Monday, 6 April 2009
The Screening Room - continuing saga
the story of the Film Studies / FCT screening room continues. Thanks to the tightfistedness of your HoS there is probably enough money in the School budget to fit out a basic screening room in terms of sound and blackout. However, there is no way that we would have enough alone to pay for tiered seating and the creation of a cinema style environment. But the Dean has recently taken this cause up and seems to want to bid for this project in the coming captital bids round and he has asked me to come up with some suggestions for alternative rooms to TAB 116 because he thinks the sound leaking through the walls into other rooms is a probelem. this leaves us with some dilemmas. Do we try to find an alternative room? I can't think of anything really suitable except possibly the lecture theatre in HJB. This is a horrible room but it does have tiered seats and would be easy to black out. Secondly, while it would be great to successfully bid for a capital sum to fund the project fully leaving the School budget looking slightly more healthy, if the bid fails then we are back to square one with less time to get anything done before the next recruitment round. any views or suggestions for alternatives to TAB 116?
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I repeat my assertion that the room is much more important than the equipment. It is my opinion that students care much more about their backsides than their the quality of the picture. I understand that there is an urgent need for this but if we push for somewhere immediately we may end up with a compromise rather than a purpose built room in the new teaching block.
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