Journal
Notes from the studio floor on equipment, cameras, sound, lighting and keeping live programmes to time.
The journal collects practical writing from our engineers, directors and designers, covering how live studios are built and run. A new article appears about once a day, so there is usually something fresh to read.
Planning Camera Positions for a Two-Guest Live Interview
A practical walk through shot planning for a live interview: where to place cameras, how to brief operators and what to settle before the first guest sits down.
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A Checklist to Work Through Before You Commit to a Lighting Plan
Before signing off a lighting design for a live studio, run through the room, the cameras, the talent and the rig itself. These are the questions we ask first.
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Six Gallery Integration Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Most live gallery faults trace back to decisions made before the first cable is pulled. Here are the integration mistakes we meet most often, and the checks that prevent them.
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What Live Production Workflow Support Costs and What Moves the Price
A plain account of how rundown planning, rehearsal and on-the-day support are priced, which parts of a programme push the figure up, and what to have ready before asking for a quotation.
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A Quiet Room for Loud Mornings: One Studio's Sound Fix
Marcus ran a regional breakfast show from a converted office whose echo swallowed every guest. This is how measuring the room, treating it and moving two microphones changed what viewers heard.
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Camera Crews and Shot Plans for the Darker Months
As the evenings draw in, studio schedules fill up. Priya Sandhu sets out how to plan camera positions, crew rotas and shot lists so autumn and winter broadcasts stay steady.
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Colour temperature on a news set, explained in plain words
Why a presenter's face can look orange under one lamp and grey under another, and how we set kelvin values so every camera in a live studio agrees.
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Fixed Gallery or Flexible Rack: Choosing How to Wire a Studio
Two ways to build a studio gallery, a dedicated fixed installation or a modular rack that can be reconfigured, compared on cost, change and reliability, with a clear recommendation.
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Inside a Live Rundown: How We Prepare a Programme to Run to Time
A look behind the scenes at how rundowns are built, rehearsed and supported on the day, from the first draft in the gallery to the last minute before going on air.
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Why does my studio sound hollow on air, and what can be done about it
The question we hear most about acoustics: why speech sounds boxy on air even with good microphones. Helen Marsden explains what is usually behind it and how it is put right.
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Camera crews and shot planning now available for live bulletins and panels
Our camera operation and direction service gives news bulletins, interviews and multi-camera live shows an experienced crew and a shot plan agreed before the first rehearsal.
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The lighting tools and methods we rely on when rigging a news studio
A look at the fixtures, measuring tools and rigging habits behind our lighting plans, and why each one earns its place when a studio has to look the same from the first bulletin to the last.
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Commissioning a Studio Gallery: A Practical Walk-Through Before Go-Live
A practical guide to testing vision mixers, monitors, intercom and routing as one system, so the gallery is proven end to end before the first live programme goes out.
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Before You Commit: A Checklist for Live Production Workflow Support
A practical list of questions to work through before choosing workflow support for a live programme, covering rundowns, rehearsal, roles and what happens when the broadcast overruns.
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Six Room Mistakes That Spoil Speech on Air, and How to Avoid Them
Most muddy dialogue in a live studio traces back to a handful of avoidable choices made before the first rehearsal. Here is what goes wrong with room acoustics and how to put it right.
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What Camera Crews Cost and What Moves the Price
A plain account of how camera operation and direction is priced for live television, which choices raise or lower the quote, and what to settle before asking for one.
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Lighting a Regional Panel Show: Notes from Rosa's Studio
A short account of how a small regional broadcaster, represented here by its producer Rosa, rebuilt a flat, shadowy panel set with a measured LED plan and a rig that holds steady through long
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