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Regent
University Unveils New Communications Facility
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Business
July 2003
Virginia
Beach-based Regent University unveiled its new $35 million
Communications facility at a gala media event in March.
The 146,000 square foot facility features a 706-seat
theatre as well as a film and television studio, sound
stage, dance studio, and a spacious back lot area for
set design and backstage production capabilities. The
building is the second largest at the university and
is expected to attract outside professional theatre
troupes, reduce production costs and effectively prepare
students to use the cutting edge technical equipment
used by the entertainment industry.
The
Georgian style building has approximately $6 million
worth of highly technical production equipment, including
digital cameras, non-linear editing systems, lighting
packages, and classrooms outfitted with editing and
screening equipment. In addition, the building includes
two film-screening rooms, a film sound stage, 13 editing
suites, a camera acting studio and a computer animation
room. To attract cultural offerings, the facility also
has a spiral lift orchestra pit, an experimental black
box theatre, dressing rooms and a make-up room.
Other
programs at the university will benefit from the new
building. Broadcast journalism students will have the
opportunity to write and produce a local news program;
and professional writing students will have two new
computer labs where they will learn how to write and
design content specifically for the Internet. In addition
to supporting the arts, the building will also house
Regent’s Computer Services Department and the Center
for Instructional Technology Support.
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