Short, practical articles on field camera work, on-camera delivery, sound and live coverage from our working tutors.
Our tutors write about the problems reporters and camera operators meet on real shoots. A new article appears about once a day, each one short enough to read before a job and keep in mind on location.
Team training
A practical guide to agreeing how your team frames, exposes and reports in the field, so that stories shot by different people cut together and look like one newsroom.
Daniel Whitcombe
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Audio
Daniel Whitcombe lists what to check in your own sound and interview work before choosing training, so the time you spend learning goes to the problems that actually cost you usable material.
Daniel Whitcombe
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Camera Craft
Most weak news footage traces back to a handful of habits formed early on. Here are five common camera mistakes, why they happen, and the simple corrections we teach on the course.
Daniel Whitcombe
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Prices
A plain account of how one-to-one coaching for reporters is priced, what each session includes, and which choices make a programme cost more or less.
Daniel Whitcombe
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Case story
Meet Callum, a freelance reporter who joined our online live coverage workshop after a shaky first broadcast, and see what he changed in how he plans and ad-libs.
Daniel Whitcombe
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Team Training
Short days and bad weather test a newsroom's field habits. Daniel Whitcombe explains how to agree common standards for shooting and reporting across your team in the coming months.
Daniel Whitcombe
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Audio
Daniel Whitcombe explains room tone, wild track and the cutaway in plain words, and why recording each one before you leave a location saves a great deal of trouble in the edit.
Daniel Whitcombe
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Camera Skills
A practical comparison of handheld and tripod shooting for news and location work, with a clear recommendation on how to choose between them and when to switch.
Daniel Whitcombe
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Behind the scenes
A look at how one-to-one on-camera coaching actually runs, from the first recorded take to the notes you keep, and what Helen looks for when she watches a reporter speak to the lens.
Helen Marsden
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Live coverage
The question we hear most about our live workshops: what if something breaks on air? Priya Nair explains how the sessions prepare reporters for dropped feeds, silent earpieces and gaps.
Priya Nair
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Company News
A note from our course coordinator on how Newsroom Team Training sessions are arranged, what teams bring to them and how shared field standards take shape during autumn.
Priya Nair
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Audio Kit
Helen Marsden explains the microphones, monitoring habits and set-up routines that our audio and interview students practise until clean sound becomes automatic on any location.
Helen Marsden
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Camera Craft
How to hold, move and breathe with a camera on your shoulder so handheld news footage stays usable. Daniel Whitcombe walks through stance, movement and drills you can practise before your next shoot.
Daniel Whitcombe
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Coaching
Priya Nair sets out the questions worth answering before you commit to one-to-one reporting coaching: goals, footage, schedule, feedback format and what you will practise afterwards.
Priya Nair
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Live reporting
Helen Marsden goes through the errors that trip up reporters on live broadcasts, from over-scripting to freezing when the feed drops, and what to practise instead.
Helen Marsden
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Prices
A plain look at how training for a whole newsroom is priced, which choices raise or lower the quote, and what to have ready before you write to us.
Priya Nair
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Online field camera and on-camera reporting training for journalists and camera operators, run from Colchester since 2014.
