Production Resources for Media

Equipment and Labs

The school supports several production facilities for students in the BA (Media and Communications) degree and other MFT students doing production courses, such as Video Production, within the school. These resources are limited and so are only available to students undertaking production courses within the school who have been trained in equipment use and care.

We maintain two multimedia labs, 1 sound lab, 1 stop motion lab, video editing suites, digital stills and video cameras, lighting kits, sound recording equipment. For comprehensive information about production equipment, equipment manuals and borrowing guidelines visit:

Technical Resources Webster Building website at http://trc.arts.unsw.edu.au/

Production permissions and clearance forms

There are two kinds of clearance forms 1. student project performance (PDF) (36 Kb) 2. student project included work (PDF) (51 Kb).

1. Student project performance (Shooting permissions) : During production work you may have to record, interview or photograph someone, if so you need to get them to sign a release form. This form can be downloaded here (PDF) (36 Kb).

2. Student project included work (Copyright clearance) : Occasionally you may want to use work created by other people who own the copyright to their work, if so you will need to get them to sign a copyright release (PDF) (51 Kb) form.

Letter of indemnity

If you are a currently enrolled UNSW student and you require a Letter of Indemnity for your work experience/placement which is a requirement of the course and all work taking place is voluntary, you need to contact your School as a Letter of Indemnity will be issued by the the Course Coordinator/Head of School.

http://www.careers.unsw.edu.au/student/misc/Letter%20of%20Indemnity.pdf (PDF)

Online Guides for various production applications and useful design sites

Many of your course website will provide relevant links for production and design. Here are a few more.

• The Digital Art Practices & Terminology Task Force, DAPTTF glossary
• HTML Dog Guides - HTML Dog - A 'Good Practice' Guide to XHTML and CSS. For those producing websites, there are plenty of online resources.
• W3Schools Online Web Tutorials - A very large site with tutorials for most issues in web development!
• Learn web standards - Another good online resource to help you learn web production. It has some good material for free, and lots of encouragement to purchase their learning materials.
• css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design - Designers are invited to impose visual style on a standard page of XHTML marked up text by using Cascading Style Sheets. The results will convince you to master css yourself!
• Multimedia Critique, Design and Theory by Isabel Pedersen - This is a good resource that gives an annotated survey of recent publications relevant to new media design and theory.
• Creating a web site - a step by step guide
• designplace - web development tutorials - Another resource with some useful tutorials.
• Digital design hub:Design is kinky - Comprehensive and quite inspiring site. Exhibitions of very latest in digital design. Bulletin Board full of technical queries and answers. A must for anyone interested in digital design.