Short articles from our Swansea crews and edit suite on breaking-story camerawork, newsroom workflow, live positions and delivering television news footage on time.
We publish about one article a day on how news video is shot, cut and delivered. The pieces below come from the people who do the work, and the newest appear first.
Interview Filming
A practical walk-through of how we prepare, light and record a news interview so the audio is clean, the framing holds steady and your editor has usable material straight away.
Edit Packages
A practical list of questions to settle with your edit team before a finished news package is cut, from running order and graphics to captions, voice-over and delivery.
Delivery
Rushes that arrive late, unnamed or in the wrong format slow down a bulletin. Rhian Pugh sets out the footage delivery and archive mistakes she sees most often, and the habits that prevent them.
Pricing
A plain breakdown of how we price live position support, from crew size and kit to travel and hours on site, so a newsroom can budget before it commits.
Case Story
A short account from Owen Davies of one customer case: a newsroom producer named Gareth needed footage of a flooded road before the evening bulletin, and what the crew did to deliver it.
Studio Advice
Shorter days change how we light and record interviews. Owen Davies explains what to plan for studio and on-premises filming through the coming autumn and winter weeks.
Edit Terms
A plain-words guide to the terms an edit package lives by, from the running order to the hard out, and why each one shapes how we cut your finished news item.
Footage Delivery
Two ways to move footage from our crew to your newsroom, compared by speed, control and cost of mistakes, with a clear recommendation from a camera operator who sends rushes every week.
Behind the Scenes
A behind-the-scenes look at how our crews prepare a fixed live position, from the first site check to the last sound test, and why most of the work is done before anyone goes on air.
Breaking News
The question newsroom desks ask us most often: how fast can a crew be on location? Callum Reid explains what shapes the answer, from the first call to the first usable pictures.
Company news
A look at the practical updates to how we light, mic and frame sit-down interviews for newsrooms, in our studio and at your premises, as the darker months arrive.
Edit Suite
A look at the editing software, graphics templates and audio tools our edit suite relies on to turn raw rushes into packages that drop straight into a newsroom running order.
How-to guide
A step-by-step walk through preparing, naming, sending and confirming rushes and finished items so your newsroom receives them intact, and how to keep them organised afterwards.
Live reports
A practical list of questions to settle before commissioning camera, lighting and sound for a live report from a fixed position, written by the technician who sets it up.
Field Practice
Owen Davies, our senior camera operator, goes through the errors he sees most often when a crew is sent to a developing story, and the habits that stop them costing you usable footage.
Prices
A plain account of how a filmed interview is priced, from room and crew time to lighting, audio and delivery, and which choices make the bill larger or smaller.
Customer story
A short story from these autumn weeks: how a producer called Gareth, a half-written running order and a stack of rushes turned into a finished news package before the evening bulletin.
Footage Delivery
Priya Sharma sets out how newsrooms can prepare their footage transfer and storage habits during these autumn weeks, before the busiest months of weather, flooding and festive-season stories begin.
Trade Terms
Live positions run on a handful of short words that mean exact things. Priya Sharma explains talkback, cue, standby and the countdown, and why each one matters to a crew on location.
News video production from Swansea: crews, edit packages, live support and studio interviews for television newsrooms across South Wales, since 2012.