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Filmmaking Facilities & Services at UCL

in the Anthropology Department Visual Laboratory


Cameras and Filming Equipment

We have

1. Eight Sony PD170 camera kits fully equipped with:

  • External Microphones
  • Wide angle lens adapters
  • Additional batteries
  • Carrying cases
  • Instruction manuals
 
  • Boom poles & shock mounts
  • Tripods
  • Headphones
  • Radio microphones

These are sturdy and reliable standard definition cameras recording to 60-minute MiniDV or 40-minutes DVCAM tapes


2. Nine x Panasonic HMC41E camera kits fully equipped with:

  • External Microphones
  • Wide angle lens adapters
  • Additional batteries
  • Carrying cases
  • Instruction manuals
  • XLR input microphone adapter Beech Box
 
  • Tripods
  • Boom poles & pistol grips
  • Headphones
  • Radio microphones
  • 32 Gigabytes of card based storage

These are state of the art (2011) AVCHD tapeless cameras recording to 2 x SDHC 16GB cards, higher resolution than HDV.

3. A selection of cardioid and hypercardioid (directional & shotgun). microphones, boom poles and XLR cables

4. 4 sets of Sennheiser radio microphones

5. 5 SteadyWings hand-held camera mounts

5. 1 Handycam steady mount.

6. 4 Monopods & rotating pistol grips


Editing Suites

We have

1. Nine Mac based Final Cut Pro 3 workstations (using Final Cut v.7.0) supported by four tape decks

2. A 52-inch flat screen playback monitor.


Mentoring, advice and supervision

Dr Michael Yorke can provide this to anyone involved in film production, giving assistance with proposals, scripting, narrative structure, visualisation, executive advice at assembly, rough cut, fine cut and outputting phases of production to maximise receptivity and achieve broadcast quality.


Technical facilities and assistance

We can provide assistance with digitising, streaming and web output.


Archiving and storage

We can archive and store completed media files.

This equipment and services are available at cost to all members of the Anthropology Department through a booking system organised by Treasa O Brien, email treasa@opencitylondon.com

Module students and workshop participants paying the laboratory fee have full use of this equipment for the duration of their course. 

For non-departmental personnel at UCL it is available at cheap costs to cover servicing, repair and replacement. For details and rates email treasa@opencitylondon.com