Services
The five services we offer to television newsrooms, how a commission moves from first call to delivery, and what clients say about working with us.
Five services built around the newsroom day
headluma is a Swansea production company serving television newsrooms and broadcasters. We send crews to developing stories, feed pictures back live, cut finished packages, record studio interviews and help newsrooms tidy the way footage moves through their systems.
Breaking News Crews
Camera operators and producers sent to developing stories, shooting broadcast-ready footage on location.
Live Link and Remote Feeds
Portable live units that send pictures and sound from the scene back to your gallery.
News Edit and Packaging
Fast editing of reports, bulletins and clips, finished to your house style and delivered in your format.
Studio Interviews
Lit and recorded interviews in our studio or at your premises, with a director and sound engineer.
Newsroom Workflow Support
Advice and setup for ingest, file naming and hand-over so footage moves smoothly through your newsroom.
Tell us the story, your deadline and your delivery format, and we will say plainly which of these services fits and what we would need from your desk.
ContactBreaking News Crews
This service suits editors and duty producers who need a camera operator and producer on a developing story at short notice. The crew shoots on location, logs the material and sends broadcast-ready footage back to your desk.
Contact
- Crew sent to the scene
- A camera operator and a producer travel together, so someone is always thinking about access, safety and the shots you will need while the other works the camera.
- Clean pictures, clear sound
- Footage is shot steady and framed for broadcast, with sound recorded carefully on location so that your editors are not left repairing wind noise or distant voices.
- Logged and labelled material
- Clips are named and noted as they are shot, so your edit team can find the key moments quickly and does not have to watch everything through to locate them.
- Delivery to your deadline
- We agree the format and the hand-over route before the crew leaves, then send material back in stages when a bulletin is waiting rather than holding it all until the end.
Have ready the location, a contact on the ground, your preferred file format and the time your first bulletin needs pictures.
From first call to delivered footage
Every commission follows the same short sequence, whether it is a single interview or a day on a developing story. The aim is simple: you know who is going where, what you will receive and when, and nothing is left to guesswork once the crew is moving.
The first call
You phone or write through the contact page with the story, the place and your deadline. We ask a few practical questions about access, format and who our crew should report to, and tell you honestly what is possible.
What you leave withA shared understanding of the brief, the location and the deadline.
Quotation and confirmation
We send a written quotation that sets out the crew, the equipment and what is included. Once you confirm in writing, we hold the crew for you and move on to planning the practical details of the shoot.
What you leave withA written quotation and your written confirmation.
Planning the shoot
Rhys plans the crew, the route and the delivery points. We agree file naming, the hand-over method and a named contact on your desk, so that footage arrives in a form your editors can use straight away.
What you leave withA crew plan with route, delivery points and contacts.
On location
The crew shoots, logs and checks pictures and sound as they go. Where a live link is part of the job, the engineer tests the feed with your gallery before any broadcast time.
What you leave withLogged footage and, where booked, a tested live feed.
Delivery and invoice
Edited or raw material reaches you in the agreed format and we confirm that it has arrived. An invoice follows, payable by bank transfer, in line with our payment and refund policy.
What you leave withDelivered material, a delivery confirmation and an invoice.
What newsroom clients say
The crew arrived knowing what we needed and sent the first clips back while the story was still moving. Our editors found the files named and logged, which saved us a good deal of time at the desk.
Helen BishopDuty editor at a regional newsroomThe live link was tested with our gallery before we went to air, and it held for the whole bulletin. The engineer was calm and told us clearly what was happening throughout.
Owen MatthiasGallery producer, regional televisionPackages came back cut to our house style and in the right format first time. That is a small thing until you have a bulletin waiting and no time to correct anything.
Priya NandakumarSenior producer at a broadcasterThey helped us sort out how footage was named and handed over between teams. Nothing dramatic, but material now finds the right desk without people ringing round to ask where it is.
Gareth LloydNewsroom operations manager