Links

Contacts

• Production Companies in the UK (via KFTV)

Freelance

• A Guide To Using A Drone In London | Londonist

• How to improve your drone filming

• Broadcast Intelligence

• Budget & Cost Manager Templates to download (DPP)

• Camera training

• Casting (US)

• Screenskills

• Drone Photography Resource Guide

• Early Bird – BECTU

• Film & TV Charity

• Filming locations

• Fixed term employment contracts GOV.UK

• Format Bible Template Generator

• GDPR (Information Commissioners Office)

• Getting into TV (RTS)

• 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

• Media Parents

• Online Portfolio

• Production Budgets – Digital Production Partnership

• Production guides | eyefish.tv

• Production Pouch – production documents holder

• Raising Films | Making Babies, Making Films, Making Change

• Sign in to your personal tax account – GOV.UK

• Tax Guide for Freelancers – BECTU

• Telly Mums Facebook page

• 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

Legal & Rights

• Using Meta assets - Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Messenger

• Instagram – clearing for TV

Broadcasters

• 4Producers

• BBC – TV – Production – Commissioning

• BBC Editorial Guidelines

• BBC Opening/Closing Credits (pdf)

• BBC Technical Standards

• Channel4 – Fair Dealing Guidelines

• Channel4 – Producer’s Handbook

• Channel4 – Tech Specs

• Discovery

• ITV Producer’s Guidelines | Commissioning

• Netflix Production Guidelines

• Sky One Producer Guidelines

• Sky Production Pack

Facilities & Services

• Airalo - global eSim

• 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

• 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

• Insurance for freelancers

• 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

• Path - Remote Production Platform, from Ionoco

• 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

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 London

• Hampshire Street Studio

• Holborn Studios – London

• Kentish Town Studios

• LH2 Studios, 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 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 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

• 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

• 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

• Website Planet - Image Compression

• Zamzar free online file conversion

• Zero G Corporation