Test Card Studios · Live, sketch & online
Multi-camera live specials, online broadcasts and social media sketches. From a 1,000 seat theatre to millions of views online and a virtual pub that broke a Guinness World Record.
Comedians trust us with new material and unfinished sets. We've cut it for broadcast, for the room, and for a feed that scrolls past everything else.
A full-length live special shot across two nights at The Leicester Square Theatre, cut from five cameras for a clean, broadcast-standard edit. Multiple performances give the edit room to pick the best take of every bit without losing the feel of a live room.
Filmed in Hackney, a full comedy special built the same way: multi-camera coverage, a live room, and an edit that stays out of the way of the material.
Got a night worth filming? Work-in-progress sets, club nights, a full theatre special — we bring the cameras, mix the sound and cut the edit. Get in touch to talk dates, or see what it costs before you commit to anything.
An online comedy night we ran through the pandemic with comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean, broadcasting live stand-up from a virtual pub straight into people's homes when every real one was shut. What started as one lockdown show became a run of monthly events with some of the biggest names in UK comedy.
It set a Guinness World Record for the largest online pub, won a Chortle Award as a Legend of Lockdown, and raised over £150,000 for The Trussell Trust food bank charity along the way.
A real bright spot in lockdown-era comedy. The Guardiancovidarms.com →
We produce, shoot and edit your material, bringing your visions to life. We can also source locations, casts and special effects.
Wide, mids and reactions running together so a special can be cut for pace and coverage without ever going back for a pickup.
The cut lands on the laugh, not before it. Trims come from the room's real reaction, not a guess at what should land.
Acts testing new sets need someone who won't leak a bit or misrepresent a room that didn't go their way. That trust is the job.
Sketches and online broadcast content are shot and captioned for a feed that scrolls past everything else in under a second.
Multi-mic live sound that keeps every line intelligible under a genuine, unpredictable crowd.
The same discipline whether it's a single theatre stage or a broadcast reaching thousands of people at once, live.
