Equipment and Facilities

The 2,738 square foot soundstage is three stories high with a 15-foot-high catwalk and a 24-foot high ceiling with ETC lighting system. The space is designed to provide professional learning opportunities to students in directing, cinematography, audio work, lighting work and aesthetics.

Housed in the soundstage is an 18' Stanton Jimmy Jib with a pan/tilt moving camera mount.

The Netflix show Mindhunter seasons 1 and 2 filmed in Pittsburgh. Netflix donated one of the sets to Point Park's Department of Cinema Arts after the production wrapped.

The set was designed to be a suburban house in the 1980s. It includes an exterior porch, interior living room, dining room, hallway, bedroom and kitchen.

The soundstage has two green screens, a 16'x60' and a 24'x60,' and industry standard lighting fixtures including Arri S60 Sky Panels, Arri S30 Sky Panels and Gemini Light Panels.

24-by-72-foot professional grade studio/soundstage includes 10-foot-high lighting grid, seamless two-wall hard cyclorama.

The makeup/wardrobe room has five lighted makeup stations. It also provides privacy for actors to stand by and prepare for the upcoming scene.

The West Penn Hall production studio is a 46 foot x 26 feet production space with a 22 foot wide green screen wall and floor.

Five individual edit suites with Mac Studio computers, speakers and dual monitors. Each suite is equipped with Adobe Creative Suite, Avid Media Composer, Avid Pro Tools, DaVinci Resolve and Izotope RX software.

The primary color correction suite includes a Mac Studio, DaVinci Resolve software, Color Grading Control Surfaces with Tangent Element Control Panels and Tangent Ripple Controller. The room is equipped with a professional calibrated Flanders monitor, multiple monitors and a 78-inch TV.

The secondary color correction suite includes a Mac Studio, DaVinci Resolve software, Color Grading Control Surface, a professional calibrated Flanders monitor and dual monitors.

The three Mac edit labs have a total of 60 Mac Studios and iMacs with Adobe Creative Suite, Avid Media Composer, Avid Pro tools and DaVinci Resolve.

In addition to the editing and post-production software, we have industry-standard Movie Magic software installed for producing students installed in our University Center Mac lab.

The main sound mixing room is 23'x14' with 5.1 surround monitoring, an Avid S4 mixing console, Avid Protools Ultimate, an Avid MTRX Interface, Dolby Atmos, Mac Studio, an extensive selection of audio mixing plugins, a 90" video monitor and dual computer monitors.

The secondary sound mixing room has a 5.1 surround monitoring, an Avid Artist control surface, Avid Protools Ultimate, an Avid MTRX Interface, Dolby Atmos, Mac Studio, an extensive selection of audio mixing plug-ins, dual monitors and a 42" video monitor.

The Foley/ADR control room has a Focusrite Scarlett 1280 interface, Avid Pro tools and dual monitors.

The Foley/ADR recording room has a foley pit, prop wall and a 42" video monitor for performers to sync ADR and Foley.

The writer's room is where screenwriting students can workshop their screenplays in a professional setting. It includes two 60" Full HD Smart LED TV's, HD webcam capabilities for virtual sessions and power outlets at the table for laptops.

The writer's room is where screenwriting students can workshop their screenplays in a professional setting. It includes two 60" Full HD Smart LED TV's, HD webcam capabilities for virtual sessions and power outlets at the table for laptops.

The GRW Theater seats 212 people, includes high-definition projection and Dolby 5.1 surround sound.

The 30 seat West Penn Hall screening room includes high-definition projection and Dolby 5.1 surround sound.

A screening room that seats 56 people, includes high-definition projection and Dolby 5.1 surround sound.