Capability · Media production, with Lonsdale St Studio
Broadcast quality. Government ready.
Video, live streams, webinars and podcasts are how agencies explain themselves now. With our studio partner Lonsdale St Studio, we produce them to broadcast standard and to every government requirement, from captions and Auslan to the Style Manual, through one accountable team.
At a glance
- For
- Agencies and organisations that need video, live events, webinars and podcasts produced well and on time
- What you get
- Studios, on-location crews, editing, captions and reporting, managed by one accountable lead
- Where
- Three studios and a master control room on Lonsdale Street, Braddon, or at your location
- Turnaround
- Professionally produced video typically delivered 48 to 72 hours after recording
A minister's announcement, a public webinar, an all-staff town hall, a podcast series explaining a new service: more and more of how government communicates happens on camera and on a stream. Audiences expect it to look and sound like television, and agencies need it to meet accessibility, branding and records obligations every time.
Serata leads the work: planning, communications and scripting, accessible content, and contract management. Lonsdale St Studio, one of Canberra's longest-running production houses, brings the studios, crews, kit and post-production. You deal with one team.
Why it matters
If it isn't accessible, it isn't finished.
Trust is visual now
People judge a message by how it is delivered. Poor sound or a dropped stream undermines even the best policy.
Everyone has to be able to follow
Captions, transcripts, Auslan and audio description are part of the production, not an afterthought.
Live has no second take
Live events need redundancy built in: backup connections, rehearsals and a crew that has done it hundreds of times.
Content has to keep working
A recording should become on-demand video, social clips and a transcript for the record, not a one-off.
Produced like television. Delivered to government standard.
The studios
Three studios on Lonsdale Street.
Purpose-built for broadcast, sound-suppressed with triple-sheeted walls, and designed to run individually or as one.
Studio A · 110 m²
Large panels, high-end broadcast and hybrid audience events for up to 40 people.
Studio B · 40 m²
Regular panels, interviews, updates and photography.
Studio C · 20 m²
Podcasting, voice-over and audio recording.
Green room
A modular staging space for presenters and guests, with live feeds from every studio.
Built for live
Master control room
4K video switching, broadcast audio mixing, podcast mixers and IP camera control, all networked and able to be run remotely.
Redundant connections
Fibre to the premises with a dedicated 1000/1000 Mbps streaming line, a second independent line for failover, and 5G as a last resort.
Cinema-grade cameras
Sony FX cinema cameras with Fujinon cine lenses, colour- and audio-matched across multiple cameras.
Post-production
Eight edit stations for editing, animation, graphics, audio and mastering, using Adobe Creative Cloud and DaVinci Resolve.
On location
The studio comes to you.
Three fly-away live streaming kits and on-location video crews take broadcast production to your venue, office or site.
Streaming to any platform
Encoders that stream to Teams, Zoom, Vimeo, YouTube and social platforms, with slides and video switched in live.
Three cameras, one operator
Remote-controlled cameras, a video switcher and audio mixing, run by a single operator for leaner crews.
Its own internet
A bonded 5G array that bypasses venue networks wherever there is 4G or 5G coverage.
Remote studios in your office
Meeting rooms retrofitted as remote-controlled studios, operated from the Braddon control room, with lights, cameras, recording and streaming run remotely.
How we produce
Brief to broadcast, with sign-off at every stage.
A shared production timeline shows every task, owner and dependency, so you can see where your project is and approve each milestone.
Plan
Kick-off, scope, storyboards and scripting, location scouting, risk assessment and scheduling.
Set up
Platforms, presenter links and audience access configured and tested, with a full rehearsal for live events.
Produce
Studio or on-location production by a crew inducted into a production safety plan.
Edit
Editing, animation and broadcast graphics, signed off at draft 1, draft 2 and final.
Make it accessible
Captions, transcripts, Auslan and audio description, then colour and audio mastering.
Deliver and report
Files and on-demand links in the formats you need, plus attendance, Q&A and engagement reports.
Accessible and on brand
Every production meets the standard.
WCAG 2.1 AA
Content produced to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines at level AA, with live and post captions, open and closed.
Auslan and audio description
Auslan interpreting and audio-described versions, planned into the production from the start.
Australian Government standards
The Digital Service Standard, the Australian Government Style Manual and branding guidelines applied and checked at each stage.
Advice and training
Practical advice and training so your teams can make accessible content part of every production.
Our studio partner
Serata and Lonsdale St Studio.
Lonsdale St Studio is the studio home of Newcast, an award-winning Canberra video production company based on Lonsdale Street in Braddon. For more than a decade it has produced stories for some of Canberra's most recognised brands and institutions, from television advertising and documentaries to live streams, webinars, podcasts and corporate video, and it has run studio and live-streaming services for Commonwealth agencies.
Its team includes producers with senior careers in national television and government communications, works to Screen Producers Australia quality and safety standards, and holds baseline clearances. Serata leads the engagement, communications, scripting, accessibility and contract management; Lonsdale St Studio provides the studios, crews, equipment and post-production.
Sustainable
Studio power fully carbon offset, Australian suppliers wherever possible, and equipment recycled responsibly at end of life.
Local
Canberra-based teams, local staff and contractors, and support for community causes.
Scalable
Multi-skilled crews and a bench of specialist contractors that scale with each project.
Ways to start
Book a studio, a crew or a series.
Each is quoted and scheduled on its own, with a dedicated account manager for ongoing work.
A studio session
A podcast, interview, panel or broadcast event in Braddon, with crew, captions and same-week delivery.
A live or hybrid event
Streaming, recording and reporting for a conference, webinar or town hall, in our studio or at your venue.
A video series
Planned, scripted and produced content for a campaign or program, with accessible versions for every channel.
A studio in your office
A meeting room turned into a remote-controlled studio, operated for you from our control room.
What do you need to say on camera?
Tell us about the message and the audience. We'll plan the production, the platforms and the accessible versions with you.