Notes on studio design, camera control, lighting and sound, written by the people who build and run these set-ups.
Our articles cover the practical side of broadcast and live work: room layouts, microphone placement, lighting for camera and the run sheets that keep a show on track. A new piece appears about once a day.
Lighting
A step-by-step guide to planning studio lighting on paper before anything is rigged: positions, heights, colour temperature and a plot your crew can read on the day.
Live Sound
Before you book a sound engineer for a live event or a recorded broadcast, work through these questions on the room, the microphones, the mixes and the check itself.
Event Production
Helen Marsh looks at the slips that most often unsettle a live event, from load-in to finish, and the plain habits that keep video, audio and lighting teams working together.
Studio Design
A plain look at how studio design is priced, from floor plans and racks to crew workflow, and which decisions make a project cheaper or more expensive.
Customer Story
A short story about Rachel, who ran a monthly community broadcast from a hall with a crew of two, and how remote camera heads and a compact vision mixer changed her Sundays.
Workflow Planning
Priya Shah explains how to prepare run sheets, signal flow diagrams and handover notes in these weeks, so every department starts the darker months on the same plan.
Lighting Terms
A lighting plot looks like a technical drawing, but it is really a plan. Tom explains its symbols, circuits and focus notes in plain words, so you can follow one at your next production meeting.
Live Sound
Two common ways to staff front-of-house sound for a live event or recorded broadcast, set side by side, with a plain recommendation from the person who plans these shows.
Live Events
A camera technician describes how video, audio and lighting teams are lined up on an event day, from the first van at the loading door to the final cable coiled and counted.
Studio Design
The question we hear most about studio design is what a designer needs to know first. Tom Harding sets out the answers that shape floor plans, set layouts and equipment racks.
Company news
How we configure remote camera heads, vision mixing and control panels so that two or three people can run a multi-camera show calmly, and what we check before the first rehearsal.
Workflow Planning
Priya Shah explains the written tools our crews rely on when planning a show: run sheets, signal flow diagrams and handover notes, and how each one is built and kept current.
Lighting
Priya Shah sets out the questions worth answering before a studio set, concert or festival stage is lit: camera needs, rigging limits, power, crew and sign-off.
Live Sound
A technician's notes on the live sound errors that cost events their clarity, from rushed line checks to monitor levels, with practical ways to prevent each one.
Event Production
A plain look at how coordinating video, audio and lighting crews for concerts, festivals and corporate parties is priced, and which decisions push a quotation up or down.
Customer Case
Anna runs a small online interview show and had outgrown her spare room. This is how we redrew her studio around the way she and her two helpers actually work.
