Practical write-ups on studio design, camera control, lighting, sound and live production workflow.
We publish about one guide a day, written for production teams who want tidy, dependable workflows. Each one deals with a single practical problem, from cable labelling to monitoring set-ups.
Live Production
A step-by-step guide to drafting the technical run sheet, signal flow diagram and crew plan for a live broadcast, so every cue and every cable has an owner before doors open.
Owen Davies
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Lighting Design
Before a lighting grid is specified or a fixture ordered, a handful of questions settle most of the outcome. This checklist covers the room, the cameras, the control and the crew.
Owen Davies
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Studio Design
Most problems in a new or refurbished television studio were drawn in at the floor plan stage. These are the common layout, sightline and acoustic zoning errors, and how to avoid each.
Megan Lloyd
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Camera Control
A plain look at how camera control planning is priced, from shading and remote heads to control room layout, and which decisions make a quotation larger or smaller.
Megan Lloyd
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Customer Case
A short case from a regional television studio, told through Ellis, a floor manager who wanted every crew to run the same show the same way, and how written procedures and hands-on sessions helped.
Rhys Pritchard
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Audio workflow
Mid autumn is the right moment to review microphone plans, desk routing and monitoring before the busy months arrive. Here is how we approach that check-up.
Rhys Pritchard
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Live Production
A plain-words guide to the terms on a technical run sheet: standby, go, cue and hold. Where they come from and why crews need them used the same way every time.
Rhys Pritchard
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Lighting Design
Lighting Design part two: we weigh a conventional tungsten-halogen rig against a full LED one for a working studio, covering heat, colour, control and upkeep, and end with a clear recommendation.
Megan Lloyd
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Studio Design
A look at how we work on a studio design: the first walk-through, measuring sightlines, zoning the room for sound and the drawings a technical manager receives at the end.
Rhys Pritchard
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Camera Control
The question we hear most often: how should a control room be arranged so shaders, vision mixer and director each see what they need? Notes from planning multi-camera rooms.
Owen Davies
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Company news
Owen Davies explains how entrelux turns a crew's habits into written procedures and short hands-on sessions, so a show runs the same way from one recording day to the next.
Owen Davies
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Audio Methods
A look at the paper, templates and test routines we rely on when planning microphone layouts, desk routing and monitoring, and why plain methods keep a live show steady.
Megan Lloyd
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Live events
Carys Hughes lists the questions worth settling before a live event production plan is agreed, from run sheets and signal flow to crew cover and rehearsal time.
Carys Hughes
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Lighting Design
Six recurring faults in studio and live lighting plans, from grid layout to control programming, with the checks that catch each one before the rig goes up.
Carys Hughes
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Costs
A plain account of how studio design consultancy is priced, which parts of a brief add time, and what a quotation should list before work begins.
Owen Davies
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Customer Case
A short account of one customer, Idris, and the camera control room we planned with him: shading positions, remote heads and a desk layout his crew could run without shouting across the room.
Rhys Pritchard
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Seasonal Advice
Mid autumn is the quiet window to review written procedures and book short hands-on sessions, so crews start the busy winter schedule working the same way from show to show.
Megan Lloyd
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