Using Media School equipment and websites
The Media School provides professional-grade equipment and online publishing platforms for students to train on.
Equipment checkout
Connect2 is The Media School’s online system for reserving equipment such as cameras and tripods, as well as editing bays. Franklin Hall and RTV have available items and locations to check out. You must be enrolled in a class that requires this equipment for projects to check out equipment.
Please check Connect2 for fall and spring semester hours. The equipment checkouts are closed during the summer.
Checkout locations
Both Franklin Hall and the Radio-TV Building have an equipment checkout location with differing items available to students.
Franklin Hall’s equipment room securely stores cameras, accessories, and other hardware for student use.
Students in visual communication classes have access to more than 250 Canon R7 mirrorless cameras and lavalier microphones for photography and video projects.
For advanced multimedia storytelling and video photojournalism classes, students check out Canon R6 cameras and shotgun microphones.
Broadcast students can use Canon XF-405 cameras to gather broadcast-quality video and audio.
For our audio storytelling classes, where students produce long-form stories, students can choose from an array of digital audio recorders and microphones.
The Radio-TV equipment checkout is stocked with a wide range of film production tools.
Various camera types are available for student use. Students can check out a Canon 80d, 6d, or XF605 for beginner film classes or a Canon C300 Mark iii for advanced film classes. Students interested in working with film cameras can check out a 16mm Bolex, 16mm Arri S, 16mm Arri BL, Pro8mm, or Super 8.
In terms of lighting, students have access to new 300x Lightstorms that come kitted with a Frensel lens and a Softbox, Pavo tube Nanlite kits, and various lighting kits from brands such as Arri and Dracast. Advanced film students also have access to two JAB Hurricane Lights.
For audio, students can use various specialty microphones and Mix-Pre devices for audio capture.
Available accessories include C-stands and adapters, scrims, flags, silks, reflectors, apple boxes, sandbags, high hats, and gaffer’s tape.
Technology resources for students
Is it your first time using a camera? Are you unsure whether your personal laptop can handle the game design software used in your classes? Check out these resources below.
Websites
Some Media School courses will require you to publish work to course websites. And if you're a graduate student, you have a profile on our online directory that you can populate and update.