Facilities & Equipment

Located in the central Sydney district of Waterloo, and area with tremendous cultural heritage and creative energy, Sydney Film School is housed in a spacious warehouse only minutes away from excellent transport links. In addition to providing teaching, rehearsal, and student common areas, the Sydney Film School premises afford students the opportunity to design and build large film sets in a production studio, and watch films in a 100-seat cinema.

                                 

For all their individual and group film projects, Sydney Film School students have free access to industry standard equipment including:
 

Film Cameras

  • Arri SR II Super 16mm
  • Arri ST 16mm
  • Bolex Paillard H16
  • Bolex Paillard
     

Film Camera Accessories and Lenses

  • Satchler 7+7 150 mm Fluid Head
  • Ronford-Baker Tall Legs
  • Ronford-Baker Baby Legs
  • Ronford-Baker Spreader
  • Carl Zeiss Super Speed MKII Lens Kit
  • Carl Zeiss 12-120 Zoom Lens Kit
  • Universal Follow Focus Kit
  • Arriflex 400-Foot Magazines


Digital Cameras

  • Panasonic P2 HD (AG-HPX172EN)
  • Sony HDV V1P
  • Sony PD 170
     

Digital Video Camera Accessories

  • Letus Elite 35mm Adaptor Kit
  • Proaim Follow Focus Sunshade Kit
  • Manfrotto 501 Fluid Head Tripod
  • Wide Angle Lens for Sony PD170
  • Panasonic P2 R-series 16GB Card
  • Panasonic Battery Charger-AC Adaptor


Stills Film Cameras

  • Nikon F3
  • Olympus OM-1
  • 28-85mm Zoom Lenses


Lights and Lightmeters

  • Arri “Blondie” 2K
  • Redheads 800w
  • Arri Fresnells 300w
  • Kino Flo 4-Bank
  • Sekonic Dualmaster L-758 light meter
  • Sekonic Dualmaster L-558 light meter


Lighting Accessories

  • Poly Boards
  • Blacks
  • Manfrotto Collapsible Reflector
  • Double and Single Black Net
  • White Net
  • China Silk Net
     

Sound Equipment:

  • Sound Devices 722 Digital Recorder
  • Sound Devices 702 Digital Recorder
  • Sennheiser ME66 Kit
  • Rode NTG-2 Kit


Grip Gear

  • Western Dolly
  • C-Stands
  • Extension Arms
  • Shot Bags


Post production facilities at Sydney Film School include dedicated edit suites running Final Cut Pro HD, After Effects, Mbox with Pro Tools, and DVD Studio Pro on Apple Power Mac G5s. Students will also edit productions using Steenbeck flat bed edit tables and Magna-tech audio dubbing machines in a fully equipped film editing facility.

Budgets allocated to projects can also pay for the hire of other specialised equipment as required.

Sydney Film School houses a resource and reference library which includes an extensive collection of local and international audio visual materials, industry journals and reference books.