The journal collects practical writing on broadcast production, from camera positions and lamp choices to monitoring and delivery. A new article appears about once a day, and each one aims to be useful on a real shoot.
Live production
A practical walk through the first stage of live event production: the recce, the gallery plan and the crew brief that decide whether a location broadcast runs calmly.
Workflow
Before you commit to a plan for ingest, graphics, playout and delivery, these are the questions we work through with producers so a programme reaches air without surprises.
Lighting
Most lighting problems in a studio are made at the planning stage, long before a lamp is switched on. Here are the recurring ones and the habits that prevent them.
Studio Hire
A plain look at how studio hire for interviews and portraits is priced, which choices raise or lower the quote, and what to settle before you ask for one.
Audio Engineering
A short account of one customer's discussion programme, recorded in a hall with a poor sound reputation, and how capture, mixing and monitoring were planned around the room.
Studio cameras
Shorter days and heavier schedules put extra strain on studio camera setups. A practical look at what to check, rig and rehearse before the winter programme season begins.
Trade terms
A plain-words guide to the running order, the document every crew member on a live event works from, and how it differs from a rundown, a script and a schedule.
Workflow
Two ways to handle ingest, graphics, playout and delivery: settle the chain before the first camera rolls, or sort it out once footage exists. A comparison, with a clear recommendation.
Lighting
A look at the working day behind a broadcast lighting plan: the site visit, the key light decisions, the rig, and the colour checks that happen before a camera rolls.
Studio Hire
Priya Nair answers the question we hear most from producers before a studio day: what exactly is provided, and what should you arrange yourself before the interview?
Company news
Helen Marsden explains how actiora has brought sound planning forward in the production schedule, so capture, mixing and monitoring are settled before crews arrive on the day.
Studio Practice
A look at the pedestals, lenses, cabling and checks we rely on when rigging and running a multi-camera studio, and why we keep the method plain and repeatable.
Live Events
A working list of questions to settle on location, in the gallery and on the network before you commit a crew to a live event broadcast, written from the audio desk.
Workflow
Most delivery problems begin weeks before the shoot. These are the planning errors that cost producers time between ingest and playout, and the habits that prevent them.
Lighting costs
A plain account of how lighting design is priced for studio sets and live events, which choices raise or lower the figure, and what to settle with us before a quotation is written.
Customer story
A short account of Marcus, a local author who booked a half day in our interview studio to record a presenter piece, and what we changed once the camera was running.
Audio Engineering
Cold, damp weather and early dark change how sound behaves on location and in the studio. These notes cover what to check and rehearse before the winter run of broadcasts begins.