Notes from the studio floor on equipment, cameras, sound, lighting and running live programmes reliably.
Integration
A step-by-step walk through specifying, labelling and commissioning vision mixer, router, monitoring and intercom so a small live studio behaves as one dependable system.
James Whitfield
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Lighting Design
Questions to settle about your room, your talent and your cameras before any fixture is ordered or hung, so a lighting plan for news and interview sets holds up on air.
Helen Carter
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Camera Technique
Six camera setup mistakes we see on news desks, interview sets and multi-camera shows, and the practical habits that stop them from reaching air.
Tom Ellison
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Acoustics
A plain account of how acoustic work for a live television studio is priced, which room and equipment factors raise or lower the cost, and what to ask before agreeing a scope.
Helen Carter
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Customer story
Dan produces a weekly live news programme from a small studio. This is how a single run-sheet and a shared rehearsal routine took the panic out of his transmission days.
James Whitfield
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Seasonal advice
Seasonal advice on vision mixers, routers, monitoring and intercom: what to check, label and rehearse before the busy autumn and winter schedule puts your studio under steady load.
Helen Carter
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Lighting terms
A plain-words guide to key, fill and backlight, the three-point terms used on every lighting plot, and how each one shapes what a presenter looks like on air.
Priya Sharma
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Camera Setup
A comparison of locked-off robotic heads and manned pedestal cameras for a two-presenter news desk, with the setup we recommend for most regional studios.
James Whitfield
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Acoustics
A walk through a typical measurement visit: what we bring, what we listen for, and how the readings turn into a treatment and microphone plan a crew can live with.
Tom Ellison
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Workflow
The question we hear most is how detailed a run-sheet should be. Here is how we build one that survives rehearsal, a late guest and a dropped link on transmission day.
James Whitfield
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Company news
A plain account of how trendreel specifies, wires and commissions vision mixers, routers, monitoring and intercom, so a live studio behaves as one system from the first rehearsal.
Priya Sharma
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Lighting Design
A look at the tools and working methods we rely on when lighting news desks, interview sets and live shows, from the first site walk to the final check before rehearsal.
Helen Carter
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How-to guide
A step-by-step guide to placing cameras, choosing lenses and briefing operators for a seated interview, so the first rehearsal is spent on content and not on fixing the shots.
Helen Carter
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Acoustics
A practical list of questions to settle about your room, your microphones and your budget before you hire anyone to measure or treat a live television studio.
Tom Ellison
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Workflow
Most live-show wobbles trace back to the paperwork and rehearsal habits behind them. Here are the workflow mistakes we see most often, and the plain changes that keep a programme steady.
Helen Carter
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Costs
A plain account of how we price vision mixer, router, monitoring and intercom integration, which parts of a job add cost, and how a quotation is built before any work begins.
Helen Carter
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