What is live Event production?
Live production is about much more than just recording footage. It’s about creating a compelling live show, initial planning and designing of the event, vision mixing live cameras, rolling VT’s, pushing graphics, reacting to real time events and having a backup plan for the backup plan. With over two decades of live production experience, Groovy Gecko’s global team of producers and technicians have created live programming in multiple locations around the world for some of the biggest brands.
What industries do we cover?
As one of the leading live event production companies in the UK, our team has experience working with a wide range of industries, including music festivals, conferences, corporate events, and more. No matter what type of event you’re planning, we have the expertise and resources to make it a happen. Whether you’re looking for a large live event video production for an international conference or a smaller scale live event production, Groovy Gecko is your go-to top quality live production company in the UK and internationally.
What’s our process? (Pre-production and equipment)
During the initial project scoping, we start by discussing the creative aspects of your live event and identifying the technical components needed to execute your vision. Once we understand what you’re looking to produce and the budget available, we will work closely with you to tailor a production package that will best deliver this.
Next, we’ll jump into pre-production by building the kit and crew needed to execute your live event. We’ll keep you up to date on our progress, checking in regularly as the creative for the project develops. When we reach the day for the live production, we’ll be there on the ground to provide coordination, management, troubleshooting, and problem-solving so we can deliver a world class live event video production.
Our clients
Our live production team give clients the confidence and support they need when developing multi-camera production projects. Regardless of scale, complexity, or location, Groovy Gecko provides clients with world class live productions, ranging from 100+ camera productions for esports activations to multi-camera on location shoots to capture live events.
case study examples.
Production Pricing Packages.
BASE
- 1 broadcast camera shoot
- Live stream management
- Audio desk with lav mics and handheld mics and in-ear comms
- Primary & Backup encoding equipment
- LiveU network connectivity
- Standard lighting package
- Crew of 1 camera operator, 1 sound engineer, 1 streaming engineer and 1 production assistant
PLUS
- 2 broadcast camera shoot
- Live stream management & VMIX (pre-recorded content playout) management
- Audio desk with lav mics and handheld mics and in-ear comms
- Primary & Backup encoding equipment
- LiveU network connectivity
- Standard lighting package
- Crew of 2 camera operators, 1 vision mixer, 1 sound engineer, 1 streaming engineer and 1 production assistant
PRO
- 3 broadcast camera shoot
- Live stream management & VMIX (pre-recorded content playout) management
- Audio desk with lav mics and handheld mics and in-ear comms
- Primary & Backup encoding equipment
- LiveU network connectivity
- Standard lighting package
- Crew of 3 camera operators, 1 vision mixer, 1 sound engineer, 1 streaming engineer and 1 production assistant
VENUE
- Full day rate
- Use our in-house filming venue
we can provide:
PRE-PRODUCTION
Planning, budgeting, graphic design, scripting, and consulting.
LOCATION SCOUTING
Venue selection and permitting.
TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT
Including workflow engineering.
EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT
Sourcing and management of all production equipment.
CREW MANAGEMENT
Production crewing, including technical and creative teams.
TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS
Live streaming, encoding, and captioning.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Design and integration of pre-produced video and graphic assets.
remote production.
In an ever-changing world we can help you deliver your live regardless of current restrictions on travel, gatherings or presenters being pinged shortly before lives. Our Presenter packs help us deliver both full end to end productions virtually or fill in the missing piece of the production jigsaw. From single camera shoots to multi camera broadcasts, we can supply specialist camera equipment, vision mixing, sound and multi skilled operators for virtual productions ensuring that we can always deliver something that feels highly produced rather than a streamed Zoom call. Our technology allows for:
- Multiple simultaneous global virtual presenters and guests
- No installation required, presenters and guests only need Chrome installed
- Personalised link for each participant to initialise connection
- Onboarding of all presenter with an engineer to optimise camera shots and quality
- Presenters can deliver and manage their own slide decks
We help with Venue sourcing and Connectivity.
As an addition to our live streaming services, Groovy Gecko also benefits from a satellite downlinking facility, with connections to BT Tower & NY waterfront. We also have a suite of LiveU units which can provide connectivity on-site no matter where you are. The broad range of signal acquisition options allows us to downlink content from anywhere in the world without needing to be on site. Once we have the feed at our London hub, we can then deliver the streams to a host of platforms including social media platforms or our LPS.
LiveU offers a solution where internet connectivity is limited onsite. Particularly useful for outside broadcasts, or those on the move, the unit works by bonding cellular data to create an upstream internet connection which transmits video content back to our London hub and can also act as a standalone internet connection in ‘data bridge’ mode.