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htmlText_937DAC0A_B533_E635_41DA_9BF3824A68C5.html = The MIX Center and The Plaza at Mesa City Center are designed to be a public art space for all. The 90 foot high resolution LED screen will be used for generative art throughout the day along with being used for outdoor screenings, ESports tournaments, events, and much more. Around the 118,000 sq-ft building, you will also see low resolution LED and video textures. Across the MIX Center is The Plaza at Mesa City Center - which features a 2-acre public park, water feature, seasonal ice skating rink, event lawn, restrooms, and shaded areas.
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Welcome to the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the largest comprehensive design and arts school in the nation, located within a dynamic 21st-century research university. With almost 8,000 students, more than 750 faculty and faculty associates, over 200 staff members, more than 125 degree options and a tradition of top-ranked programs, we are redefining the 21st-century design and arts school. Our college is built on a combination of disciplines unlike any other program in the nation, comprising the Schools of: Art; Arts, Media and Engineering; Music, Dance and Theatre; The Design School, The Sidney Poitier New American Film School; and the ASU Art Museum.
Contact Information for the Herberger Institute at the Tempe Campus
Herberger Administrative Office: +1 (480) 965-6536
Herberger Admissions and Recruitment Office: HerbergerAdmissions@asu.edu, +1 (480) 727-4757
Herberger Advising Services: +1 (480) 965-4495
Address: Dixie Gammage Hall (GHALL), Room 132
1001 S. Forest Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287-2102
Credits:
Narration by Jasmine L., 3rd year Graphic Design student
Photos done by various photographers
The Sidney Poitier New American Film School at the Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center
50 N Centennial Way, Mesa, AZ 85201
The Sidney Poitier New American Film School operates across three cities: ASU’s Tempe campus, the ASU California Center in downtown Los Angeles, and the MIX Center in Mesa, Arizona. The school will operate its production and post-production activities out of the MIX Center.
The world-class Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center in Mesa, Arizona, which opened in fall 2022, hosts hundreds of students from The Sidney Poitier New American Film School and other schools within the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts who will be making films, designing new virtual worlds and video games, and creating other immersive media experiences of all kinds.
The MIX Center is part of the ASU at Mesa City Center complex, a collaboration between ASU and Mesa, Arizona, a city rich in history, art, community and industry. The MIX Center is located in the Salt River Valley on the ancestral homelands of those American Indian tribes that have inhabited this place for centuries, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) peoples, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. (For more information please see ASU Commitment to American Indian Tribes.) Located in the heart of Mesa’s Innovation District, the site serve as a laboratory for advanced media technologies and media production, a platform for game development and a driving force for entrepreneurial solutions. It will also be an open and inviting place for the public as well as a source of inspiration, entertainment and education.
The ASU at Mesa City Center complex also includes The Studios at Mesa City Center, an inclusive community space open to all, and the three-acre Plaza at Mesa City Center. Geared toward Mesa community members as well as students, faculty and staff interested in launching new ideas and seeking a connection space, the J. Orin Edson Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute at ASU provides resources and programs to support current and aspiring entrepreneurs. The Plaza at Mesa City Center provides a public park with an event lawn, splash pad and shade structures. Situated in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, this complex will connect students, faculty and Mesa residents through community, industry and art.
Here, a new generation of creators from Arizona and beyond will develop into the media and technology professionals we need in the 21st century.
As you enter, you are greeted to the inside of the “pre-function” lobby. This lobby serves as a gallery and reception space before you enter the theater.
Both Soundstage 2 and 3 are essentially identical. At 2,043 square feet apiece, both are up to industry standard for acoustic isolation, power distribution, dimmable lighting, overhead grids, and also feature the 15,000 pound Elephant Doors for easy load in and load out access. Preparations are being made to install a full size virtual production volume in Soundstage 3. The Mandalorian was one of the first major productions to utilize virtual production technology - so this will be a remarkable addition to the space - especially at an academic facility.
Each hallway contains at least 5 high end editing bays that have 24/7 Sun Card access.
In this lab our students count with the most advanced Avid Media Composer editing solution suite available in the market: Avid Symphony. All 30 systems in this macintosh based environment worked directly from our fiber connected Avid Nexis Central storage that runs throughout all classrooms and labs in the Mix building, allowing a complete integrated workflow from ingesting and media selection to delivering final Films and videos at high resolution quality.
One of them is the Foley Stage (247B) - which is used for recording sounds in sync with the picture by a professional named Foley Artist. This is a technique that is currently used in most of the films, tv shows and games you listen to. The Foley pits, for instance, have different materials such as grass, concrete, gravel, dirt etc. that, with the artist’s shoes, make the footsteps and its variations sound natural and match the creative intent of the acting. All other sorts of sounds can be created in this space, including water-related ones using the built-in tub. Depending on the sound, it’s faster and more organic to use this technique rather than commercial sound effects libraries. Since the focus is set in on capturing dialog, almost every sound you listen to on screen is done in post-production.
For all inquiries about audio at the MIX Center, please visit mix.asu.edu.
Professionally equipped 1,200-square-foot high-end recording, mixing and teaching studios capable of designing professional-quality audio for film, television, streaming, games and music, as well as ambisonic sound for interactive and immersive experiences. This state of the art audio suite has three control room spaces that are part of a building-wide file-based workflow and shared storage. The main control room works as a 25-seats classroom for hands-on mixing, recording and sound appreciation classes.
Students of The Sidney Poitier New American Film School may access this equipment room to reserve and check out state-of-the-art industry standard cameras, lenses, lighting, grip, sound equipment and more for their creative projects. A variety of professional cinema camera ecosystems are available to students for use on their projects including Arri, RED, Sony, Blackmagic, Canon, and more. Large assortments of LED and traditional lighting sources are also accessible, as well as all needed accessories - making nearly anything possible, whether shooting on location or in a soundstage.
Thank you for taking the time to tour the Herberger Institute facililities - we hope you enjoyed this virtual visit.
If you have quesitons about the admission process or have questions about the Herberger Insititute, please feel free to contact us via email at HerbergerAdmissions@asu.edu or call 480-727-4757.
The 5 recording (“live”) spaces can be used for narration voice-over and ADR (Automated Dialog Replacing - a film technique where telents replace their dialog line in post-production), sound effects design and some music settings.
The Cafe will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner with assorted beverages.
The Community Room is a space programmed by the Mesa Community Advisory Board - which is a demographically representative group of all 4 zip codes that surround Downtown Mesa. This room will be used for community meetings, receptions, exhibitions, events, and more. Reservation inquiries will go through the Mesa Community Advisory Board.
The Enhanced Immersion Studio is a four-story, 3,200 square foot studio serving as a high-end performance venue and an experimental media space, equipped with cutting-edge rigging, lighting and audiovisual systems. Think of this space as a leading-edge hybrid of a theatrical blackbox crossed with a film soundstage. Featuring power and data everywhere, this space has automated rigging plaques, a 360-degree projection drum, and an immersive spatial sound array using ambisonics.
The 2nd floor catwalk is fire-code and ADA compliant for up to 60 audience members. This space is like no other and will serve as a blank canvas for generations of artists to come.
For more information about technical use at the MIX Center, please visit us at mix.asu.edu.
The Fabrication Lab is a makerspace focused around student, faculty, and community learning where individuals can prototype solutions for various creative projects. Designed to promote the experimental use of digital fabrication technologies within film, immersive media, visual effects, design and the arts the lab hosts a wide array of digital and traditional fabrication tools and technologies. The first half of the room consists of circuits, soldering stations, workbenches, and building spaces equipped with articulating fume hoods. The second half of the room houses an assortment of studio quality 3D printing processes including high resolution resin printing and full color printing capabilities, CO2 laser cutters, vinyl cutting, desktop milling, and large format printing.
The Ideation Studio - a charette area that is set up to be the best brainstorming space for creatives to execute their work. For more information about using the Fablab, please visit mix.asu.edu.
The Soundstage is a 3,165 square foot production studio of professional quality featuring top-notch and industry standard acoustic isolation, power distribution, automated hoist-style lighting grids, DMX/dimmable lighting infrastructure, a large seamless green screen, and more. Any Hollywood or commercial production can move their project in this space and not find anything missing in terms of the scale, quality, acoustic insulation, and power distribution. This is the largest of the 4 sound stages in the building.
The acoustic insulation throughout the walls of all soundstages contain a layer of quilt, two layers of drywall, 1 layer of foam, and a floating cinder block wall that’s held by a rubber bracket. Sounds that reach 165 decibels, which is the equivalent of a jet engine, are not heard outside of the soundstage. All soundstages on the first floor (Stages 1, 2, and 3) are equipped with 15,000 pound Elephant Doors - which can allow easy load in and load out access for a 26-foot box truck. The backlot features recessed bollards that can allow for public or private access. This backlot area serves as a gathering space with seating and a courtyard.
The first of two theaters in the MIX Center, this is a 76-seat movie theater that features 1,900 square feet of Dolby Atmos Production Certified Sound and Video. The MIX Center is one of the few educational institutions in North America that not only has one of these Dolby certified credentials, but both.
This theater is equipped with an 8K laser projector and Meyer Sound speaker system, and is outfitted with both color grading and mixing consoles that can be used for audio and video post-production (mixing, editing & color grading). This room is also used as part of the film production workflow as well as a teaching space for film capstone projects and a sort of classes that require screening as a resource.
The lobby is designed to make sure the whole space will be active at all times. Both sides of the large glass panels can be accordioned out and become an open walkway. Being a hackable space, marine plywood planks can be seen throughout the floor and behind every fifth plank is power and data. These planks can be easily removed for interactive installations.
The other two are mirrored and project-based, allowing simultaneous types of booking for student and industry projects. The control rooms are equipped with Avid S6 control surfaces, 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos Immersive Audio, cutting-edge audio monitoring with Genelec “The Ones” speakers, one of the industry standards , and Dante Audio Over IP protocol, allowing you to play, record, and mix audio anywhere in the building. All control rooms can be connected together simultaneously or can all run separately.
The production shop houses all wood and metal fabrication featuring all of the newest state of the art tools and equipment such as a 4x8 ShopBot CNC Router, Waze Water Jet, 4x4 Plasma Table, welding capabilities and much more. For acoustic purposes on the 2nd floor, the engineering of the ceiling in this space is like no other. The ceiling has a layer of tectum, two layers of drywall, an 8-inch concrete slab, a 3-inch foam slab, and a 6-inch concrete slab. For more information about using the Production Shop, please visit mix.asu.edu.
The third floor is primarily modular for administrative and classroom use. Right outside the Administrative Suite is a social space that features couches and chairs for students to lounge out, a dining table, and a large flat screen TV with next gen gaming consoles.
These two spaces are dedicated to providing our students and productions with a comfortable color grading environment where our focus is exclusively on color. The two resolve black magic operating surfaces in a completely neutral environment provide the best space to apply color correction and the right emotional and artistic look with the color grading process. We also have available in these suites the software Baselight from Filmlight in all our grading spaces, this way our students can learn to use the leading tools in use, for fast professional integration into the market.
This computer lab has 30 individual workstations primarily used for teaching and learning audio. Each student station is outfitted with its own digital audio interface, MIDI keyboard, and channel strip + fader controller. The classroom is equipped with 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos Immersive Audio for teaching and playback.
The two Digital Media Studios next to this one have the same seats’ capacity and are forwarded respectively to video editing, color grading & VFX, and animation, XR & gaming. In total, two of the labs are equipped with Macs and one with PCs.
This computer lab is equipped with 30 individual windows operating system workstations. It provides all necessary software to design and render customizable visual effects for all formats and resolutions. Rotoscoping, Matte painting, Chroma keying & Compositing with central fiber based central storage network infrastructure provides to our students the tools to effectively accomplish any visual effects needed.
This edit bays provide Avid Media Composer and Adobe after Effects Editing capabilities networked through o ur Avid Nexis Central Storage, also each one of the bays have a mini color grade control panel from Da Vinci Resolve where our Students have an industry quality workstation dedicated exclusively to editing and color grading their productions and films at their disposal at all times, in the spaces we also offer Baselight software systems to have available the best from the color grading solutions for all our students. All these software together with a wide array of plug-ins and the hardware solution of its vectorscopes and waveforms and accurate JBL nearfield speakers provide an excellent space for the most demanding editing productions. Their integration with Avid Nexis allows the complete integration of media files playout with quick project sharing capabilities for quick and fast access to the Color grading Suites or any of the other rooms in the building, facilitating all the post production workflow needed with fast, transparent and reliable communication.
This is a 1,034 square foot soundstage primarily used for motion capture and quick photo or video sessions.
This space has everything you need for your performers - dressing rooms, lockers, full showers, a steamer, mirrors with customizable color temperature settings and a room for quick alterations and scenic fabric work.
This space is set up to teach color grading and theory primarily for film. The room seats 25 people and each wall features a neutral gray shade of 50% - the most neutral color palette available for professional Colorists to work on a project. All of the final assembly for our Mix projects come together in this room, VFX’s, Color Grading and Sound Mixes for review and approval as well as Quality Control check up. Being as powerful as it is, we did not forget the central educational aspect of this special suite, with its central camera to enable surface operation to be shown in the lateral TVs, or the color grading interface, or both (as you needed) to provide an excellent understanding of the system’s operation. The possibility to see the grading being output to the Color Grade 1 professional monitor enables our students to view the result of their work in all professional color spaces required to successfully and accurately finish their work knowing exactly what is going to be viewed by the final audiences once the final product is delivered to the end distributor. The Color Grading and Finishing Suite is also Dolby Atmos ready, this means that directors will be able to see and hear the best possible outcome from their projects before final distribution in this post production dedicated space.
Welcome to Screening Theater! Coming in at 5,100 sq ft, this theater has 261 seats and comes fully equipped with Dolby Atmos Production Certified Audio. What this means is that if you edit your project from beginning to end here, you would have the official Dolby stamp at the end of your film! This space has many amazing features such as: theatrical stage lighting, programmable lights, an 8K laser projector, Meyer Sound high quality production speakers system, a color grading system featuring DaVinci Resolve and Baselight control surfaces, and Theatrical Audio Mixing capacity with Pro Tools and Avid S6 control surface that can be used for post-production audio mixing and editing. This room is integrated with the whole building as part of the film production IP workflow. As the screening room on the first floor, this room is also used as a teaching space for film capstone projects and similar classes that require high-level screening as a resource. The Color Grading surface with Da Vince Resolve onboard in a dedicated workstation provides the ease and convenient workflow to also Color Correct & Grade in real time your film projecting it into our big screen and see the results of your work without further delays nor having to go anywhere else. A fun fact about this space is that it is the 2nd largest non-IMAX screen in Arizona!