Short articles on shooting breaking stories, cutting for bulletins and keeping newsroom workflows moving, written by the people who do the work.
Articles appear about once a day and cover field technique, editing habits and newsroom process. Each one is written from work we do, in plain language for producers and editors.
How-to guide
A practical walk through how a developing story becomes a broadcast-ready package: what we shoot first, how we log as we go, and what a newsroom should have in hand at handover.
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Training
Callum Reid sets out the questions worth answering before a newsroom commits to field camera training, from crew mix and kit to what each session should leave behind.
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Post-Production
Fast edits fail in predictable ways: late captions, loose audio, graphics that arrive after the cut. Here is what we see go wrong in daily bulletins and the habits that stop it.
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Consulting costs
A plain look at how we price a review of your pitch-to-air pipeline: what the fee covers, what widens the work, and how to judge the cost against the time it can save.
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Case story
Tom Fairweather tells how a regional newsroom and a producer called Mairead approached a two-day coastal music event, from the first call to the last cut that reached air.
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Seasonal advice
Shorter days, wet pavements and early dusk change how a developing story is filmed and delivered. Helen Marsden sets out what we adjust for autumn packages.
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Camera Craft
A plain-words guide to three terms crews use on fast-moving stories: the whip pan, the safety shot and the cutaway, and why we teach them in short field sessions.
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Editing
Priya Nair compares keeping bulletin editing in-house with sending it to an outside edit team, and says which option she would pick for a busy regional newsroom.
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Workflow
Helen Marsden walks through how a workflow review actually runs: the days spent watching desks, the maps we draw, and the small changes that give producers back minutes on every package.
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Live Coverage
The questions we hear most from editors before commissioning coverage of a concert, festival or public event: crew size, feeds, turnaround and what to settle before the day.
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Company news
A look at how newflare handles breaking news video packages in these autumn weeks: what the crew does at the scene, how the edit is prepared, and how a finished piece reaches a newsroom.
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Training notes
A look at the tools, materials and methods behind our short field camera sessions for reporters and crews, from support gear to the shot-list cards we hand out.
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Editing Guide
A practical walk through the edit routine we use for same-day bulletins: how to prepare media, cut, caption and add graphics so a package reaches transmission on time and clean.
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Workflow
Questions worth answering inside your own newsroom before you ask anyone to review how stories travel from pitch to air, so the review starts from facts rather than impressions.
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Live Coverage
Multi-camera event coverage fails in predictable ways. Helen Marsden walks through the mistakes she sees most often on concerts and public events, and the habits that prevent them.
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Pricing
A plain account from the edit suite of how a breaking news package is priced, which parts of a job raise or lower the figure, and what to tell us when you ask for a quote.
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Case story
A short account of Dan, a regional reporter who spent a day with Tom learning to shoot moving events, and the handful of habits he took back to his newsroom.
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Editing
As the clocks change and the evenings close in, Helen Marsden sets out how a news edit suite can prepare for the coming months of early darkness, weather stories and heavier schedules.
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