Facilities
Industry-standard facilities available at CBS
Fashion Factory
The practical fashion modules are taught in our purpose-built studio, the Fashion Factory. Equipped with contemporary, industrial machinery used for the design and production of fashion items, the Fashion Factory includes an industry-standard computer-aided design (CAD) system for fashion and textile design, pattern making and retail merchandising.
From guidance on design management to creating fashion illustrations, the university's fashion business team is equipped with the facilities and know-how to solve any problem. A Lectra CAD suite can be provided to businesses for design, pattern development and visual merchandising. In addition, a helping hand can be extended in choosing the right colours and fabrics, with shape consultation and garment simulation completing the package.
Audio/Video Studio
Our dedicated studio facilities for video and audio production offer training using up-to-date digital equipment. Industry-standard facilities including our new, purpose-built multimedia newsroom to produce television and radio news packages.
Technical facilities for Practical Journalism
Newsroom: 20 Dell PCs with QuarkXpress 5 & Adobe In Design page production software, MS Office, Adobe Acrobat, MS Internet Explorer, Dreamweaver web creation software, Wordpress blog/WCMS, Photoshop Elements, Burli radio news editing system, PA newswire feed, IRN radio news feed, 2 x Audition digital audio editing / Avid digital video edit suites, Digital TV and radio monitors with playout link from adjacent TV and radio studios, DVD player, freeview box, phone books, reference directories, daily newspapers and weekly magazines; 6 Fuji / Sony / Nikon digital stills cameras; 4 phones.
Radio production: Clyde Broadcast Synergy Bronze digital radio studio & hard-disk playout system, in audio soundproof studio (accommodates 3), plus control booth & Audition 2 control/edit system, 10 X HHB MDP500 Portadisc Mini Disc Reporter-Recorder kits, 10 x Sony MZR900 mini-disc recorder kits, 10 x Adobe Audition digital audio edit suites (2 in newsroom), one voiceover booth.
TV production: 10 x Panasonic AG-DVX100 Mini DV digital camcorders, 10 x Vinten Pro Tripods, 10 x Avid XP Pro digital video editing suites, with digital/analog miniDV/VHS-SVHS conversion recorders (2 of these installed in newsroom), TV studio with blue screen, autocue & graphics/titling software, with digital HD refurbishment commencing Summer 08, rostrum camera, lights, rifle & boom mics, other ancillaries.
Communications & Media Laboratory
This digital mass media facility was created to support the delivery of high-quality research outputs. These are focused on key areas of contemporary popular culture, including the significantly under-researched area of radio, within a UK framework and, more crucially, on an international, trans-cultural basis.
It builds on an already established track record in research in areas such as mediated (international) sport, television serials and drama, and media representations of monarchy, and will in future include new areas such as comparative analyses of situation comedy covering the EU, North America and Australia.
