Practical writing on camera craft, reporting to the lens and live coverage from our tutors.
Our articles cover the everyday detail of television reporting: how to hold a shot, how to speak to a lens and how to stay calm when a live crossing changes. New pieces appear about once a day.
Location Craft
A practical walk-through of how to capture clear audio and set a basic, flattering light for interviews and standups when you arrive at an unfamiliar location with limited kit.
Read moreLive Coverage
Before choosing live coverage training, run through these questions on cueing, reporter and operator teamwork, kit, and handling the unexpected, so you pick the right course for the right people.
Read moreInterview Technique
Most interviews that fail in the edit were weakened earlier, in the setup, the questions or the listening. Here are the common slips from our location sessions and how to avoid each one.
Read moreCosts
A plain look at how Field Camera Operation training is priced, which choices raise or lower the bill, and what to settle before you send an enquiry.
Read moreCase Story
A short account of one reporter who joined our on-camera coaching, what held her delivery back, and the small changes in voice, posture and script that made her pieces to camera sound like her.
Read moreTeam Training
Helen Marsden explains how newsroom teams and student cohorts can use the coming months for a classroom workshop day in Shrewsbury, and what to settle before the date is set.
Read moreLocation Sound
A plain-words explanation of room tone, the thirty seconds of silence recorded at every location, and how it saves an interview edit when the sound changes between answers.
Read moreLive Coverage
Helen Marsden compares two ways of going live, from the studio desk and from a real street, and says which one a reporter and operator should rehearse first and why.
Read moreInterview Technique
A look at how a classroom interview exercise is set up, shot and checked at elupho, from the first question to the clean edit points a producer will thank you for.
Read moreCamera Technique
The question we hear most on Field Camera Operation courses: why handheld shots wobble. David Pritchard answers it with stance, breathing, framing and a few habits you can practise this week.
Read moreCompany news
Our on-camera reporting sessions now start with breath, stance and pace before any writing begins. Priya Nair explains why the order changed and what reporters notice in the first hour.
Read moreWorkshops
A look at the kit, room layout and running order we rely on for classroom workshop days in Shrewsbury, and why each choice helps newsroom teams and student cohorts learn faster.
Read moreLocation Sound
Priya Nair walks through the questions worth answering about microphones, rooms and simple lighting before you commit to a location interview or a standup, so the shoot goes cleanly.
Read moreLive Coverage
Most live problems between a reporter and a camera operator come from small habits, not big failures. Here are six common mistakes we see in training and how to avoid each one.
Read moreInterview Technique
A plain breakdown of what you pay for interview technique training in Shrewsbury, what the fee covers, and the handful of choices that make a course cost more or less.
Read moreCase story
A short account of Callum, a trainee reporter who came to us with wobbly handheld footage and left with steadier, cleaner frames for his regional news shoots.
Read moreOn-Camera Tips
Practical advice for reporters on delivery, voice, posture and script writing as the light fades, the weather turns and outdoor standups get harder over the coming months.
Read moreTrade Terms
A plain-words guide to the terms that come up when a newsroom team books a classroom day in Shrewsbury: cohort, run-through, kit check and sign-off, and what each one asks of you.
Read moreAudio Craft
A plain comparison of a clip-on lavalier and a boom microphone for interviews and standups, with a clear recommendation for reporters and operators working in autumn weather.
Read moreLive Coverage
A look at how a live coverage session is built and run in our Shrewsbury classroom and on location, from the first cue card to the moment something goes wrong on air.
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