OFDIT Media Studio

Faculty teaching at CUNY SPS are encouraged to add instructor-created video content to their online and hybrid courses. To support these efforts, please consider booking the OFDIT Media Studio, a professional recording space to create a variety of instructional content.

Click to view the Studio Orientation video

Book a Session

Are you interested in creating an introduction, an overview, a lecture series, or an interview? If so, the OFDIT Media Team can support you.  Please email us to reserve the studio: FacultySupport@sps.cuny.edu

Studio Equipment

  • Canon XA10 HD video recorder
  • iCue Teleprompter (iPad with glass reflector)
  • Green, Blue, or Gray Background
  • Adjustable intensity, 3-Point Lighting system
  • A selection of high quality microphones to fit any recording scenario

Example Productions

Watch Dr. Michael Fitzgerald, professor of philosophy at the CUNY SPS, introduce the studio and its potential uses.

Academy Award winning actress Ariana DeBose portrayed the 1860’s women’s rights activist Frances Harper, in a Nov. 2019 collaboration with New York-Historical Society.

(From left) Ariana Debose. Austin Thornton, Laura Mogulescu, and Matt Lewis (photo by Valerie Paley)

An example before/after green screen still taken from Dr. Joseph Foy’s Faculty Introduction video.

Left – Dr. Foy’s studio recording & Right – Still from Dr. Foy’s final video.

Prof. Nagawiecki, Museum Education and Interpretation, conducted an interview series with museum experts.

Mia Nagawiecki (right), Vice President for Education, and Leah Charles-Edouard (left), Senior Manager of the Academy for American Democracy, both of New-York Historical Society discuss educational field trips at N-YHS.