Now in our fortieth year of operation - founded in
1986 at the Red Road in Glasgow, on the very grounds where the old
Caledonian Railway Company once ruled the rails, The
Caledonian Television Company™ is a full service video production
company specifically geared to the
needs of the 99%+ of all Scottish businesses that are Sole Traders,
Micro-businesses or SMEs - We make real television programmes for real-world
businesses.
Our roots are in broadcasting,
which is why everything we do is done to UK broadcast standards. We work
to those standards (both technical and operational) in order to
protect your business interests. - Addressing the common problems of
poor programme quality, inadequate project management, legal, copyright
and technical risk; all typically associated with using
unqualified 'semi pros' and other non-specialists.
Built on traditional
values and heritage; we're proud to be a small, unpretentious,
family business. That's why we actually favour enquiries
from genuinely small businesses, tradespeople and community groups
over large corporates.
We also provide services for
select news and documentary makers; general production management and
assistance, programme research, scripting, compliance auditing, video
editing, crew and technical consultancy.
PROFESSIONAL CREWS. We only use crew who have
successfully studied TV or Film production at a legitimate UK
Academic Institution and/or trained with a major UK
broadcaster such as the BBC or one of the ITV companies.
The Caledonian Television
Company™ is still owned and run by its founder, Matt Quinn; an
ITV-trained cameraman - and former College Lecturer in
Television Production - with over forty-six years of genuine
broadcast experience..
PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT. We shoot on real
broadcast TV cameras - NOT DSLRs! We edit to meet EBU broadcast
standards for topical content on full edit suites. And naturally,
we use traditional broadcast lighting and sound.
Your professional video partners...
We are legitimate
masters of our trade - broadcast trained and properly qualified
people; dedicated video production specialists working
collaboratively with the Creative, Marketing, Design, PR and
Training industries and directly with business owners and their
in-house teams, to provide a complete, fully
project-managed, script to screen video production
service.
We can take you from initial idea to a programme which is legally safe
and technically fit to be shown anywhere from YouTube, broadcast on TV
or shown in a commercial cinema. If a 'one stop' solution is what you
need - we can provide that. If a 'crew only' service is what you need -
we're happy to provide that too. - What we never do is
pretend to be what we're not; which is why we strongly reject the 'Jack
of All Trades' mentality.
All of our work is covered as
standard by strict, legally binding non-disclosure policies that provide
you with full security over your project. From the
initial consultation on, you can be sure that all discussions are in
strict confidence and that your sensitive commercial information is safe
with us. - We also work proactively to protect your intellectual
property and that of others; for example ensuring that issues such as
copyright and advertising codes are properly addressed.
We don't believe in giving
anyone the hard sell. However, we do encourage people to contact
us as early as possible in the planning stages of their project. This
allows us to advise and plan well in advance and identify cost
savings; avoiding the situation where projects and facilities booked at
the eleventh hour create unnecessary cost-drivers and/or project
risk. - An informal chat or email exchange with us costs and
commits you to nothing. It's also worth taking into account that
our availability tends to be fairly limited - so the sooner we start to
talk about your project, the better.
