The only US film school to be built on a working film lot, the Brooklyn College Barry R Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema has chosen Avid Everywhere to manage its production and postproduction workflows.
Due to open in Q3 2015, the school is housed at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, the largest soundstage complex on the East Coast and home to many film and TV productions. With its infrastructure designed around Avid Everywhere and the MediaCentral Platform, and all postproduction courses will involve students working with Avid systems.
Workflow includes the Avid Interplay | Production asset management system and Avid MediaCentral | UX, a cloud-based, web front-end to the MediaCentral Platform. Together, the workflow will facilitate real-time, cloud-based collaboration between students and faculty from any location. ‘Our curriculum is designed to prepare students for careers in the industry after they graduate, and experience in industry-standard Avid solutions will be a critical factor in their success,’ says Jonathan Wacks, the school’s founding director, and professor of the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema. ‘Avid Everywhere allows us to provide students with the most current and industry-standard tools to perfect their craft. By using the same tools and workflows used in major studios, production companies and editing houses, our students will be fully prepared to hit the ground running when they graduate.’
The Feirstein school has also adopted Avid Storage Suite solutions, with Avid Isis l 7500 shared storage systems delivering the power, reliability, and capacity needed for real-time collaborative workflows.
‘Avid Everywhere enables educational institutions like the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema to prepare students to excel in the competitive, fast-paced entertainment industry,’ says Jennifer Smith, Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer at Avid. ‘Giving students valuable hands-on experience with professional tools and collaborative workflows will give Feirstein graduates the skills they need to thrive in real-world production environments.’
