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Contacts
- A Guide To Using A Drone In London | Londonist
- How to improve your drone filming
- Brits In The Box | Production Services | New York | Los Angeles
- Broadcast Intelligence
- Budget Templates (DPP)
- Camera training
- Courses | Creative Skillset
- Creative Skillset
- Early Bird – BECTU
- Film & TV Charity
- Fixed term employment contracts GOV.UK
- Format Bible Template Generator
- Freelancers’ Fair – BECTU
- GDPR Guide
- GDPR (Information Commissioners Office)
- Getting Into TV (BBC)
- Greenlights – Broadcast
- Handbooks | RTS Futures
- HMRC Film and Television Guidance Notes 2012 – now superceded by…
- HMRC Grades accepted as self-employed in the film, video and television industry – updated December 2019
- Holiday Pay Calculator
- How to survive as a Freelancer | RTS Futures
- Ideas Room TV
- Invoice Template
- IR35 – information about tax changes April 2020
- IR35 – BECTU Advice
- Media and Cultural Work
- 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
- Timecode Calculator
- The Joint Industry Grading Scheme
- TV training courses London
Professional Groups and Associations
- Assistant Directors Association
- BECTU
- British Stunt Register
- DGGB: Directors Guild of Great Britain
- Digital Production Partnership
- Directors UK
- OFCOM Broadcasting Code
- Production Managers Association
- The Casting Directors Guild of Great Britain
- The Guild of Television Cameramen : Home
- UK Choreographers Directory
- Vision Mixers Guild
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
- Channel4 – Producer’s Handbook
- Channel4 – Tech Specs
- Discovery
- ITV Producer’s Guidelines | Commissioning
- Sky One Producer Guidelines
- Sky Production Pack
Facilities & Services
- 8mm 2 digital (film transfer)
- access bookings hotel accommodation film tv booking specialists
- ActionTrax camera vehicles
- Adobe Story | Scriptwriting software
- Advance Production News
- 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
- Chaperone Agency
- 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
- Driving Wizards
- Drone Aerial Photography & Film
- Dronesafe
- Dronesafe Register – List of UK Aerial Filming Companies
- 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
- Immigration services for entertainment
- 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
- Services to Film – Military advice and services
- Media Showcase your media to the world
- MediaMotos | Motorcycle Tracking Vehicles
- Mental Health training for the media industry
- Metropolitan Police – Filming Guidelines
- Metropolitan Police – Notify about Filming
- On The QT – Location Services
- 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
- RIMMS, CloudBased Suite of Television and Film Production Tools
- Royalty Free Stock Video, Music, Photos, Illustrations, Sound Effects
- Shootcase
- Shooting on Location
- Shot Log!
- Shot Stop – Delicious drinks from a dinky van!
- Show Digs – Local accommodation
- Skyroam Hotspot | WiFi Wherever You Travel
- Smart Blogger Freelance writing work
- Sound Effects Library (BBC)
- Spirit In The Sky – Aerial Filming and Props
- Spotlight artists and agents
- Studio Edgware
- Supply2Location | Hire | Lighting | Unit Bases | Television | Film Industry
- Tag Venue – 5000 UK Venues
- Take the Interview
- Talk to a forecaster Met Office
- The Knowledge Online: The definitive UK source of TV contacts
- The Location Guide
- The Stage Archive
- Theatres around London
- 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
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
- 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
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
- 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
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
- London Theatre Size Comparison (from 1960)
- 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
- 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
- TV History Related Sites
- UK TV Adverts
- Zamzar free online file conversion
- Zero G Corporation
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