A first-floor, glass-walled classroom and a smaller, second-floor lab, each fully equipped with Macintosh computers, industry-current Adobe Creative Cloud software and video/audio production equipment, are devoted to independent and fine arts class digital media projects. Critical communication, storytelling and narrative skills are highlighted as students leverage filmmaking and production technology in these centrally located and easily accessible labs.
The first-floor media lab features five digital audio workstations that are equipped with LogicPro X, a professional music editing and producing software; Finale, a professional musical notation software; and full 88-key MIDI keyboards that can be programmed with virtually any sound imaginable. Students enrolled in Blair’s digital music/songwriting class record original compositions on multiple tracks in the recording studio (located adjacent to the media lab), then transfer these compositions to the media lab for editing, mixing and final production.