facilities that are the envy of many academic establishments.
The David Puttnam Media Centre received a £1.5m upgrade in the autumn of 2009 and our facilities now boast:
- Several film viewing areas for independent study
- State-of-the-art lecture theatres and seminar rooms
- A suite of eight seminar rooms fully equipped with: audio visual technologies; internet connection; dual platform laptops; and DVD/VHS/CD playout systems. Two rooms have the above equipment with the addition of Blu-ray playout
- 203 seat cinema with full HD projection, 7.1 surround sound facility
- Five radio studios, including a drama studio, a transmission suite for community radio station 107 Spark FM and a 20 station digital audio post-production area complete with four voiceover booths
- Four Journalism suites, each housing 18 Apple iMacs running the Leopard operating system for design applications and video editing
- Broadcast Journalism Newsroom with 17 workstations plus an Avid Utility server, Sky feed and 2 x 40" plasma screens
- Live Sky feed and off-air recording facility, including DVD and Blu-ray recording, plus extensive footage archive/library
- A digital drama and production studio
- Professional recording equipment
- ISDN lines that link us to studios and stations all over the country
- Two broadcast quality TV Studios
- A green room with changing area and shower room
- Over 40 full HD tapeless field camera systems
- 4 Steadicam rigs plus dolly, track and mini crane
- 70 workstations with state-of-the-art HD Edit systems, including Final Cut Pro, Avid and Media Composer
- 20 station digital audio postproduction area
- 40 Avid non-linear edit suites
- New media suite
- Modern, attractive library on campus
- 107 Spark FM, the region's largest student radio station
- Creativitiworks, our business support unit for creative enterprise
- We are part of the BBC Education and Communities Partnership: Connect and Create
107 Spark fm
Our student radio station, 107 Spark FM, recently won a full-time, five-year community radio licence, which re-launched in September 2009.
Through Spark Fm you can gain real-life work experience in our own radio studios and be heard across the city on FM, online and around the world. Many of our graduates now work for commercial stations across the country, such as Galaxy's breakfast presenter Karen Wight.
