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About starlova

Audiovisual production built around the people who run it

A Gloucester production company working across broadcast studios and live events since 2014, with a small crew that plans carefully and explains its decisions plainly.

How starlova came to be

starlova began in 2014 on Commercial Road in Gloucester, with a simple aim: make studio and live production calmer for the people running it. We cover design, cameras, lighting and sound. We also write down what we learn.

The company grew out of experience in television operations and live broadcast scheduling, where most delays trace back to decisions made before anyone switched a camera on. A cable run that was never drawn up, a talkback path nobody tested, a lighting plot that ignored the lens. We set out to deal with those problems at the planning stage.

Early work was studio layouts and sound for modest productions. Over time the same clients asked us to look after camera control, lighting and live crewing as well, so those skills sit under one roof today, with each specialist still answering for their own area.

We work in writing wherever we can. Drawings, signal lists and run sheets are agreed before kit arrives, so engineers, producers and organisers all read the same plan. That habit has saved more time than any single piece of equipment.

Our guides on audiovisual workflows come from the same place. When a handover keeps causing trouble across several productions, we write it up in practical terms so other teams can borrow the method without hiring us.

The crew is deliberately small. Helen Marsh leads projects and studio planning, and the people who design your system are the people who turn up on the day. You know who to call, and they know your rig.

How we work

How a small Gloucester crew settled on its way of working

None of our habits arrived all at once. Each came from a production where something was missing: a drawing, a rehearsal, a clear owner. Taken together they explain why we work the way we do and what clients can expect from a project with us.

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Today2026

  1. Our first projects showed that problems found on paper cost almost nothing, while the same problems found on the day cost a great deal. So every job begins with layout, signal flow and a written scope before any hardware is chosen or hired.

  2. Clients once had to coordinate separate suppliers for sound, lighting and cameras. We brought those skills together so that lighting plots respect camera needs and audio paths fit the studio plan, with one point of contact.

  3. After a few live events where the first run was the real one, we began building line checks and run-throughs into every schedule. The time is agreed in advance, so nobody is surprised by it.

  4. Questions from production teams kept repeating, so we began publishing practical guides on ingest, review and delivery. The same short, plain method now shapes our workflow consultancy and our handover notes to clients.

Client feedback

What production teams have said about working with us

These comments come from engineers, producers and organisers we have worked with. They describe how projects felt to run, in the clients' own words, without scores or counts.

Get in touch

Talk to us about your production

Tell us what you are planning, a studio, a live event or a workflow that needs tidying, and we will reply with questions and a sensible first step.

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