Milton Keynes College

Television Studio Design and Installation

Feltech have recently completed the installation of a TV Studio training facility for Milton Keynes College. Like many modern colleges and Universities Milton Keynes is attracting many new students for Media related courses. A large part of the course involves teaching students about the process involved in the making of television programmes, including production techniques and all the technical aspects such as lighting, sound, cameras, vision mixing etc. To make this possible Feltech’s brief was to design a system that would look, feel and operate like a real broadcast TV studio but at the same time be user friendly for students and fit within an educational budget.

The gallery space is designed to be ergonomic for both operation and for teaching. It consists of a seven bay MW Video Studio Console, housing a Snell & Wilcox Magic DaVE vision mixer and DVE, an engineering position with CCU’s, switcher, waveform and vector scope and a graded picture monitor. Full production preview monitoring is provided, along with intercom talkback to Studio, Sound control and six non-linear edit suites. Musafield video patch bays provide all the usual flexibility for the system and offer tieline links to the Edit suites. A BDL Autoscript PC base prompting system has been installed which offers dual control from the gallery or locally from a foot switch in the Studio.

The JVC GY-550 DV cameras were chosen for their dual use as full studio units with CCU’s and as a Professional DV ENG camcorders. The studio has three cameras mounted on Vinten Vision 8 Tripods with full Fujinon EFP remote controls. One camera is fitted with a BDL Autoscript LCD prompt unit. All the cameras are fully wired with talkback and the Studio has multiple plug-in points for microphones and reverse audio. A dual cyclorama track was installed to give a choice of either a white cyclorama or chromakey blue backdrop.

As in a real facility, sound control is in a separate room with is own consol housing a program video monitor, LX 7 Soundcraft mixing desk, CD, DAT, near-field monitors and full jackfield patch bays.

The project was completed in September 2002 ready for the Academic Term.

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