Yeah, the Halls aren't cheap (or the nice ones, at least) and I really don't want to have to look for a flat or something in the first year. Then again, it's a lot cheaper than London, but I suppose nearly everywhere is!
That'd be horrible, I don't know how I would cope if I had got stuck with film! I think the visual communications area does introductions to film, but it's nothing major. There are media students on the floor below us (there are soooo many stairs to the top floor!) though, so maybe film arty people use those facilities.
Ooh, you could try acrylic transfer printing at home too
It looks really good if it works properly. You basically print off an image onto paper (low-quality paper seems to work best), cover the printed side in white acrylic, then stick it face-down onto a piece of white paper. Then you peel it off, and the ink should have transferred onto the paper underneath. The printer paper can get stuck to it though, so if you leave it to dry completely you can rub the paper bits off after. If you want to do it properly, you need to make sure it's the ink that's transferred and the printer paper hasn't just gone really thin so you can see the ink underneath. If that happens and you try to rub the paper off, there'll be no transferred ink, but sometimes I just leave it as it is 'cause it takes a bit of effort to do it properly and I can be lazy