Our work

A look at the stories and sets we have covered

Scenes from location shoots, studio recordings and edit suites, showing how a news job looks from the first frame to the final cut.

Recent work

These frames come from the kinds of jobs we take on: roadside reports, studio bulletins, live links and edit rooms. Each shows the equipment and settings our crews work in.

Roadside report at dusk
Studio bulletin recording
Handheld shooting in a crowd
Edit suite late shift
Live link from the coast
Transmission kit set up
Interview in low light
Newsroom ingest desk

How we work

What sits behind each finished news package

A package that runs cleanly on air is the result of choices made long before the edit. These notes describe how we approach shooting, cutting and handing over material for broadcast.

On location

We arrive early where we can and look at light, sound and safe positions before the first shot. Operators choose between handheld and tripod depending on how the scene is moving. The reporter and camera work together so that interviews, cutaways and pieces to camera all serve the same line of the story. Every clip is noted as it is recorded. That habit costs seconds in the field and saves minutes in the edit, which matters most when a deadline is close.

In the edit

Our editors cut against the clock but not carelessly. They listen first, because poor audio ruins good pictures, and they build the sequence around what the reporter has confirmed. Graphics and captions follow your house style where you have one. Names, places and titles are checked against the notes before anything leaves the suite. If a correction comes in after delivery, we can turn it around as a revised file.

At handover

Finished files are named clearly and delivered in the format your gallery or publishing system expects. We send a short note listing what was shot, what was used and anything the next editor should know. Original material is kept for the period agreed with you, so a follow-up item can draw on it. Where useful, we suggest small changes to ingest and filing that help your team find material faster.

Our work in numbers

2014 Founded
curtainvoxa
5 Service areas
Breaking News Crews, Studio News Production, Rapid Video Editing, Live Link-Ups, Newsroom Workflow Consulting
4 Team profiles
Rachel Hollis, Daniel Pearce, Priya Nair, Tom Fletcher