Notes on studios, lighting, sound and live workflows
Practical articles from the celebyzo team on broadcast studio design, camera control, lighting, audio and planning live events, published about once a day.
Our articles cover the practical side of audiovisual production, from studio layouts to festival signal routing. Each one is written by someone who does the work and aims to be useful on your next project.
· Priya NairHow to Brief a Production Consultant Before Your Studio Build
A practical guide to preparing for a written consultancy review: what to gather, what to ask, and how to read the report so it helps your new audiovisual set-up.
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· Priya NairA Sound Engineering Checklist to Work Through Before You Commit
Priya Nair sets out the questions a producer or organiser should answer about audio capture, mixing and monitoring before settling on a plan for a broadcast or live event.
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· Daniel WhitfieldLive Event Workflow Planning: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Most live production problems start long before doors open. Daniel Whitfield walks through the planning mistakes he meets most often on festivals and broadcasts, and the habits that prevent them.
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· Daniel WhitfieldWhat Broadcast Studio Design Costs and What Moves the Price
A plain look at how studio design is priced, which choices raise or lower the fee, and what to settle with a designer before the first floor plan is drawn.
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· Priya NairA small touring stage and the cameras that nearly washed it out
Priya Nair recounts how a lighting plot for a regional music series was reworked around the cameras after a first rehearsal looked flat on screen, and what the crew changed.
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· Oliver HartleyGetting Camera Control Systems Ready for the Darker Months
As studio and festival schedules tighten through mid autumn, a short routine for remote camera heads, vision mixing and camera control units keeps multi-camera shoots steady.
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· Daniel WhitfieldWhat a Scope of Works Means in a Production Consultancy Review
A plain-words explanation of the scope of works, the document that decides what a written equipment review covers, what it leaves out, and how you can use it afterwards.
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· Priya NairFront of House or Broadcast Mix: Choosing Where Your Sound Is Built
A comparison of two ways to handle audio at a live event, one mix serving the room and one built for the broadcast feed, with a clear recommendation for organisers.
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· Daniel WhitfieldHow a Festival Production Schedule Is Built, Cue by Cue
A look behind the scenes at how we turn a site plan and a running order into a production schedule, a signal routing map and a crew plan that hold up on the day.
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· Hannah GriffithsWhat Do You Need From Us Before a Studio Layout Can Start?
The question we hear most often about studio design is what to bring to a first conversation. Here is how the floor plan, set and gallery stages build on what you already know.
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· Daniel WhitfieldLighting Plots Built Around the Cameras We Are Asked to Serve
A short account of how celebyzo now approaches lighting design for studios, concert stages and festival sites, starting from the cameras in use rather than from the look of the set alone.
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· Hannah GriffithsThe Kit Behind a Steady Multi-Camera Picture: Heads, Mixers and CCUs
A look at the remote heads, camera control units and vision mixing panels we rely on when setting up multi-camera shoots, and why we choose them for repeatable results.
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· Oliver HartleyBefore You Commission Production Consultancy: A Checklist for Producers
A practical list of questions to settle before you ask for written guidance or an equipment review, so the report you receive answers the decision you actually face.
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· Oliver HartleyCommon Sound Engineering Mistakes at Live Events and How to Avoid Them
Most audio problems at broadcasts and live events begin long before the first soundcheck. Here are the mistakes we see most often in capture, monitoring and feeds, and the habits that prevent them.
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· Hannah GriffithsWhat Live Event Workflow Planning Costs and What Moves the Price
A plain account of how planning fees for festivals and live broadcasts are built up, which parts of an event push the work higher, and what you can do to keep it proportionate.
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· Daniel WhitfieldA Regional News Studio Rebuilt Around Its Gallery: Maya's Story
Daniel Whitfield follows one studio refit from the first floor-plan sketch to the equipment list, as told by Maya, a producer who needed a small news set to work harder.
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· Daniel WhitfieldLighting Plots for the Darker Months: Preparing Studios and Stages
Practical seasonal advice on lighting design as the evenings draw in: how shorter days, cold venues and indoor events change what a lighting plot needs to do for the cameras.
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