A camera in the wrong place changes the service.
Most sectors want the production to be noticed. This one is the opposite. If the congregation is aware of a camera operator moving during communion, or a tripod is sitting where somebody normally kneels, the streaming has cost the service something it should not have.
So we plan around the building and around the liturgy. Locked-off positions and long lenses where we can. Nothing attached to stonework. Movement agreed with whoever is leading, and none of it during the parts of the service where movement is wrong.
The other half is the people watching. Someone at home who cannot get to church should be able to follow the service, not observe it from the back of the nave. That means starting before the procession, showing the words at a readable size, and audio clear enough for a congregation where hearing loss is common.
We have delivered extensively in the faith sector under agreements that prevent us naming the organisations involved. That is worth stating plainly rather than leaving this page reading as capability only: the work has been done, repeatedly, and the reason it is not listed is contractual rather than a gap in experience.
How we work in a church
The service comes first.
Questions clergy ask.
Will your crew be visible during the service?
As little as possible. Cameras go on locked-off positions or long lenses from the back where we can, operators stay still and stay quiet, and nobody moves during prayer, communion or a reading. If a position means somebody in the congregation is watching a camera operator instead of the altar, it is the wrong position.
What will the DAC or fabric committee need to approve?
The fixing method, the cable routes and the camera positions, in practice. What they want to see is that nothing is drilled or attached to the fabric, that cables are run and matted rather than taped to stonework, and that no position blocks an aisle or a sightline. Send us what they have already stipulated and we design the rig to it rather than asking for exceptions.
How do you handle music and organ?
A clean feed from the desk where there is one, and properly placed microphones where there is not. Organ and choir are unforgiving on a room microphone, so this is worth planning rather than leaving to whatever the camera picks up.
Can you stream a funeral?
Yes. For funerals specifically we run a separate service at funeralstreamingne.co.uk, which is set up for the timescales and the sensitivity that work needs.
Can the congregation at home take part rather than just watch?
That is the aim. Readable service text or hymn words on screen, a stream that starts before the procession rather than at the first hymn, and audio clear enough for someone with hearing loss. Watching is not the same as taking part, and the difference is mostly production detail.
Do you provide captions and BSL?
Yes, planned in from the start. It matters more than average in this sector because congregations skew older and hearing loss is common. Our accessibility page covers how it works.
Our building has no usable internet. Is that a problem?
No, and it is the norm in old buildings with thick walls. Bonded 4G and 5G plus Starlink travel with us, so a church with no line is a planning detail rather than a reason it cannot be streamed.
Service you want to stream?
Tell us the building and the service and we will tell you what can be done without the production being part of it.