Short, practical articles on broadcast studio design, camera control, lighting, audio and live event workflow, published about once a day.
Our articles explain one idea at a time, from cable routing to vision mixing habits. They are written for working engineers, producers and studio managers, and a new one appears about every day.
Training
A step-by-step guide to setting up a half-day training session on gallery operation and vision mixing, from choosing what to cover to leaving the crew with something they can use.
Continue readingWorkflow Planning
Before a schedule, signal flow diagram or crew plan is signed off, these are the questions a live broadcast producer should be able to answer. A practical list, written from the planning desk.
Continue readingLighting Design
Lighting plots go wrong in familiar ways: flat key light, uneven colour, rigs built before camera tests. Tom Fletcher walks through the common mistakes and the checks that prevent them.
Continue readingCamera Control
A plain look at what drives the cost of camera control units, remote heads and shading setups for multi-camera productions, and what to settle before asking for a quotation.
Continue readingCase story
Tom Fletcher recounts how Marcus, a producer of a regional live panel recording, sorted out clipping, spill and a muddled mix by reworking the audio chain before the cameras rolled.
Continue readingStudio Design
Autumn is the quiet window for settling studio floor plans, cable routes and control room positions before winter programming fills the diary. Here is how to use it well.
Continue readingTraining
A plain-words look at how a half-day differs from a full-day technical session, what each covers in the gallery, and how to choose the length that suits your crew.
Continue readingLive Events
Should a live event begin with the schedule or with the signal flow diagram? We compare both starting points for live event workflow planning and say which one we recommend, and why.
Continue readingLighting Design
A look at how bulletico builds a lighting plot for a studio set, from the first site visit and camera positions to the plan the rigging crew works from.
Continue readingCamera Control
The question we hear most from studio managers: how much camera control is enough for three to five cameras? A plain answer on control units, remote heads and shading, with the trade-offs.
Continue readingCompany News
A look at how our sound engineering support begins: mapping the audio chain, placing microphones with the room in mind and agreeing a mixing workflow before crews arrive.
Continue readingStudio Design
A look at the drawings, models and checks we rely on when planning a studio layout, from the first floor plan to cable routes and control room positions.
Continue readingTraining
Questions to settle before commissioning a half-day or full-day session on gallery operation, vision mixing and camera work, so the time in the room is spent on the right things.
Continue readingWorkflow
Most trouble on a live broadcast starts weeks earlier, in the schedule and the signal diagram. Tom Fletcher goes through the planning mistakes he meets most often and how crews can sidestep them.
Continue readingLighting Design
A plain account of how lighting plots and rig plans are priced for studio sets and live stages, and which choices make a job smaller or larger.
Continue readingCustomer Case
Tom Fletcher follows Marcus, a studio manager whose multi-camera set produced shots that never quite matched, and how a revised shading routine settled the pictures.
Continue readingSound Advice
Practical advice on preparing audio chains, microphone placement and mixing workflows for the busy months of autumn and winter, when venues are colder, damper and fuller.
Continue readingPlain-spoken guidance on studio design, camera control, lighting, sound and workflow for television networks and live events. Based in Colchester, working across the UK.
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