Isambard Community School TV Studio
Gurch goes Poltergiest
I thought this place was too amazing to not to post about it.
Through my work with Flux, a community arts body embedded in a new School in North Swindon, I have been involved in the research, purchase and installation of a brand new TV studio. Today was the first of three days I, along with Gurchetan Singh, a local film director and Greg, an industry floor manager who apparently once held Brooklyn Beckham, teaching year 8 pupils (12-13 year olds) how to use their new toys.
Don’t get me wrong, this place wouldn’t compete with a big university studio or a professional one but this is a secondary school. They have 3 Sony EX1 camera’s; a large grey reflective curtain (which turns blue, as if by magic when using the blue LED ring around camera 1); a live vision mixer; a mac pro loaded with Final Cut Studio 2 and Kona Capture Card; a hardware chromakey unit and 5 flat panel output monitors (1 per camera, and program output and chroma/quad output display). I am jealous, to say the very least.
Ahhh, when I were a lad…….