Useful Links

Contacts

• Production Companies in the UK (via KFTV)

Freelance

• A Guide To Using A Drone In London | Londonist
• A to Z of Indies
• Brits In The Box | Production Services | New York | Los Angeles
• Broadcast Intelligence
• BroadcastJobs – CV advice
• BroadcastJobs – Money & Legal
• Courses | Creative Skillset
• Creative Skillset
• CTBF | The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund – Home
• Early Bird – BECTU
• Fixed term employment contracts GOV.UK
• Format Bible Template Generator
• Freelancers’ Fair – BECTU
• GDPR Guide
• GDPR (Information Commissioners Office)
• Getting Into TV (BBC)
• Grades accepted as self-employed in the film, video and television industry
• Greenlights – Broadcast
• Greenlit | TVMole
• Handbooks | RTS Futures
• HMRC Film and Television Guidance Notes 2012
• Holiday Pay Calculator
• How to survive as a Freelancer | RTS Futures
• Ideas Room TV
• Invoice Template
• Media and Cultural Work
• Metropolitan Police – Filming On The Move Guidelines (pdf)
• Online Portfolio
• Production Budgets – Digital Production Partnership
• Production guides | eyefish.tv
• Raising Films | Making Babies, Making Films, Making Change
• Sign in to your personal tax account – GOV.UK
• Tax Guide for Freelancers – BECTU
• The Joint Industry Grading Scheme
• TV training courses London
  
  

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  Professional Groups and Associations

• Assistant Directors Association
• BECTU
• British Stunt Register
• DGGB: Directors Guild of Great Britain
• Digital Production Partnership
• Directors UK
• Production Managers Association
• The Casting Directors Guild of Great Britain
• The Guild of Television Cameramen : Home
• UK Choreographers Directory
• Vision Mixers Guild
  

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  Broadcasters

• 4Producers
• BBC – TV – Production – Commissioning
• BBC Editorial Guidelines
• BBC Opening/Closing Credits (pdf)
• BBC Technical Standards
• Channel 5 Production Process
• Channel4 – Fair Dealing Guidelines
• Discovery
• ITV Producer’s Guidelines | Commissioning
• Sky One Producer Guidelines
• Sky Production Pack
  

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  Facilities & Services

• access bookings hotel accommodation film tv booking specialists
• ActionTrax camera vehicles
• Adobe Story | Scriptwriting software
• Advance Production News
• Andy Dixon Facilities Production trucks and equipment
• Applausestore.com Free Television & Radio Audience Tickets
• Arqiva
• Artistes and agents (subscription)
• ATA Carnets
• Aviation Filming – Aircraft props
• Bickers Action | Camera Tracking Equipment, Vehicles
• Book A Drone
• Buzzgold Quiz Systems and buzzers
• Cerberus Satellite Broadband Services
• Chadchud Timelapse
• Chaperones & Tutors
• Chaperones and Tutors
• Child performance licence (England, Scotland and Wales) – GOV.UK
• Cinephonics Props Rental Home
• Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)
• Digital Production Partnership Budget and Cost Manager Templates
• Drone Aerial Photography & Film
• Dronesafe
• Drones – CAA
• Fake Telephone Numbers for drama use
• Film / Stage / TV Resources, The Media Directory
• Film London Child Performance Licences
• Film London Permissions and Locations
• Filming in Russia – The best local Fixers, Cameramen, Producers
• Flight Logistics Tyler camera systems main agent
• Footage and Picture Archive Research
• Freefly Systems Movi, Alta
• Heathrow Filming permits
• Heathrow Video Library
• Holiday Pay Calculator
• The Helicopter Girls
• Industry | TV Business and Commercial Affairs
• International Roaming Sims Compared
• Kays up to date info on the world of TV
• KFTV (formerly Kemps)
• Lighting Hire Specialists Ancient Lights Limited
• List of Public Domain Music and Songs
• Locamats Floor protection mats for locations
• Location Broadband Services
• Location Collective (database includes rehearsal spaces)
• Luxury touring sleeper coaches
• Media Showcase your media to the world
• MediaMotos | Motorcycle Tracking Vehicles
• On The QT – Location Services
• Oracle Forecast
• Oracle Forecast Ltd | Film and TV production Forecast Company
• Overnights.tv
• Place Invaders
• PMD Magnetics – tape stock
• PPL Standing up for music rights
• Prestige Car Hire – Enterprise Exotics Cars UK
• Production Copiers | Copier, Fax and Shredder Hire
• Professional Quiz Buzzers for Corporate & TV Quizzes – Quiz Systems
• Ricall music licencing
• RIMMS, CloudBased Suite of Television and Film Production Tools
• Royalty Free Stock Video, Music, Photos, Illustrations, Sound Effects
• Shooting on Location
• Shot Log!
• Shot Stop – Delicious drinks from a dinky van!
• Skyroam Hotspot | WiFi Wherever You Travel
• Spirit In The Sky – Aviation & Aircraft props
• Spotlight artists and agents
• Studio Edgware
• Supply2Location | Hire | Lighting | Unit Bases | Television | Film Industry
• Take the Interview
• Talk to a forecaster Met Office
• The Knowledge Online: The definitive UK source of TV contacts
• The Location Guide
• The Silent Transport Company electric milk floats
• The Stage Archive
• thinkbox the marketing body for UK commercial TV
• TinEye Reverse Image Search
• Trint – Transcription Software
• TLO FILM SERVICES (Vehicles)
• Total VSAT Solutions UK
• Transport services – Man & Van – Showforce
• TV BAY buy and sell professional TV equipment
• TVrecordings.com
• UK Chaperone Service
• UK Copyright Service – UK and International Copyright Registration Centre
• Unitbase Location Agency London
• Wimbledon studios Standing sets to hire
• Wings Museum – Aviation & Aircraft props
• World Fixer | The first global database of fixers
• Worldwide Location Fixers and Production Services Companies
  

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  Studios

• 01zero-one Studio & space hire
• 3 Mills Studios, London
• BBC Scotland Studios
• Black Hangar Studios
• broadley
• Camberwell Studios
• Cardington Studios, Bedfordshire
• Celebro Studio Hire London
• Centrestage Studios
• Chromacode Studios London
• Cinergy Studio SE1
• dock10 studios MediaCityUK
• East London Studios
• Elstree Film Studios Homepage
• Elstree Studios BBC Studios and Post Production
• Excel Studios London Docklands
• Farm studio, Bristol
• Financial Times City View TV Studio
• Fleetwood Studios Berkshire
• Forest Studios
• Green Screen studios in Soho, London.
• Hampshire Street Studio
• Holborn Studios, London
• Kentish Town Studios
• LH2 Studios, London
• Loft Studios, Kensal Green, London
• London Studios
• London TV Studio Hire with Live Webcast Studio & London Backdrop of Tower Bridge | Trickbox TV | Tower Bridge TV Studios
• Medical Film Studios | The Hospital Location
• Mount Pleasant Studio, London
• Oval Space, London
• Park Royal Studios, London
• Pinewood Film and TV studios
• Plough Studios, London
• RADA: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art – Theatres & The Screen @ RADA
• SHOOT FACTORY, Willesdon Junction
• SL Vision London
• Studio Hire London, London
• Studio Islington
• Studio Rental and Hire
• Sunbeam Studios – Home
• The Camden Studio
• The London Studios
• The Maidstone Television Studios
• The Space Project, Manchester
• The Studio Map
• The Underwater Studio
• UK Studios Map, The Callsheet
• Warner Bros Studios Leavesden
• Waterloo Studios, London
• West London Film Studios
• Whitechapel Studios
• Wimbledon Studios

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  Rehearsal Rooms

• 12 Bloomsbury Square | CIArb Roomhire
• 20 Cavendish Square, London
• Audition and Rehearsal Spaces for Hire
• Choose Your Venue (database)
• Conway Hall, London
• Dragon Hall London
• Hackney Showroom
• Halls for Hire (database)
• Halls for Hire Camden Council, London
• Indian YMCA, London
• Jerwood Space, London
• Location Collective (database includes rehearsal spaces)
• Mary Ward House, London
• Platform, Islington, London
• RADA Venue Hire, London
• Redbridge Drama Centre
• Regent Hall, Oxford Street, London
• Rehearsal Spaces :: Jacksons Lane
• Rehearsal Studios London
• Room Hire | London Welsh Centre
• St Anne’s Church Soho, London
• Swiss Church
• The Factory, London
• The Joint, London
• The London Irish Centre
• Theatre Deli
• The Old Truman Brewery
• The Tab Centre, Shoreditch
• THE WORX – London
• Whitechapel Studios

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  Other Interesting Links

• Aframe Video Collaboration
• Airport WiFi Passwords
• Asylum London
• BBC Comedies, British Comedy Guide
• BBC Genome
• BBC VT
• Bother’s Bar
• Brandplacer | Product placement for everyone
• British 1950s TV and Radio
• Choose Your Venue
• CV Advice for Runners
• Derelict Places
• Facebook – clearing for TV
• Fair Dealing Guidelines- Producers Handbook
• Findatvexpert.com | find an expert for TV
• Foreign Versions | Translation and Voice Overs
• GaffGun
• Health and Safety Myth of the month
• HMRC Guidance | Special NIC Rules for Entertainers
• HTW Historical Television Website
• Instagram – clearing for TV
• Kaleidoscope The Classic Television Organisation
• Lantern: Media History Digital Library
• Laser Magic Holograms 3D Holographic Projection
• Media Accountants | TV Accountants
• My House Your Shoot
• SatSleeve for iPhone
• Screening Room Map
• Tech Ops Nostalgia Home Page
• Teletronic – the television history site
• Television Heaven
• TellyPRO Director
• Ten weird country laws filmmakers should be aware of | KFTV News
• The FaTCaT Directory of UK Film and Television Production
• The worst TV I’ve ever made and everything it taught me – audio | Media | theguardian.com
• TVARK | The online television museum
• TVCatchup
• TV History Related Sites
• UK TV Adverts
• Zamzar free online file conversion
• Zero G Corporation

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