Live Events
Building a Technical Run Sheet for a Live Broadcast Event
A practical walk through the first part of live event technical planning: how to build a run sheet your crew can follow cold, from first cue to the final fade.
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Technical articles for production teams covering studio design, camera control, lighting, audio and workflow, written by the consultants who plan these systems for clients.
A new article appears about once a day, each focused on one practical problem in broadcast or live production. Choose a guide below to read it in full.
Sound
Sound Engineering Support: A Checklist to Work Through Before You Decide
Before you commit to outside audio help, these are the questions on microphones, mixing and monitoring that are worth settling with your team, so the brief you write is the one you need.
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Camera Control
Common Mistakes When Setting Up Remote Camera Control
Priya Shah goes through the errors that most often undermine remote camera control setups, from network planning to operator habits, and explains how to avoid each one before air.
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Lighting costs
What a Lighting Plot Costs and What Moves the Price
A plain account of how lighting plots for news sets, talk shows and live stages are priced, and the choices that make a plot cheaper or dearer to produce.
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Customer story
A Regional Newsroom Studio Reworked Around Its Sightlines
Daniel Okafor describes how a small regional news team planned a refitted studio with us, and what the layout, sightline and cabling choices changed for the people working in it.
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Workflow
Reviewing Your Production Workflow Before the Winter Schedule Starts
Mid autumn is a sensible moment to look at how content travels from camera to transmission, before the busy winter weeks leave no room to change anything.
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Live Events
What a Run Sheet Is, and What Belongs on One
A plain-words explanation of the technical run sheet used in live broadcast events: what it records, who reads it, and how to keep it useful once the show is running.
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Sound Engineering
Close Mics or Room Mics for a Live Studio Panel: Which to Choose
A comparison of lavalier and boom microphone setups for live panel programmes, covering sound quality, set discipline and gallery workload, with a clear recommendation for most studios.
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Camera Control
How a Remote Camera Control Setup Is Specified, Wired and Handed Over
A behind-the-scenes account of how we configure remote camera control for a studio: what we ask first, how we test, and what the operators receive at handover.
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Lighting
The Lighting Questions Producers Ask Us Most Often
Helen Marsh answers the question we hear most when planning lighting for news sets, talk shows and live stages: how much light is enough, and where should it come from?
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Company news
Studio Design Planning: What a Layout Review Now Covers
A look at how our studio design planning service is shaped for refits and new builds, from sightlines and camera positions to cable routes, and what we ask production teams to bring along.
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Workflow
The Tools We Use to Review How Content Reaches Transmission
A look at the paper tools, timing logs and checklists behind a written production workflow review, and why we prefer plain methods to specialist software.
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Live Events
A checklist for live event technical planning before you commit
Before signing off a run sheet and equipment plan for a live broadcast event, work through these questions on venue, power, signal paths, crew and contingency so nothing is left to chance on the day.
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Sound Engineering
Six Sound Mistakes in Live and Recorded Programmes, and How to Avoid Them
The faults we meet most often in microphone placement, mixing and monitoring, why each one happens in a busy gallery, and the habits that stop them before transmission.
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Camera Control
What Remote Camera Control Costs and What Moves the Price
A plain breakdown of what drives the cost of a remote camera control setup, from head count and protocols to cabling, operator desks and the time needed to commission it.
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Lighting Cases
A news set that kept casting shadows: Marcus and his morning lighting plot
Marcus ran a regional morning programme whose presenters never looked quite right on camera. This short case follows how a revised lighting plot fixed the problem without a new rig.
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