Industry-Standard Facilities and Equipment
We are blessed with incredibly good technology at Taylor, thanks to partners who recently gave Taylor more than a million dollars just for film, video and television equipment.
The Rupp Communication Arts building includes . . .
- Five Final Cut Pro HD edit suites
- Sony cameras including F3s, 350s and EX3s for field and studio use
- Steadicam Phantom & Steadicam Pilot
- DSLR cameras for still and motion photography
- Macintosh computer lab with 20 workstations
- Three audio production bays and sound booth
- HD Television studio and control room with seven camera capability
- Broadcast radio station, WTUR-FM 89.7, reaching 25 miles
- Two equipment checkout rooms with extensive HD field shooting gear
- Extensive field lighting and grip equipment by Arri, Chimera, Lowel, FilmGear and others
- 18ft Cam Mate Jib with 360 degree rotatable head
- Field dollies and field jib for motion camera support
- Classrooms including one with HD projection and 7.1 surround sound
- Offices for the student newspaper, yearbook, radio station and cable channel
- Faculty offices and engineering office
- Cable TV head-end/engineering room
Software includes:
- Adobe's Creative Suite CS5 with Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver
- Final Cut Pro 7 Suite (Final Cut, Soundtrack, Motion, Color) for film/video projects
- Final Cut X
- Final Draft for scriptwriting
- Storyboard Quick
- EP Budgeting
- Soundtrack, Logic and ProTools software for audio projects
- Computerized reservation, checkout and help-desk system
*In 2010, Taylor invested significantly in new technology. Our introductory students shoot with the same camera that some graduate students use at the University of Southern California, the number-one-ranked film school in the nation. We are blessed to be able to offer state of the art technology to enable students' creative storytelling.